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You don't really get curveballs with other leading online music players. Slacker finds that its listeners like the occasional curveball. And I'm going to put it in the 'A' category until you change your mind.' 'I can take their information and say, 'You know what? All you people who are voting to ban and get rid of this song – you're wrong!'' Party Ben said. Today he's seeing lots of people pressing the little heart button when they hear the new Daft Punk single, 'Get Lucky.' So he knows he better put 'Get Lucky' into heavy rotation.īut just like radio Djs of yore, he can stick a few divisive songs in his playlists, like this new song from Swedish duo The Knife. These days, Ben spends his time studying charts that track how Slacker users respond to different songs. Party Ben won his reputation as a mash-up pioneer, making unholy matrimonies like this union between punk noise and Destiny's Child. Now the company plans to build a music streaming presences through iTunes Radio. Jake Ji Apple already dominates online music sales. 'We were going to marry the best of old-school radio, where we had experts curating music, with this technology that gave users a lot of control,' Isquith says. That's exactly what Slacker set out to do, said Jack Isquith, Slacker's senior vice president of strategic development & content programming. He also likes that Slacker sounds more like trusty old FM radio.

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The option to play music offline is why Vo listens to Slacker instead of another, bigger service like Pandora, which doesn't allow offline play. 'Sometimes when I run, I turn my phone on airplane mode, so I don't get text messages, no calls, no emails,' Vo says. When Vo works out, he needs a beat, but he also wants to disconnect from the Internet. If they plan to stay alive, the people of Slacker will have to keep their hold on people like Son Vo. How will a small Rancho Bernardo-based company like Slacker Radio take on such brand-name competition? So far, savvy start-ups have dominated the music streaming business, but now tech giants like Apple and Google are hoping to wedge their way into the market too.