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Logitech Squeezebox Radio | 
| Brand: Logitech
Category: CE
Buy New: Too low to display
as of 3/22/2010 03:05 CDT details
New (19)
Seller: Electronics Expo
Rating:  168 reviews
Sales Rank: 198
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.5
Dimensions (in): 4 x 5.3 x 8.8
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: 930-000101
Model: 930-000101
UPC: 097855063601
EAN: 0097855063601
ASIN: B002LARRDK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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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Product Description
Logitech Squeezebox Radio combines the power of the Internet with the simplicity of old-fashioned radio. You plug it in, turn it on, and pick a source - free Internet radio, or your personal digital music collection.s beyond your music collection, including thousands of internet radio stations, Pandora's personalized music service and Rhapsody's 2 million song collection. It's music, your way.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 168
 Great Radio for Non-Techies, Pandora users, and expanding your musical and talk radio horizons March 22, 2010
Jeff A. Stucker (Eagle, ID United States)
I bought this Internet radio for my wife, who is a non-techie. She loves it, and uses it for all the reasons I bought it. The sound quality is surprisingly good for such a small radio. The bass is as good you can expect for something its size, but mid and high tone is clear as day and makes for great background music and radio shows.
Here's why I got it:
* Pandora
* Radio show archives (talk programs, radio dramas, etc.)
* To play podcasts and stories
* All kinds of radio stations by genre, location, and format from all over the world
* All the local radio stations that don't get good reception at our house (this was a bonus, I didn't actually expect this one, but it's got every local radio station on a list, including those out of range now loud and clear over the Internet)
For those who don't know about Pandora, it's a web site where you create your own Internet radio stations using music you like. I'm a Pandora junkie, and I made a bunch of stations my wife likes too.
This device was a snap to hook up. I entered the password to our home wireless network and it was online and playing music.
This device has lots of options, mostly different possible sources of music, stations, and programs. Non-techies can ignore the details they're not interested in. What's nice is you just follow the instructions and it'll do what you want. Once it's set up, whether wired to the Internet or through your wireless router, you don't need a manual, the knobs and buttons just make sense.
Out of the box, the menu navigation is simple, with options for all kinds of radio stations by Genre and format (i.e., talk). There are thousands of stations and programs to choose from, organized by several categories. It figured out my location and (surprise!) all the local radio stations show up on a Local list.
We like to listen to programs like Insight For Living, Focus on the Family, etc., but don't get good reception on the regular radio; besides, their programs may not match our schedule. No problem, she selects Talk > Religious > Shows > [Program Name] > Recent Episodes, pick the episode by title and listen to any of the last couple dozen shows whenever she wants. We can select radio dramas like Adventures In Odyssey for our children to listen to wonderful stories.
From there, I added more stuff. I created a MySqueezeBox account (which is free) using my computer and added a Pandora app (also free). I entered the passwords on the Squeezebox. The radio immediately was able to play my Pandora radio stations and Quick Mix. I added an RSS app to MySqueezeBox, and added a few podcasts, so we can listen to selected podcasts as well.
Here are some of the surprisingly pleasant features. The vibrant screen shows album art for each song on Pandora, the station logo for radio, or show logo for programs or podcasts. You can pause/mute at any time and skip songs on Pandora. The controls for menu navigation, pause, skip, and volume control are simple and straightforward.
On the down side, for Pandora users, it takes a couple of buttons and knob turns to enter a thumbs up or thumbs down on a song, which alters your station. It's much easier to edit the Pandora content on the computer. Entering passwords is tedious using a turn knob to select letters, numbers and special characters; fortunately, you only have to do it once for each password set up.
Once in the last month, it locked up and I needed to briefly unplug the device to reboot. (All the settings and passwords are still saved.) There is one podcast that I can't get to work because it's not formatted correctly for the radio to get it going; I really wanted Your Story Hour for my kids -- one of my favorites from childhood that I had in mind when I bought this thing -- but it won't work unless the podcast owner changes their site structure. Eventually, I may link this to my own music collection and downloads, which will definitely work around that podcast issue, but we've got so much more music and content available that for now we're fine.
By way of comparison, the built in thumbs up and thumbs down on the Livio Internet Radio Featuring Pandora (a competitive product) looked great but were not enough to make me or my wife want that instead. Reading up on the specs online, I found that the SqueezeBox has more flexibility and potential for future growth.
We like the idea of whole house audio, so here is something nice to have open for the future. If I buy another Squeezebox, like a boom box version or one that hooks into a "real" stereo system, I'll be able to "link" them wirelessly so they synchronize and play the same music from room to room.
For now, I'm feeling great about this gadget, and my wife likes it better than I expected; actually, she loves it. And the classic red color goes great with our decor! Other than the one podcast not working and one system lockup that was fixed with a power reset (unplug it briefly), the Squeezebox has worked flawlessly, adding music and inspiration to our lives. Literally.
Given the same decision, I'd buy this again in a heartbeat.
Great radio, ethernet is problematic, setup can bewilder the novice March 21, 2010
Andrew T. Burns (Saint Johns, FL)
The Squeezebox is a great little internet radio. Looks great, clean design. Great sound for such a small unit! The ability to network and control is very handy - as I'm typing this on my laptop in the living room, I'm controlling the radio in the kitchen (up to and including volume control). It integrates seamlessly with iTunes and you have full and pretty easy access to your library through the radio.
