Thread: Slacker 3.0 released in the US!

Well Slacker fans here it is! I have to say this is a great update. They have completely redone the UI in this version. It IMHO is much better looking. So far no glitches. They seemed to have fixed the issue with the sound going quiet when you would open another 3rd party app. Now back to the UI, it looks much more like a droid or Iphone interface. With Slacker being one of the top rated radio apps for Blackberry this was a much needed UI update.

One thing to be aware of now is that if you want to take advantage of the new wireless station caching(or even wired), you have to upgrade to a paid Slacker Plus account. So if you don't want to pay for a Plus account and need station caching you might want to stay with version 2. Below is the full list of new features in 3.0.

Slacker Radio 3.0 for BlackBerry smartphones:

• Updated interface
• Faster application startup time
• Significantly smaller application size
• Improved touch interface for BlackBerry Storm
• Greatly improved battery life
• New settings menu options
• Tabbed info view for lyrics, reviews and biographies
• Context Aware - click a highlighted artist name in a text message or email to enable direct launch of a related Slacker station
• Create custom stations based on artists or songs
• View album art and photos
• Rate songs as favorites
• Ban the songs and artists you don't like

Slacker Radio 3.0 with Slacker Radio Plus:

• Wireless station caching - listen to Slacker Radio without a Wi-Fi or mobile network connection
• Greatly improved battery life on cached station playback
• Auto Station Refresh - effortlessly updates cached stations overnight
• Unlimited song skipping
• Ad-free listening
• Complete song lyrics
• Unlimited song requests for creating stations

• Download from Slacker.com from your mobile phone

I wish they would add the A/V controls on BT... That's what keeps goin back to Pandora!!!
Posted via mobile device

Of all the Internet Streaming stations I still like last.fm the best. Their pre-alpha was horrible. I'll try Slacker 3.0. Hopefully it will macth the artist matching depth of last.fm!

Originally Posted by jasonfyc

I wish they would add the A/V controls on BT... That's what keeps goin back to Pandora!!!
Posted via mobile device

What do you mean? Bluetooth functions the same with both apps. Only difference for me was that sound quality was better for me on Slacker.

Originally Posted by billandrewsjr

Of all the Internet Streaming stations I still like last.fm the best. Their pre-alpha was horrible. I'll try Slacker 3.0. Hopefully it will macth the artist matching depth of last.fm!

If you listen to less mainstream and more underground, then last fm is still the way to go, unfortunately. My problem with them is sometimes I get random songs thrown in that are WAYYY OFF - like an electronica song thrown into my rock station haha! They also tend to repeat songs more often.

For me, Slacker is the best despite the free version having limited skips - Pandora limits theirs too so... The only thing that steered me away from it on the Blackberry was the huge size of the app compared to Pandora. Guess that changed now. Anyone know the new size???

I have used slacker daily for a few months now... I love it, but the fact that they are taking away the ability to cache is a no go for me... I love the new layout of the new version, but I need caching. Looks like I won't be able to use it now and have to just play the library I already have... that or go back to the 2.x version.

Kind of a waste of an update if you ask me

ok so what happened to station caching.
keep getting an error:17:

mike

Originally Posted by mikeb252

ok so what happened to station caching.
keep getting an error:17:

mike

Unfortunately caching is only available on the paid version.

Yeah that stinks.
downgrade....downgrade.....downgrade:aargh4:

I have station caching on the free version I'm using. There's a 14 day free wireless caching on the 3.0 version which I used earlier today. I listening to cache station as I'm typing this.

So where is the archive for Slacker V2, so we can go back?

BDragon,
so it sounds like you are caching with the 14 day free trial.
Right?

Yea. The 14day trial seems to be for the wireless caching tho. Guess I'll find out after the trial is up.

I just upgraded Slacker on my 9530 storm and I am doing a cache update right now. Caching seems to be working for me. I do not have wifi

Ok, so I am either really Fing dumb or my phone just hates Slacker....

I am running 2.0.91 and trying to firgure out how to get 3.0...
How...?

Originally Posted by TheOnlyJrod

Ok, so I am either really Fing dumb or my phone just hates Slacker....

I am running 2.0.91 and trying to firgure out how to get 3.0...
How...?

Delete 2 and then 3 will install. At least that's what I had to do. Not a fan of the no caching for non paying listeners though.

Originally Posted by Mustang02

Delete 2 and then 3 will install. At least that's what I had to do. Not a fan of the no caching for non paying listeners though.

Delete 2.0 and then HOW will 3.0 install?

Go to Appworld? (I thought it was not there yet)
Go to Slacker.com?


How?

Originally Posted by TheOnlyJrod

Delete 2.0 and then HOW will 3.0 install?

Go to Appworld? (I thought it was not there yet)
Go to Slacker.com?


How?

Visit the link above in the OP on your Blackberry

Originally Posted by TheOnlyJrod

Delete 2.0 and then HOW will 3.0 install?

Go to Appworld? (I thought it was not there yet)
Go to Slacker.com?


How?

Per the original post, Slacker Radio . App world is junk.

Don't mind me, I was tripping some crazy retard shit yesterday. I figured it out.

Thank you...

Posted from my BlackBerry using BerryBlab

hopefully this is a decent update because Slacker was starting to seem real sluggish for me. I was almost considering going to Pandora, but I will give this version a go before I go