jimmy100;148803 Wrote: 
> Rather than something like the roku or acoustic energy products, with
> both look quite poor imho:
> 'Roku Soundbridge radio'
> (http://www.rokulabs.com/products_soundbridgeradio.php)
> 'AE wifi radio'
> (http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/Product_range/WiFi_radio/WiFi.asp)
> 

Why do you feel these implementations are poor?  I have a poor
impression of Roku (and without support for Real Audio, what's the
point of an Internet radio standalone device?) but I've heard good
things about the Acoustic Energy unit.

In particular, it appears to me that the Acoustic Energy device has
several advantages (as an Internet radio device):

(1)  It already has a pre-compiled, online, continually updated list of
Internet radio stations (not just live365 and radioIO);
(2)  It doesn't require a server program such as Slim server (of course
we can use SqueezeNetwork, but that doesn't allow us to receive
AlienBBC); and
(3)  It has minimal setup requirements -- especially compared to the
double installation of SlimServer and AlienBBC

In the end, I don't feel the advantages of the Acoustic Energy device
outweigh the advantages of the Squeezebox.  Nonetheless, I do wish that
SqueezeNetwork also had a pre-compiled list of Internet radio stations.


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