How to cache your Slacker stations

If you are reading this, it is either because you have slacker and want to learn more about it, or you have a blackberry and you asked me how to cache your music. The more likely reason is that you asked me for help, and I got sick of repeating myself so I told you to go here for instructions!

The main reason that I have come to love Slacker over other streaming music services is the fact that you can cache your stations (if you have a blackberry) So, the down and dirty to what that actually means is that slacker will actually download music onto your phone to allow you to play it directly from the media card, rather than having to wear your battery down and eat up your data plan by streaming the music over the internet. Go a head, I dare you to try and play Pandora while in an airplane or on the subway, etc. That is why I love slacker so much.

There are many other features that slacker give you over other services, but I won’t get into them here. You can check it out yourself from their website. http://www.slacker.com/

How to cache your slacker stations onto your blackberry.

(I am assuming you already have slacker installed before you begin this process)

1. You need to make sure you have a memory card installed in your blackberry and that it has at least 500MB or more of available space.
   


2. Verify that your BlackBerry’s memory is set up to support Mass Storage Mode Support. (that is in Options/Memory)
   


3. Start up the BlackBerry Slacker application.
   


4. Begin to play a station that you would like to cache.
   

5. Press the BlackBerry menu button and select “Cache Station” You will then get a message telling you that you have successfully cached the station, and next time you connect via USB, the music will download.


6. Plug your BlackBerry into the USB port of your computer.


7. After your computer recognized the phone it will show up in My Computer as a new drive. Double click to open up the drive, and then run the synclauncher.exe file.


8. Slacker will begin to download your stations onto your memory card.


9. After you have download the music, start up the BlackBerry Slacker application


10. You will now have a category called Cached Stations. Click on that category and you can now listen to your stations “internet free”...