Both the free and Premium services let you create custom radio stations based on a particular artist. Premium service-available via one of three payment plans, ranging from $7.50 to $10 per month-is ad-free, has unlimited song skips and song requests, and allows you to play, at will, certain songs you like. (I often hear ads for the Navy when using Slacker on my Mac through a Web browser.) The free account limits you to 6 song skips per hour, limits the number of songs you can request, and plays ads, although the only ads I heard during my G2 testing were 4-second Slacker station ID-like announcements. Each station also has several sub-genres (for example, Alternative has 12 sub-genres, including Indie, Modern Punk, and Party Alternative) and Slacker says there are millions of songs available. A free account gives you access to 16 main radio stations sorted by genre (Alternative, Country, Hip-Hop/R&B, Jazz, Rock, and more). The G2 is a vehicle for taking your Slacker radio content with you, so you need to sign up for a Slacker account on the Web. I’ll elaborate on how the G2 syncs with the Slacker service using Wi-Fi. (The G2 comes with Windows software that allows you to load MP3s as well as sync the G2 to your Slacker account if the PC is connected to the Internet.) If this lack of Mac interoperability is a deal-breaker for you, then you can stop reading (thank you for your time). You can’t connect to a Mac to load your own MP3s.
(Slacker also says it’s working on an iPhone application.) You can use Safari or another Web browser to configure your Slacker radio stations, but without software, the G2 is simply a device for playback of the Slacker Internet radio service that syncs via Wi-Fi. Now, before you read any further, there’s an important thing about the G2 that Mac users need to know: Slacker doesn’t yet have Mac software for the G2.
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