Looking For A Replacement Internet Radio

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Looking For A Replacement Internet Radio

Postby Jamil » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:08 pm

I own a Sangean WFR-1. It worked for a few months without issue, but now it is defective. It now reboots itself instead of making network connections. I tried playing around with it in an attempt to fix, but it has some hardware issues. I was using this as a clock radio, and it did support Twonky audio served by my NAS. I'm going to avoid Sangean in the future.

I would like to order a new clock radio that can play media stored on the NAS. I'm actually not even finding very many of these devices being made.

Any suggestions on a replacement that has a clock with alarm functionality built in? It must stream audio from my NAS. Internet radio would be nice too, but it is not required.

Thanks.
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Re: Looking For A Replacement Internet Radio

Postby Astur » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:26 pm

I have recently purchased a Logitech Squeezebox Radio and I am very happy with it:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/speakers- ... adio-black
You can install the Logitech Media Server in your NAS, so you can stream your music files to your Radio, as well as tuning radio stations.
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Re: Looking For A Replacement Internet Radio

Postby Jamil » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:23 am

Thank you for the suggestion. I will use the device primarly as an alarm clock to wake up to. This was what I was using the Sangean for.

In searching Logitech's forums, there looks like people are having issues with its alarm features:

http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Squeezebo ... d-p/744038

I do not see that this had been resolved in this thread.
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Re: Looking For A Replacement Internet Radio

Postby Astur » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:12 am

I was not aware of that problem, since I do not use the alarm to wake up!.
I have only used the Squeezebox Radio's alarm once to alert me for a live transmission I wanted to listen to a few hours later, and it worked OK.
It's obvious that every owner have his own preferences on how to use his equipment...
Anyway, I cannot understand how long time need Logitech engineers in solving an (apparent) simple problem; maybe it is not that simple!
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