Logitech Squeezebox Radio brings a world of music—free Internet radio, subscription services, or your personal digital music collection—to any space in your home, over your Wi-Fi network. read more..
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- Listen to infinite music, news and sports from every corner of the globe with this
easy-to-use, all-in-one Wi-Fi music player--all without a computer - Start listening to free Internet radio stations, online music services, and your personal iTunes collection in minutes--connects easily to your home network via Wi-Fi
- Bring full, high-quality sound to any room with an ultra-compact design that fits easily on your night table or kitchen counter
- Just turn the dial to browse radio stations, music tracks and even album art, displayed on the full-color screen
- Recommend music to Facebook friends instantly right from your Squeezebox
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Overall, pretty great! by ReadersAdvisoryFor a relatively inexpensive device, the Radio comes packed with features. I can listen to Pandora or Last.fm, choose from among all the BBC's radio stations or use the Listen Again service to catch up on older programs, stream music from every computer in the house, play my iPod through the radio, and more. Unlike other similar devices, the Radio plays multiple formats: AAC, Windows Media, FLAC, etc. There are a number of options for adding radio stations, and though six presets is a little skimpy, you can also add stations as favorites for quick access. Sound quality probably wouldn't satisfy a serious audiophile, but it's very good indeed for a unit of this size and specs.
Initial setup was extremely simple and intuitive, and the radio had no trouble finding my network. It's not perfect; it does lose connectivity every once in a while, but a restart always resolves this. Also, it will occasionally take a few tries to get it to switch from one server to another, but this is not a frequent enough problem to keep me from liking the device.
The interface is a little clunky to navigate--something I've found to be true of all Internet radios/music players--but it's very attractive and can be customized. The device itself also looks good, which isn't a major consideration but is a nice bonus. It's small enough to fit comfortably even on my cluttered nightstand. The big dial that controls most of the functions isn't ideal--it's easy to turn it while you're attempting to press it to make a selection, so that you inadvertently select the wrong thing. You do eventually get used to it, but it can be a little frustrating till you do.
My biggest complaint about the device is the alarm clock function. Unless you want to wake up to a song or radio broadcast (which doesn't work for me--I need something more aggressive to wake me up), there are no good options for the alarm sound--everything is annoying synthesized beeps and boops, or even more annoying recorded sounds, like the one that sounds like a car alarm. To get the radio to snooze after the alarm goes off, you have to turn the control and make sure you select "snooze" instead of "turn off alarm," which isn't easy for me when I've just woken up and don't have my glasses on. (On my old Roku Soundbridge radio, which I bought this unit to replace, all I had to do was hit the big snooze button on the top of the radio.) Worse, the most recent firmware update did something that made the alarm unreliable, and now it simply fails to go off sometimes. Fortunately, plain old alarm clocks are cheap, and I've started using one again so that I don't have to rely on the Squeezebox. That's a little disappointing, but the Radio is obviously much more than an alarm clock, and since it does so many other things so well, I don't mind using older technology to help me wake up. Overall, this is a terrific little gadget at a fair price.
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