Slacker Web & Desktop Radio

There's this really cool music discovery and web radio site, called Slacker, that I found out about late last year and it's still in beta (and therefore free). It doesn't have the music tracking, stats and social networking features like Last.FM (a really excellent site as well), but it really excels at just finding really great music for you. You don't have to input the music that you like (as per Last.FM), instead you just search for an artist or genre and it makes a personalized radio station for you. If you hear a track (or artist) you don't (or do) like, you can ban or 'favorite' them. The streaming is also really fast, high-quality audio and they have whole songs to listen to.



I was there today and found out that, in addition to the Flash-based browser app, they have a new desktop application (only Windows for right now). This will hook up to their future portable player and satellite radio for the car (think personalized XM). Try out the desktop app (haven't done it myself) or just try out the website (you don't have to join to start listening to the preconfigured radio stations) and let me know what you think.