SLACKER!! The Best Phone Program yet

Today seems to be review day, so I am reviewing some of my favorite programs for my phone. The best one I have found so far is Slacker (can be used on most smart phones).

Slacker is pretty much a beefed up radio station player. They claim to have over a million songs with over 100 stations. There are no commercials that I have heard yet and best of all it is free (there are some pay features if you are really into it).

So what can this program do...

1. Well one of the coolest features is it will cache stations to your memory card. This does one of two things, reduces the battery use and lets you listen to music regardless of location (such as an airplane).

2. You can customize a station. With the search feature you can search specific artists, add them to your list and the station you create will play those artists, and similar music.

3. One of my favorite features is it shows you the artist and song that will be playing next. You have the ability to skip the song you are listening to and go to the next (they only give you 5 skips with the free version, you can pay for unlimited). I have found that there is really no reason to skip, I use the premade stations and they are great. I do occasionally switch stations if I am not feeling the next artist though.

4. You can ban artists. That's right. Ban them. Lets say you are listening and all of a sudden a song from Yanni comes on. You just hit a button and Bammmm!!! It will never play Yanni again.

5. You can read information about the artist, album and song as it is playing. Last night I learned that Paul McCartney did some composing of classical music and what inspired him to do it.













6. You can listen to the songs on your computer also with all of the same features. So if your computer is hooked up to your stereo, or you do a lot of computing this lets you do it form your computer.

7. Lets you know which artist will be playing when you click on that station, if you don't like it, go to a different station.

8. Pay version gives you unlimited skips, no banner ads, and create play lists of all your favorite songs.

I use this program when I work out, or walk home from the office. The quality is amazing. This is probably the best program on my phone, and probably will be for a long time.