slacker.com

**Guide to Slacker.com

Basic Slacker.com Information [|Slacker.com] i s a website that allows you to "create" your own radio station. With slacker you are able to look up various artists and listen to the artist of your choosing. But you can only choose one artist and based on the artist you pick slcaker will pick 5 songs that they think you will like based on the artist you picked. Slacker.com is like every radio station put into one website and allows you to listen to songs from all over the radio.

****Pros and Cons**
 * I personally think that slacker.com is not all that great. It has a lot of flaws and its cons out weigh its pros. First I will start off with what I like about slacker.com and its pros. I like how it chooses songs that it thinks you will like. It allows you to listen to a whole bunch of new songs and the songs that were picked for me were pretty good. What I also thought was neat was that they have a huge variety of artists and songs. And I like how I can look up an artist and they will have all the songs that the artist has right on one page, which makes looking for songs much easier. But besides that I wasn't to into slacker.com. The cons with slacker.com is that you can only listen to six songs at a time. You can listen to an unlimited amount of songs on slacker.com only if you pay. But you don't even get to pick all six songs, you can only pick one song and the five other songs are randomly choosen based on your first pick. That is good for discovering new artist and new songs but sometimes I just want to pick six songs of my own. And I think that slacker.com is kind of confusing to use and it is hard to get into it. I just didn't really think that slacker.com is the best music listening website out there. **


 * Student and Teacher Uses**
 * As it goes for its uses for students I think that slacker.com could be valuable for music students. They could listen to a large variety of artists and songs which is always good. But I don't really see it as educational for students. Its a good subistute for those who don't have ipods or any kind of music device. But I don't really see any important uses for slacker.com. And as for teachers it would only be good for like a music teacher. Teachers could use it but there not really any eudcational use for this site. **


 * Example**
 * I have created my own station to show you as an example, which you can view at [] . In my example I picked a Metallica song and it gave me songs from artists like Slayer, Motorhead, Helloween, and Coma. **