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Slacker G2 8 GB 40-Station Personal Radio Player | 
| Brand: Slacker
Category: CE
Buy New: $249.99
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 6260
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Size: 8 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 0.5 x 2.1 x 3.4
MPN: 90260008
Model: 90260008
UPC: 989076576278
EAN: 0989076576278
ASIN: B001GIOQBO
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks
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| Features:
| • | 8 GB capacity for 40 Slacker stations, 4,000 radio songs, and 3 GB of personal files | | • | Up to 15 hours of music on a single charge | | • | 2.4-inch color TFT display with 320 x 240 resolution | | • | Supported audio formats: MP3, WMA, and AAC | | • | 1-year limited warranty |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Slacker G2 plays all of your personalized Slacker Radio stations on one sleek, ultra-portable player. Whether you listen to one of more than 100 expert-programmed Slacker stations or custom stations that you create, the music evolves as you listen. New songs are personally selected for you and automatically loaded on the Slacker G2 so your radio stations are always ready to play wherever you go.  The Slacker G2 plays all of your personalized Slacker Radio stations on one sleek player. Click to enlarge. | Personalized Radio The Slacker G2 plays all of your Slacker Radio stations on one sleek, ultra-portable player. Whether you listen to one of more than 100 expert-programmed Slacker stations or custom stations that you create, the music evolves to match your tastes as you listen. Effortless
Create your own unique radio experience with Slacker Personal Radio. You know what you like--Slacker knows how to deliver it. Slacker's Internet radio offering is built on the expertise of DJs from all over the country, and just by listening, you make Slacker even better at delivering the music that you love.  Album reviews and artist bios come with every song and are delivered right to your Slacker G2. Click to enlarge. |  At just 13.5 millimeters deep, the Slacker G2 is ultra-portable (pictured in case). Click to enlarge. | Music Discovery
Perfect your listening experience using Slacker's exclusive personalization tools. With the ? and ? buttons, tell us which songs are your favorites and which you never want to hear again. Fine-tune any station to get more hits or more fringe; request older artists over new. Album reviews and artist bios come with every song and are delivered right to your Slacker G2. Advanced Radio Clocks
Slacker DJs operate using a proven method of picking and mixing songs to deliver excellent musical variety that complements your tastes. This patent-pending DJ technology is embedded in the Slacker Portable to create the very best radio stations. The more you listen, the better it performs to deliver new music you'll love. Slacker Basic Radio: Free Take the world's first-ever personal radio player with you for nonstop, customized music wherever you go. On the Slacker Portable, store thousands of songs for repeated listening, or connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot to get new music instantly. With hours of battery life, the Slacker Portable is built to go where you go. To offer your favorite music for free, the Slacker Basic Radio service might play one to two ads an hour. That's significantly fewer ads than traditional radio, so you can relax and easily enjoy your favorite music. Plus, it's all completely legal. Slacker has unique licensing agreements with thousands of record labels to give you free access to a variety of music. By working directly with the record labels, Slacker gets the latest content to ensure your radio stations always stay current. Upgrade to Slacker Premium Radio If you want even more out of the service, pay just $7.50 per month for Slacker Premium, which puts you in control. What's the difference between Slacker Basic and Slacker Premium? First, Premium subscribers can avoid the ads that played in the Basic service. So, it's an ad-free listening experience. Next, Premium subscribers have access to Slacker Request Song, which lets you add your favorite artists' songs to your station. Then, use Slacker's fine-tuning controls to indicate how often those requested songs should play. Third, Premium subscribers have no limits on the number of songs they skip, letting listeners create the exact music experience they want. (Basic listeners are limited to six skips per hour, per station.) And fourth, as a Premium subscriber, you can save your favorite songs with the touch of a button. Saved songs are added to your library so that you can listen to them any time. You also can save your favorites to your PC using the Slacker Software Player. It's the ultimate personal radio experience. Slacker Premium Radio at a glance:
- Just $7.50 per month
- No advertisements
- Request songs
- Unlimited skipping of songs
- Save favorites
Slacker Radio: It's Everywhere With the Slacker G2, get easy access to millions of songs from thousands of artists wherever you are. All of the music you love is automatically delivered to your Slacker G2 at Wi-Fi hotspots or through your PC via USB. You can listen to your music anytime, even when not connected. Pocket DJ
