Slacker’s various mobile apps for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry are due for an update in a few weeks, and will include the ability to listen to individual music tracks on demand. The feature is a long time coming, having been announced about six months ago, but it should finally be landing in mid-April. This is a pretty big deal since it traditionally just offered well-groomed playlists for a variety of genres, available to stream to your phone. With the new interface, you can drill into individual stations and play stations generated by the specific artists within it, or go right to individual tracks. The new version of Slacker will also offer a new “Favourite Songs” category from the home screen, so you can get quick access to your tagged tunes.
Slacker will also let you change how much discovery you want in your radio stations; normally when you chose an artist, the station will include musicians similar to the one you picked, and with these new controls you can limit or expand the scope of those other songs.
In order to get access to on-demand tunes from Slacker, you’ll have to pay $9.99/month for Premium, but if you’re not that picky, you can pay $3.99/month for Radio Plus, which offers unlimited skips, mobile caching, no ads. If that’s still too rich for your blood, Slacker is also available for free, but you only get six skips in a row. You can get downloading now from BlackBerry App World, the Android Market, or the iPhone App Store below.