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Free Slacker Radio app released for Apple iPhone, iPod touch

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 09:08 AM EST

Slacker, Inc. today announced the availability of the free Slacker Mobile application for iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch at the Apple iTunes App Store.

iPhone and iPod touch users in the U.S. can now have a personalized listening and music discovery experience that lets anyone listen to over 100 Slacker stations, over 10,000 artist stations, or a nearly unlimited number of the listener's own custom-created stations.

For the first time, iPhone and iPod touch owners can take advantage of Slacker's unique features for the ultimate in music discovery, such as artist biographies and album reviews, station fine tuning, "peek ahead" song previews and custom artist stations. In addition to marking songs as favorites, listeners can also ban songs and artists to create perfect custom radio stations on their iPhones.

The Slacker music service enables listeners to access personal radio stations using their iPhone or iPod and hear their favorite music without having to manage playlists, research new artists or transfer music from their home computers. The Slacker Mobile application works with the free Slacker Basic Radio service, along with Slacker Radio Plus and Slacker Premium Radio subscription offerings.

"Our primary goal is to deliver the best listening experience in as many places as possible," said Jonathan Sasse, SVP of Marketing for Slacker, in the press release. "We believe that the release of Slacker Radio delivers the best radio and music discovery application available for the iPhone."

Slacker Mobile for iPhone features:
• Free music library featuring millions of songs
• High-quality stereo playback from any wireless connection
• Over 100 professionally programmed genre stations
• Create custom stations based on artists or songs
• Fine tune stations on-the-fly to play more of the music you like
• View artist biographies and photos
• View album art and reviews
• "Peek Ahead" artist and album preview
• Pause and skip songs
• Rate songs as favorites
• Ban the songs and artists you don't like

The Slacker Personal Radio Mobile application for iPhone and iPod touch is available immediately as a free download via the Apple iTunes App Store here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.]