The same personalized listening experience you love on Slacker.com is available wherever you go on the ultra-portable Slacker G2. Slacker DJs hand pick songs for your player and you can use the ? and ? buttons on the Slacker G2 to further customize your stations. The more you listen, the better the music gets. Refresh On the Go
The Slacker G2 gives you uninterrupted access to your music wherever you are. Thousands of songs are stored on the Slacker G2 to fill up all of your personalized radio stations. That means you can listen to your stations absolutely anywhere. The Slacker G2 can automatically add new music at hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. Each time you connect, songs that were hand-picked by Slacker DJs are added to your device. Plus, you can select new stations for your Slacker G2 on any PC or Mac with an Internet connection.  Includes earphones, carrying case with sport clip, power adapter, USB cable, quick start guide, and preloaded Slacker stations. Click to enlarge. | Built-in MP3 Player Already have your own personal music library? The Slacker G2 features a built-in MP3 player. You can store up to 1 GB of MP3s on the 4 GB/25-station Slacker Portable, or 3 GB of MP3s on the 8 GB/40-station Slacker Portable. Then, listen whenever and wherever you want. Check out all Slacker Portables. On-The-Go Playlists
Create personalized playlists with your MP3s using the intuitive controls on the Slacker G2. Enjoy the favorites you own in any order you want. As a Slacker Premium Radio subscriber, you also can save your favorite radio songs and play them whenever you like. Manage your MP3s
Use your Slacker G2 with popular applications, such as Windows Media Player, to manage your music collection and transfer your favorite MP3 files from your PC to your portable player. What's in the Box
Slacker G2 8 GB 40-Station Personal Radio Player, Slacker adjustable earphones, carrying case with sport clip, power adapter, USB cable, quick start guide, preloaded Slacker stations.
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| Customer Reviews:
Mobile Music Made Personal & Wonderfully Unpredictable November 15, 2008
A Thoughtful Consumer (Southern Calif)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Slacker G2 is simply awesome-a polar shift for mobile music you carry in your pocket and the service is free.
For starters...the Slacker network is a free streaming music service on your computer. They're very similar to the better known Pandora online music site. It possess a huge music library and dozens of preformatted 'station' of random, non-repeating songs in every conceivable style.If your tastes are even more eclectic, you can easily design your own personal 'station'. You can program and 'teach' the station what you like by using the 'like' and 'ban' buttons. You can even go so far as specifying you want deep cuts or just the hits.
What the G2 is,is a hand held mobile player and receiver. You select the channels you want from the Slacker network. Using a usb cable or Wifi, Slacker quickly downloads huge amounts of music-hours of music in justa few minutes. All for free! Everytime you are close to a Wifi hotspot you can hit the 'connect' button on the G2 and all your channels will be automatically 'refreshed' with new music-for free. To pay for this the website shows ads and the G2 occasionally plays an ad. The G2 lets you have up to 25 stations of different music. Just like the website you can adjust the music stream to your liking using the 'like' or 'ban' buttons. You can even 'skip' over songs you don't want to hear. The music is random and non-repeating-unless you id some songs as 'favorities'-then they are played more in the mix.
The LCD displays 1st class images of the album or artist or relative information. The battery life is about 7-11 hours depending on how long you leave the LCD lit up and how high you run the volume.
You have the option to upgrade the free service to a paid premium service. With that you can request specific songs, create an on demand 'favorites' library, no ads, and other features.
All and all the service is awesome, the G2 is awesome. It's my new favorite toy.
PS. In the spirit of full disclosure it should be known that the usb refresh feature will not work on all computers.The IP address of the G2 is 192.168.0.1 , a very popular address for routers,modems, and some programs.So it is possible that there may be a conflict between the G2 and your devices. I understand that Macs could have a problem with the usb refresh feature also.If all else fails you just use Wifi to refresh-no big deal.There are fixes and work-arounds for this, check the Slacker website forums to find out more.
Almost there November 6, 2008
Jmark2001 (Florida)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have been using this for two weeks now and I have to give Slacker a "B" grade for providing a new way of getting fresh music on a regular basis. Slacker is an mp3 player that automatically downloads thousands of songs over wi-fi from the Slacker service. You can create up to 25 "stations" and the station's playlists are refined according to your decisions to keep or ban a song (via built-in push buttons). There is no fee but you can't rewind or repeat a song. If you decide to upgrade (for 7.50$) a month, you can save songs. The pros: cd quality sound (yes). Portability, ease of use, album cover art and artist biographies. You can play the music away from the hotspot once you load up.
