Re: [slim] Boom + Duet = Slacker problem?
Two strikes you're out! But you can always edit the station details and remove that song from the thumbs down list. So that gives you some flexibility, you can always correct things... -- jmourik jmourik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7123 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boom + Duet = Slacker problem?
jmourik;378187 Wrote: Got a question for you though, what would you say are the differences between Slacker, Pandora and last.fm? I don't listen to last.fm very much, but I don't believe it lets you define multiple stations; you enter artists to listen to, and it plays them and similar artists. Pandora does let you define multiple stations based on whatever artists you select, and plays those artists and similar songs on the selected station. Pandora uses musical characteristics (type of melody, beat, major instruments, etc.) to determine what is a similar song. Basically Pandora plays *songs* similar to what you indicate you like. Slacker is about the same thing as Pandora, except it plays *artists* that are similar to the ones you've specified to play on a particular station. This can be a disadvantage as one artist may have played several different genres/styles during their career, so you may hear songs that don't exactly fit the station you've defined. Both Pandora and Slacker let you approve (thumbs up or favorite) or disapprove (thumbs down or ban) a song. Pandora takes your thumbs up rating and tries to play songs with similar characteristics in the future, while Slacker will play *that song* more often in the future. A thumbs down in Pandora removes that song from the station's playlist for a month; a ban in Slacker removes that song from the station's playlist forever. I like Slacker more than Pandora because of its fine-tuning ability; you can really make a station your own by tweaking the Artist Discovery, Popularity (Song), Favorites, and Year sliders associated with each station. Plus you can buy a portable music player from Slacker and listen to your stations when offline. I bought the G2 and it's become the only thing I listen to in my car and at work -- again IMHO, it's an exponentially better value to buy a G2 and have access to millions of songs at no extra charge than to buy an Ipod and have to manage your own library at $0.99 per song. And with my Boom and new, now-functioning-perfectly Duet, I can listen to Slacker anywhere in my house. -- tdnuerf tdnuerf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22385 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boom + Duet = Slacker problem?
Thanks td for that extensive reply! I've been using Pandora quite a bit, and didn't even know that banned songs only are banned for a month! I do enjoy it, I've set up special stations for my wife and myself, and often use quickmix. Seems to hit the spot often times, but it does play some songs too often. I'll check out Slacker a bit more though... -- jmourik jmourik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7123 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boom + Duet = Slacker problem?
Looking into their music-selection algorithms, it appears that giving a Pandora song a thumbs down does remove it from the current station permanently. But, whoa! If you give another song by the same artist a thumbs down, the artist is banned from that station. Seems a bit severe to me. This info straight from http://blog.pandora.com/faq/#18. -- tdnuerf tdnuerf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22385 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boom + Duet = Slacker problem?
Funny to see you answering your own questions :-) Got a question for you though, what would you say are the differences between Slacker, Pandora and last.fm? -- jmourik jmourik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7123 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Boom + Duet = Slacker problem?
Okay -- I installed Squeezecenter and everything Slacker works okay, as long as I'm connecting through SC and not Squeezenetwork. I notice that SN has changed from r5382/r24405 to r5382/r24438 in the past couple of days -- could that be the cause of my Slacker control woes? -- tdnuerf tdnuerf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22385 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
