[AccessD] OT: Slacker radio

Darryl Collins Darryl.Collins at coles.com.au
Wed Mar 4 18:44:25 CST 2009


Yeah, you could set up a proxy to sneak around it I am sure, but the whole principle of it pee'd me off so much.  No wonder we all love those Russian music sites.




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They check your IP address?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Darryl Collins wrote:
> I did, but it only works in the US... :-/
>
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
> at Beach Access Software
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> Try Pandora. You can define your own stations.
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> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Collins
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Slacker radio
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> I used to use, love and pay for Lauchcast Plus, Yahoo's customised internet
> radio.  It worked by you rating songs, artists, genres etc and then it would
> play you stuff based on that select and that others whom liked your choices
> had chosen.  It had no commercials, no DJ's, unlimited skipping and scalable
> ratings - was brilliant and worked really really well.  Naturally Yahoo
> killed it off the other day and replaced it with CBS Radio - which is not
> customisable, has lots of adverts and very limited skipping - Basically, it
> is rubbish - don't even bother with it.
>
> Now I use Jango (www.jango.com) - which has a slightly annoying 'social
> network' side to it (I loathe facebook so social networking is not my thing)
> but you can ignore most of that without bother.  So far has proven to be a
> good subsitiute.
>
> Jango is fully customisable, free, no commercials, unlimited skipping, plays
> in any browser, has a broad and varied music library - I found most of the
> stuff I was interested in, and (so far) has been painless and fun to use.
>
> For portable music, I still love my iPod - not the best quality audio
> reproduction around, but for sheer ease of use nothing comes close.
>
> my 2 cents
> Cheers
> Darryl
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 6:28 AM
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> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Slacker radio
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> A friend of mine just told me about Slacker internet radio.  I have started
> playing with it and kinda like it.  They have a pretty expensive "mp3
> player" called G2 which allows you to send songs to the G2 that you hear
> while listening on the "radio" to the MP3 and then play them away from your
> desk.
>
> Does anyone out there use Slacker and / or the G2 player?  Comments?
>
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