Cons: A large (two million songs) but quirky and uneven library of music (many major artists are missing and the ones that aren't (Stones, Beatles, Elvis) are represented by their lesser efforts. The Classical station is filled exclusively with third and fourth rate orchestras. My vocal standards station seems to be repeatedly filling itself with old Julie London recordings and very little Tony Bennett or Sinatra or Ella. I've heard one Beatles song in two weeks of listening to the sixties station. My "Ambient" station keeps downloading songs with heavy percussion. There is an awful lot of junk to wade through here. You'll be using those "skip" and "ban" buttons, trust me. Initial download is a bear. If the Slacker radio is new, you need 3-4 hours in a hotspot to load it up. After the initial download, you only need 5- 15 minutes at each refresh since the radio only replaces songs you have listened to. No news. No talk. No weather or sports. The screen scratches easily (I'm getting a shield on mine). Cost - this costs as much as an ipod touch!
The Slacker experience is somewhere between and mp3 player and a wi-fi radio. I have definitely enjoyed it and use it every day. But I'm keeping my XM radio for consistently better music, news, talk, traffic, and weather. If you love music, this will be a plus in your life but you are unlikely to make this your only music source.
The perfect device for lazy music lovers!! October 14, 2008
TeacherTeacher (Los Angeles, CA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I listen to Slacker ([...]) for free at work all day long, and over time, created 'radio' stations that I enjoy just about every single song on. So, when I received the Slacker Portable for my birthday, I was in heaven! It took one click on [...] to port my stations onto the portable, and now I can listen to my great music anywhere, anytime!
Here are a few great things about it:
1) You don't need a wireless connection or any kind of subscription for the basic music service
2) You can put your own MP3's on it, so you don't need this AND an iPod or other MP3 player
3) Very nice, lightweight, easy-to-use device with a big color screen and fantastic sound quality. (Note that it even comes with customizeable ear buds to fit your ears!)
Slacker doesn't have a video programming available currently, but hopefully that's coming soon.
Overall, really fun and useful product that delivers music right to you without your having to upload, buy, or rip your CD's to.
Awesome! This is what the ipod should have been! October 13, 2008
DigitalCzech (San Francisco, CA USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is what Apple should have done. I found that after spending hours putting music on my ipod and then thousands of dollars in downloads I get bored with my music. The Slacker Radio service is a no brainer. You simply search for artists or songs you like and Slacker creates playlists for you and they constantly update each time you charge the player or come into a wireless network. Now don't get confused. This device does not stream or need reception like a XM or Sirius player. It downloads thousands of songs onto this player and groups them into these stations. The stations were created by me or selected from a list of genre stations that Slacker supplies. Which BTW are really good. I was amazed. I got the first generation Slacker player which functionally did things really well. I actually still use it but have it as a dedicated home device plugged into my home stereo. But this new G2 player is a home run. It's small and easy to use. I listen to Electronica and Indie quite a bit but it's amazing all new bands this service has introduced me to. Plus... I love Bossanova, Jazz, Ska and other genres but I don't know the artist well... Slacker has basically allowed me to create stations based off a couple artist and they sound great. Really cool! Anyone with a ipod that has found their music getting stale should ditch it and get this device.
Perfect mobile music solution October 8, 2008
Aaron Morris (Santa Ana, CA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought one of the first generation Slacker Radios, and while it is very cool, the form factor (similar in size to an iphone) was a little too big for the gym or even walking around. The G2 is a perfect size, while still maintaining a readable screen.
In case you are new to the Slacker concept, you create your own custom radio stations by selecting artists, and Slacker provides music from those and other similar performers. You can also select from the many Slacker stations. While listening to a station, you can push a "favorite" or "ban" button so that Slacker learns your preferences.
The best part of the Slacker player is the Wi-Fi feature. Before going to bed, I plug in my Slacker Radio to charge along with my other stuff. I hit the connect button, and I'm done. The Slacker radio makes a Wi-Fi connection, and refreshes all the radio stations with new music. Everyday I start out with a newly loaded mp3 player, incrementally better suited to my musical tastes due to the use of the favorite and ban buttons. If you subscribe to the premium service, hitting the favorite button also saves a copy of the song to the player.
Obviously you can "refresh" any mp3 player through the use of playlists, but I never have that kind of time. All my other players are basically static, loaded with the music I first downloaded to them. And unlike downloading music you have slected to an mp3 player, with the Slacker you are exposed to music that you may not know or did not think to download.
For me, with no time or desire to plug my player into a computer and juggle songs in and out, the Slacker is the perfect player.
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