Slacker vs. SiriusXm:

First of all, whats better then free music? Nothing. In addition to Slacker offering you free music it also has pre-programed stations. Industry pros put their blood sweat and tears into creating the best stations for Slacker listeners giving us the flexibility to create our own stations or listen to a huge range of Slackers genre and seasonal stations (even some comedy). I love the "sneak peak" feature which lets you peak around the corner to the next song. And for only $4/month you get even more awesome features and no advertising. I can't rave about this app enough!

Not only does the Slacker app set the bar, but it changes things completely. Some things it does a lot better than Pandora / Last.FM

I played around with this app for about 45 minutes from the house to work and it holds the connection better

I was liking Pandora radio but this one takes the cake! I decided to look for a radio app that had all of my favorite types of music(rock, hip hop ect.) and I didn't know I'd find a free one! I mean I was pretty doubtful at first but then I read these reviews and they did not lie! I deleted my pandoria radio right after I opened this application! This is the best free app radio I've seen so far :D

I've listened to a bunch of the other free music apps. But this is the one. It's got the programing that Last FM and Pandora does not have and the additional information like Artist Bios and Album Reviews that Pandora only wishes it has. It breaks out of the expected iPod like interface Pandora went with including a dynamic next album preview and skip feature. Really slick to just slide the album art over to skip a track. Hearting and Banning a track is consistent with the slacker.com functionality. Now I only wish it cached on the iphone like their Blackberry app. For now it's streaming only. I have WiFi at home so I use the Line In on the iPhone doc and use this to plug into my home stereo. It's the way music should be. Thank you Slacker!!!

I couldn't be happier with this app. I have been a Slacker listener for a while now. I used to listen to Pandora but Slacker has WAY more music and a lot more features. I've only been using the Slacker App for a day, but so far it seems like everything I love about Slacker radio is part of the app. Tons of free music, slick interface, great sound quality and the ability to listen to all my custom stations or their pre-made stations.

Don't even bother with this app, just go download Pandora. It's free as well, and it'll let you skip as many songs as you want (unlike this app). Pandora also lets you rate songs and create a station based on a band you like, rather than going by genre as this app does.

Having to listen to 30 second commercials on where to get my taxes done in insane!! Pandora flips up an ad that you can get rid of. I'm sticking with Pandora.

SiriusXM is in trouble!!!

Good, but I'm going to stick with pandora for now. Slacker's UI on this app blows Pandora 's away, however Slacker has 2 major problems: 1) If I'm driving (which is when I use these apps the most) and I hear a song I like, I need the ability to bookmark that song so I can buy it later. I can't buy the song as I'm driving. Pandora makes it very simple to bookmark a song, however Slacker doesn't have his ability at all. 2) I usually don't want to listen to just one station at a time. Pandora has a quick mix option which randomly plays all of my stations. This is a must have. If slacker added these two things, this app would be the best Internet radio app in the app store. Please add both these things in your next update!

Best music app out there...works great over edge, and the interface is smooth..best app for 2009 by far!

Between this and the multitude of apps available on the iPhone for Internet Radio, there is no reason to pay $13 a month for watered down FM without commercials. If you dislike ads, and the low skip limit on the free service you can subscribe to slacker plus ($3.99 a month, or $47 a year) to get rid of all that. As well as unlimited requests. The killer app here is to make your own custom stations with artists and bands you want to hear, whereas you would have to pull teeth to get a song played on XM or Sirius, you can easily request songs, ban songs you don't like and favor songs you do. The web app also lets you ban artists as well as songs, something Slacker's own G2 portable does not allow. It is the killer app for the iPhone, and it should make SiriusXM very worried.

Needs thumbnails for custom stations and the songs need to start playing where they left off when you open the app. If you close the app mid-song now it starts playing the next song when you open it back up. Other than that this is a great app. I love the Slacker service, much more than Pandora, and this app doesn't disappoint. Not only does it work seamlessly with the service, it's just darn pretty.

miles ahead of their G2, which i use and love... amazing!

I have been waiting MONTHS for this release! The music programming is top-of-the-line amazing. My fav stations are Alternative Chill and Alternative Indie & Indie Hits!

This app is great, I thought Pandora was it but, this takes it now. K-busters lives.....

Slacker is my new best friend (well, when it comes to music). I've been a big fan of their web player for about a year and now that I can get it on my iPhone - it's even better. The player lets you pick a genre of music, skip songs, see the next song on the playlist and you can mark songs as favorites (heart) or ban them from ever being heard again. I highly recommend the Slacker player, it's pretty cool and best of all, it's free with plenty of new, excellent music.

Over edge and 3g, I'm getting the same amazing slacker service I am used to on the web and on my slacker portable device, (which I guess I don't need anymore). I have personal stations set up on the slacker website that showed up on the iPhone app as soon as I logged in. The app also gives you info about the artist and album, and it learns about your music preferences by letting you ban or love songs. Sound quality, even over edge, is really impressive and the app has yet to crash. This is a great pandora alternative with a lot of extra bells and whistles. Hey slacker, please add caching so this can be the perfect app!!!!!

It's the first release so there are obviously going to be some features missing initially, but Slacker is on the right path. Definitely a must have if you prefer Slacker over the other offerings! Goodbyte repeats from Pandora \o/

Real Internet radio comes to the iPhone.

Finally it's available. As a Slacker user for a few months now, I was eagerly awaiting this app. And they certainly didn't disappoint. Great interface, excellent library of tracks and I love the coverflow that shows you the album from which the next song that is to be played came from. I'm a Slacker Plus user and my personal stations came up as soon as I logged in. Great job!

Why can't someone develop an app that plays when you are viewing email or surfing? I like Slacker but am married to Pandora.

This is a fantastic time to be a music fan, and as long as the record company idiots and legislators don't royalty Internet radio to death, I can't think of a better time to be a music fan. Is that enough repetition for you?

Tried this and thought it was great until all the commercials and the song doesn't even resume after you close the app, it just starts the next song... Sigh, Pandora is best still.

I've tested Pandora, Last.fm, imeem, AOL, Shoutcast, etc. and to get personalized music that will fit your desires, Slacker is the best available. It continually plays music I like to hear, without overplaying tracks, while making it easy to customize to your direct music/genre desires. It has been "stuck" on my iPhone's home page.

I take a bus for much of my 90 minute commute to and from work. When I get on, I just start up Slacker and stream away until I get to my destination. It has eliminated the need to decide what part of my music collection should be synced to my iPhone, since I can choose what I want to listen to on the spot. And it has also introduced me to other songs and artists that I normally wouldn't have heard, allowing me to expand my musical horizons. I've even found a use for it at work, streaming new age music in the background to drown out others' conversations. Compared to others (Pandora specifically) I think the sound quality of the music from Slacker is better. Slacker also provides more powerful station customization tools, and doesn't limit free streaming to 40 hours per month (I've read that Pandora recently did this; not an issue fir me since most of my listening these days is through Slacker). There is one drawback to Slacker, though... Whereas Pandora doesn't feature audible advertisements on its radio stations, Slacker does- at the rate of about one every 45-60 minutes, in my experience. (That's one possibly 30 second ad during that entire time.) I don't find the ads obnoxious or annoying; your tastes may vary. (If you do, Slacker has an ad-free premium service as well, but I haven't bothered with it since I'd rather have free service.) Overall, this is a great app. It's allowing me to drop my XM subscription (savings of ~$16/month) without really missing anything that I'd used it for in the past. (I'm driving cross country soon and will be streaming Slacker during most of the trip.) Having the ability to run it in the background would be a great addition to its features; I understand that this can already be done on some jail broken phones.