I see ABC Whorehouse has two Intenet radios for sale around $100-$125 - but they are only plastic shells and you can't actually use them to listen! Can anybody suggest a decent Internet radio that you CAN use to stream XM Online, standard radio stations, Live365, and Pandora's box? That sounds decent, has a wired internet jack and WiFi too?
Thanks,

Check out the units offered by Livio:

http://www.livioradio.com/

I have the NPR Radio at my office, it supports both wireless and Ethernet, has good sound quality, and sells for $149. The sell a Pandora radio as well.

I have a CCrane model.

http://www.ccrane.com/radios/wifi-radios/

(mine is the CC internet radio on the left)

I have a couple of these:

http://www.gracedigitalaudio.com/bravado-wireless-internet-radio-network-media-player-p-153.html

One had an initial failure and had to be returned to Amazon, but they shipped a replacement for arrival the next day. Love that Amazon!

Anyway, they are good for the money; you can get them in the low $150's. They fill a room nicely, and have some nice I/O features.

If the internet gets interrupted do any of these resume streaming automatically?

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Yes.

The Grace units just sit there 'loading' until the 'net is back.

The technology is still a little new, and the bugs are getting worked out, but it beats a computer with speakers and a bunch of bookmarks. I sometimes fall asleep with a 'sleep' function to a "walk in the woods' station....lots of babbling brooks and birds. Laptops are not quite so convenient. It comes with a remote control so I can run it from the bed with one eye open.

When the ability to deliver 128 kbps to cars reliably at a low / fixed reasonable cost arrives (when the carriers stop being greedy with monthly limits), terrestrial radio is going to be in a very, VERY tough spot.

There are at least 2 stations playing nothing but birds chirping like you hear in an early summer morning....there are at least 25 stations playing polka music......more news stations than you could ever listen to......there are hideous amounts of some genres. At least a couple dozen "easy" music stations which make great background noise. Oddly there are TON from 'Russia'.

No way will people suffer through Jim Harper to hear some music during their drive.....or at least not for very long. Or, perhaps is the answer one GOOD A/C morning show with listeners all over the US instead of one with a 40 mile radius?

Not good for my part of the business. No RF plant design here.

The sustainability of the business model is interesting.....there are ten thousand or more free sources....can that last? The infrastructure to provide it is relatively inexpensive, compared to a terrestrial radio station.....but why bother doing it for free? On the other hand, no one is going to pay much more than $10 or $20 a month, at least not in ultra-large numbers....XM/S is testimony to that.

I think the answer is paid subscription services offering thousands of channels. For no spots, I'd probably bite on that. The other stuff could still be there either with spots, experimentally, or otherwise subsidized.

The times, they are a-changing.

I settled on the Logitech Squeezebox, which was fine at first, but when ClearChannel switched to 'iHeartRadio' they dropped all their WMA links and I had NO ClearChannel stations whatsoever (not a problem, I know) BUT after pestering Logitech for 2 months, they finally wrote some new software firmware upgrade that's a work-around, and now you can get about 95% of the Clear Channels stations again without it running a barker that says "this station is not available in your country"!!!

Also look at Orb. It's excellent, hooks up to any radio via RCA or Mini, and can be easily controlled by your smart phone. It runs internet radio, plus iTunes, Pandora, just about anything.

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Nice unit.

I liked your unit the best, but figured whatever I purchased would be obsolete in a year or so. As such, I figured two Bravado-X's would still cost a little less and cover 2 houses without hauling them back and forth.

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I have 2 Logitech Squeezeboxes, excellent. No problems ever. They can be wireless or wired to the modem.

"Decent Internet Radio" is an oxymoron. The Internet isn't radio. Never will be. Internet streaming is as much like real radio as intravenous feeding is like fine dining.

Listening to a radio station over the internet that has actual DJ's and great local programming is always better than listening over the air to a voice tracked, automated station.

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I agree Sparky. There is a tiny Mom & Pop radio station way up in New York called "Hometown Radio AM Stereo 1340 WIRY" where the DJ's are live, they play whatever the heck they want, so it ranges from oldies to country and back again.
Horrible audio quality feed at just 20K, I wish they had a 48K or better or AAC feed, but its like listening to a shortwave radio in a time warp when radio was live and local. I'll take that over VoiceTracking anyday.

Heck, XM 7 didn't even have a live DJ in their Washington studio when Donna Summer died - I actually heard it live on XM6 with Phlash Phelps. Sad that XM only VT their 70's and 80's channels now.

Oh, C'mon. The product is what's key - not the delivery system. The product is audio entertainment: music, talk, news, personalities. Who cares if it comes through a rusty tower? Your metaphor is totally off. Fine dining is fine dining whether you have dinner in the hotel dining room or order room service - have the meal catered or a really good cook prepares dinner in your kitchen.

Tell me, if I listen to a radio station's audio stream is that not radio?

I walked in to ABC today and found one marked down to 63 bucks for the office waiting area. Had an FM tuner and bluetooth.
Stereo speakers. Nice sound.

Set it up and, bingo!