I think I prefer Pandora, just because Slacker has three separate ad bars, all of which can contain Flash content on my humble 2.9 Ghz dual-core, this keeps my CPU between 30% and 60% the whole time. Slacker is another free 'internet radio' service, and seems to work pretty well. Also, it makes it very awkward to download music manually, as a 4-minute song generally shouldn't take 4 minutes to download. This is a really smart move on their part, at it saves them the bandwidth of pre-loading songs. It looks like Last.FM throttles your streaming rate so that you can only download songs at about the same speed they play.

Hit +S to save the file, name it something good (like the song title, for example), and you are on your way.Close the tab with last.fm in it and the new tab with your mp3 file should load. note: If the new tab appears to 'hang' while opening, it is because last.fm is still accessing this file on their player.Double-click the file and Chrome will open it in a new tab.A file named '128.mp3' should float to the top after a bit this is the file you want.Go to the 'Network' tab and click 'Size' twice to put the largest files at top.Press ++i to launch the Developer Console.Once you've picked a few artists and started listening, go ahead and do the following (remember to use Chrome!): Last.FM requires an account, so you have to do that before you can start listening. A friend of mine requested that I take a look at another free internet radio service, so went on over and played around for a bit.

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