Logitech cut several features with the Squeezebox Boom, added a few people, including a beautiful 2.4-inch display, and slapped a $ 100 discount tag invent Squeezebox Radio, a phenomenal ratio of streaming audio devices. Boom sounds a bit better than the radio (especially when you compare the speaker in each box), but this advantage largely disappears when using outboard speakers. And the radio display adds many features Boom can not match.

Design and Specifications
Squeezebox radio only one ¾-inch tweeter and a 3.0-inch long-throw woofer on the left side of the body, which reduces its width by about one third compared with the Squeezebox Boom.Built-in amplifier and speakers is a must for background music: If you want more oomph, you can connect a set of powered speakers into 1/8-inch headphone radio slot (or connect it to your Hi-Fi system).

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The display, big wheels button, and a lot of buttons occupy the right side. The default display indicates the name of the artist, track and album names, album art, can also be programmed to play a slide show using pictures related to the online account Flickr (or until it is streaming music, or when it otherwise, in the standby mode ). But the display has other uses, too. Sign in to your Slacker, LastFM, Pandora, Rhapsody, or through, for example, and you can give this artist’s finger up or thumb’s down, read the biography of the artist, to find other artists in the same spirit, or create new custom radio stations based on the style of the artist .

Have accounts in more than one radio service? You can also jump from one station of the artist at stations in the same station to another. As the song so much you want to buy the whole CD?Go to Amazon with a few twists and pushes on the wheel and add it to your cart. Unfortunately, though, you can not buy just one track, though, and you need a PC to bring to the transaction.

You can link your Facebook account with Squeezebox radio too. Once you have, you can show your Facebook news and photos on display, radio, go to your Facebook friends directly from the radio, or post messages about all the songs you listen to your profile Facebook. These latest reports come from at least three links to sites Logitech, though, if you want to link to information about the song or artist, you have to do it yourself through Facebook. You can do many things with the Squeezebox Boom, too, but display Radio makes it all much easier.

Six buttons display a given limit – this may be related to your favorite radio stations or individual songs. Radio has three functions on her face that we sorely missed in the Boom: click “Home”, which takes you to the main menu of the player, alarm button, which takes you straight to the alarm settings, and good old-fashioned volume control with mute button. In contrast to the boom, however, the radio does not come with a remote control. Radio is equipped with IR receiver, and Logitech is planning to sell the same remote that comes with the Boom-plus a rechargeable battery that will really make a wireless radio, as after the sale of accessories. $ 49.99 package is scheduled to be available in November. But if you buy a Squeezebox radio, we recommend living with it for some time before plunking down any additional funds. We used the Squeezebox Boom almost daily for several months and came to the conclusion that we rarely use the remote control.

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Squeezebox radio, could not be much easier to install, either a wired or wireless network. We were a unit and working on our wireless network within 10 minutes (add a few minutes, if you have not yet registered to mysqueezebox.com, and after a few minutes to install and configure the remaining Squeezebox Logitech-server software).

Conclusion
Squeezebox radio joins a long list of fabulous audio-streaming devices come from the laboratory Logitech, and all of them can be used together to build a very cost-effective multi-room music system (although the Sonos Digital Music System is sending to choose in this category). We want to go to the Logitech 802.11n wireless LAN chip, though – Squeezebox is the only device that prevents us from running our wireless network at maximum speed 802.11n-only. We are happy to announce that the Squeezebox radio supports WPA2 security Wi-Fi network, and that it has a wide choice: we connected to our wireless access points in every room of the house 2,800 square feet, we used for testing. But the display device as small as it is, our favorite new feature. display album art all good , but this function LCD-loaded opened the door with great opportunities we never thought of.

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