Talk:Slacker (music service)

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I heard that it is very difficult to create a meaningful classical station or stations. Something about multiple performances of the same music by multiple artists or symphonies. I like classical too. I will be happy when they get around to programming some. I know from a feedback email that they are working on it. But did not disclose when.Xenotica 22:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Did anyone ever explain WHY there's no classical music available on slacker? I was loving the site until I made a station of just classical artists- and it wouldn't play. Why would they have those artists available? It's just odd.

Does this article meet he guidelines? I read everything more carefully this time so hopefully I got it right. I am open to any suggestions of course since I am new using WikiPedia. Yup a n00b! Xenotica 01:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC) Bold text

Any idea what the actual sound quality is on either the browser player or the portable? I've been using the browser player for a week or so and am wondering if I should just stick with radio over iTunes (i.e. live365) or with the slacker player. The device is very tempting, but the stats on the slacker.com Website pretty much suck. 24.127.49.104 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 17:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

This article still needs a lot of work. There is a lot of prose that sounds like advertising. AliveFreeHappy (talk) 20:09, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Can you be more specific please. So someone can attempt to fix the "prose" I personally don't see that but with a little guidance maybe I or some else can. Xenotica (talk) 18:56, 15 January 2008 (UTC) about it only available in the US, im not near there and can listen to it; that could be wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.90.75.18 (talk) 07:46, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Any particular reason the recent reviews were removed? Nala Galatea (talk) 09:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions for the page

Should we add something in the article saying that the artist profiles and album reviews come from allmusic.com?

We could also mention something about the dj's that program the stations. forums.slacker.com mentions most if not all of them. And that site seems to be official, so maybe that could be a reference, but only taking content written by the staff?

But overall, the page needs to be expanded immensely, I mean if you look at Pandora and last.fm's page, they're a whole lot more filled out. Flap Jackson (talk) 03:25, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Last.fm Audioscrobbler Hack

The "Audioscrobbler hack" is not notable for a supposedly encyclopedic article. This is doubly true when there is no citation for the information. It seems to me that the main purposes of that section is to (1) provide an opportunity for an external link (essentially linkspamming for the hack authors) and (2) make the article fulfill a user guide or some other function for Slacker/authors-of-the-hack that is more correctly done elsewhere (i.e., on a Slacker forum or some other site that is not Wikipedia). Removing that section would reduce the fanboy tone of the article. If you really think the information is somehow critical to someone who wants to read an article explaining what Slacker is, at least provide a citation that isn't self-published and/or reduce it to a single sentence. It does not warrant its own section. SlubGlub (talk) 17:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)