Setup could be bewildering to the networking novice. Given the other reviews, setup is pretty easy for wi-fi, but my house is wired for ethernet throughout. I plugged in the Squeezebox to the LAN, got through the initial setup and then spent two frustrating hours trying to figure out why it wouldn't play any internet radio stations. Finally buried in the Logitech FAQ's is a note that the internet radio doesn't work if you use a 10/100 hub! You'd have a hard time finding a hub that isn't 10/100... So while I can access my iTunes library, I've yet to get the internet radio up and running.
Great out-of-box experience March 20, 2010
Peter D. Henry (York, PA USA)
The FedEx guy dropped this off this morning. I couldn't belive how easy this was to set up. I entered my wireless password, it automatically downloaded and installed a firmware update, I created a Squeezebox account via the radio controls and I was all done! It even used my IP address info to automatically set up a list of local radio stations to choose to stream.
One minor quibble so far - when you turn the radio on it doesn't start playing the station that was streaming when you turned it off, until you also hit the "Play" button.
Better than I expected! March 20, 2010
C. Christiansen (MA)
I was in the market for something to replace satellite radio, which is getting more expensive while simultaneously offering less variety and more commercials. I was debating between this radio and the Grace Wireless GDR-IR2000, which also seems to be a good product. In the end, the feature set of the Logitech Squeezebox Radio swayed me and I went with that model.
Setup took all of 10 minutes, and that was mostly the time it took to enter my wireless security key using the control knob. Once that was in, the radio downloaded a firmware update, restarted and I was off and running.
I've seen a lot of complains about the sound quality on these kinds of radios, so I was surprised to find that this radio sounds clear and has plenty of volume. Right now, I am downstairs with the radio playing upstairs at about half volume and I can hear it clearly.
The one feature that really tipped the scales in favor of this over the Grace was the variety of services. I use Pandora quite a bit. My wife likes Last.fm better. I also have a Slacker account (all these are the free accounts, by the way, you don't need the paid accounts to use these services on this radio). It's great having all of these services accessible from one place, and they all stream without a hiccup so far. My wireless signal between the router (downstairs) and radio (upstairs) has been at full bars the whole time to date. If you like podcasts, there are also applications that let you subscribe to your favorite podcasts and listen to them on the radio.
I also installed the Squeezebox server software on my Windows 7 computer downstairs that hosts all of my MP3s. The server control panel interface is pretty barebones (basically just looks like a tabbed Windows configuration dialog box), but the only thing I really needed to mess with was the path to my MP3s, which is pretty clearly shown in the interface. Once I did that, my music collection was accessible by album, artist, or genre in the home menu of the radio. I will say that if you want a clearly organized experience here, make sure all the ID3 tags in your MP3s are correct - a lot of mine aren't, so my artist & album menus contain some incorrect entries.
Something that might be a downside for people is the lack of a remote and/or battery. These are available for pre-order from Logitech, but they're pretty pricy ($50 for the 2 items) and they've already been delayed several times, so I wouldn't count on actually having them until they show up for real. I've heard that if you have a Logitech Harmony universal remote that you can program it to work with the radio, but I don't have one, so I can't say for sure. I don't plan to move the radio, so the battery isn't necessary for me. As far as remotes go, you can actually remotely control the radio from a web browser at the MySqueezebox site - changing what's playing, volume, turning it on and off, even rating your Pandora tracks thumbs up/down are all available via the web interface. That's been my remote control so far.
As far as the physical look of the radio, I think the pictures here make it look cheaper than it looks in person. It's very shiny glossy black and the display is quite bright. In fact, if you want to use this as an alarm clock, I pretty much guarantee that you're gonna want to crank the brightness down or it might keep you awake. The clock numbers are quite large though, with white numbers on a black background, so it's easy to read from a distance.
All in all, I couldn't be more happy with this purchase. Satellite radio costs me $180 per year, and that's without access to the online stream, which is extra. Basically, I bought this for the cost of about 9 months worth of satellite radio and got a greater mix of available genres & music with access to all the online services I use without the monthly bill.
The one thing that's going to make me miss satellite radio is the lack of MLB Gameday Audio from this radio. But even subscribing to that separately and only being able to access it from my computer will only be about 10% of the cost of satellite radio, so I think I can live with that. In the meantime, how about MLB & Logitech reps have a nice lunch and work something out for us baseball fans?
Best Internet Radio Currently Available March 18, 2010
Buffet Buster (Cherryfield, ME)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a big internet radio fan. There is no variety to terrestrial radio these days, and the satellite radio works best in the car. Internet radio has opened up a whole new world to me, and even replaced my old shortwave. I have had other products before, but they were a lot more like computers than radios compared to this one. It worked pretty fast out of the box, although it saves time if you do a lot of the set-up on your computer rather than using the cumbersome and time-consuming knob on the radio itself. I use it mainly for internet radio, but Pandora, etc., all seems to stream well also over my wireless network anywhere in the house. The Radiotime site is a good resource to set up folders for favorites, etc. and I have lots of stations arranged in folders by category for easy access. The radio itself has only six pre-sets, and in my case that was not enough.
Like all new products, this one requires some patience, and I am not sure all my relatives (and my wife) who just want to turn on an appliance and forget about it, would like it, but, if you are into radio, this is a real sweet set up.
My main complaint, which others obviously share, is that the long promised battery pack took forever to come out, and, when it did, immediately sold out. I was looking forward to sitting on the deck with the radio this summer. I sure hope the battery is back in stock before then. Logitech deserves some bad marks for stringing us along on the battery issue.
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