Comments on: Slacker Radio for BlackBerry released

By: Kevinator

Kevinator — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:44:26 +0000

Tried Slacker in Canada using a valid U.S. zip code (nothing to lose) – it didn’t work!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:01:58 +0000

Sorry for my confusion, but is there a charge for using this? I know the majority of us have unlimited everything for our BB’s…but I guess I’m just confused.

By: Ruthy

Ruthy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:43:38 +0000

I waz soo looking forward to having this app on my beautiful bold. After freezing my point multiple times and re-installing it again……………IT WORKS!!! I love it!!!!

By: Andy Bernard

Andy Bernard — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:55:48 +0000

Anyone using this over EDGE? I’m curious if it’s worth using this on my Curve 8310.

By: jose

jose — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:31:48 +0000

Downloaded last night on my Bold and it works great. commercials between every couple of songs kinda sucks, but it’s free so can’t complain. Love the audio quality, and album art. Awesome app for any bb. Ex Iphone user and honestly I missed Pandora, but not now. Keep it up Slacker.

By: kanebb

kanebb — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:00:30 +0000

this joint hot i assumed it wouldnt work with bluetooth headsets and it does sweet

By: Michael Bettiol

Michael Bettiol — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:26:20 +0000

@Bla1ze

I was the one who said it looks like you can enter a valid zip code to get Slacker to work outside of the US. And guess what? I live outside of the US and am at this very moment enjoying listening to Slacker on my Bold.

Fancy that.

By: likeabite

likeabite — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:30:37 +0000

RELEASE A STORM ONE NOWWW!!! lol

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:29:26 +0000

It got installed on my Blackberry Bold 4.6.215 fine, however when I try to play a station, I get a “Could not get track”. Anyone else experiencing this??

By: ryaninc

ryaninc — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:32:49 +0000

I’ve been using Slacker for a while and already have one of their portable players. But I can honestly say that this is the first app that’s made me somewhat sorry I don’t have a Blackberry anymore.

By: m.s.b.

m.s.b. — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:32:26 +0000

The Storm may not ‘officially’ be supported, but if you search the Slacker forum, you can find how to install it. Works perfectly.

By: Jeeverz

Jeeverz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:57:30 +0000

It is true, who ever said that it works with a valid US Zip was smoking crack. I installed it the morning and everything went time until when it had to buffer. It just stopped there.

cRACK!

By: Bla1ze

Bla1ze — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:33:12 +0000

@question, no OTA for device upgrades you need a WinBlows PC or a Mac running virtual windows, ie: Parallels, Bootcamp, VM Ware.

By: Bla1ze

Bla1ze — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:31:32 +0000

Who ever stated using a US zip code to get the app to work was smoking crack, it locks you out if you have a Canadian device, stupid draconian licensing BS. It checks your device to ensure that. FlyCast still rules over this based on the simple fact it allows canadian users, sure slacker is pimp and better, but until they fix it with the frak’n RIAA it’s useless to anyone outside the US.

By: question

question — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:03:21 +0000

Question: what’s the easiest way to update my Curve 8310 OS to 4.5 so that I can use an 8GB memory card with the Slacker app? I’m a Mac user, so I can’t do it through the desktop software I don’t think… Can I do it OTA?

By: GixxerJoe

GixxerJoe — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:07:10 +0000

I downloaded it and so far so good I think this may be my new favorite app! Thanks BGR for posting this and Thanks Slacker for making a awesome app!!

By: Don

Don — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:05:30 +0000

I just downloaded this today as well and its AWESOME!! Everyone I work with has an iPhone and Pandora…but I now have this! This is really good IMO. I just stream the songs in but the option to put them on your memory card is really cool too, havent tried that yet.

Check this out for anyone who has a Blackberry and who likes sites like Pandora! Its great

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:57:29 +0000

hopefully this will push pandora to finally release for the BB too

By: Benton

Benton — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:49:28 +0000

I got it downloaded, and it is rather awesome on my Sprint 8330, but the audio quality is rather abysmal. Is there any way to increase the bitrate? It seemed pretty decent at first, but not it is very grainy. Could it be due to so many people accessing it?

By: JJCool

JJCool — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:48:51 +0000

I downloaded it this morning and am very happy with it. I’ve been a slacker user for sometime now so I just put in my email and password and it loaded my custom stations. I went out a bought a larger SD card at lunch (4GB) and it says it can cache 26 stations. I only cached 4 and it took about 20 minutes over USB. The streaming works ok, but is a little slow when skipping songs and pulling down the album art. Caching is the way to go but you have to have a 512MB card or bigger, but since a 4GB is $4.50 at amazon, I doubt that’s much of a problem. Audio quality is really good as well. My biggest complaint at this point is when I get an email it pauses my music for the notification sound to play and doesn’t resume. The BB media player resumes after the notification plays. Hopefully Slacker will change that.

By: soooo

soooo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:47:47 +0000

it’s not licensed for use in Canada.

By: gbonham

gbonham — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:01:44 +0000

The site must be getting hammered. I’m getting a 404 error when trying to access the site from my Curve 8330. Same thing happened when the myspace app for blackberry came out.

By: RoseGold

RoseGold — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:44:42 +0000

seems like a cool idea when i want to hear something not on my memory card

By: Bill Andrews

Bill Andrews — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:34:07 +0000

I installed it, and it works. Can’t figure out the caching yet …