Did you give your squeezbox back to the shop? I’m just having the same problem as you had. My computers function well with our in-house WLAN-connection. But his thing – although having worked well for the first 3 months – is now a pain in the neck. It loses connection to the server all the time, even if I put it next to the WLAN-device.
That’s annoying.
How did you have your problem solved?
Thanks for a short answer in advance.

Klaus

I love having internet radio in the kitchen – French, Swiss, English – it’s the best.

It is the most unreliable electronic product I have ever bought. Turns off at will. Software is awful and unintuitive. Needs weekly reboots – I mean pulling the plug.

Rubbish but a taste of a future that will be great when reliable

I got ripped off by purchasing an internet wifi radio of lesser quality, and now I can’t get an AM radio station I really want to listen to because it streams using AAC+. I see from this review that the Squeezebox Radio accommodates AAC. Does anyone happen to know if it accommodates AAC+ as well?

Thank you so much,

Allen Ayers

Every time it disconnects, from what I’ve experienced so far, I have to go thru this process of “finding my network,” “trying again,” and re-entering the 26-bit security key, sometimes numerous times until it reconnects. And if for some reason it can’t “find” your network, i.e. you don’t see it in the list of networks, you have to enter it manually. Granted, I don’t know if my ISP / router or the SB Radio is to blame, but it is very frustrating to say the least. Also, like another commenter stated, it should just “work.” Period.

Also, when it disconnects from the internet, it can’t even function as an alarm clock, which is partly why I purchased this b/c the buttons on my “old school” alarm clock / radio were not functioning properly. If you press the Alarm button on the SB Radio, it tells you that it cannot detect an internet connection. What does the alarm clock have to do w/the internet!?

All in all, I think this is a pretty neat device when it stays connected to the internet. However, it is a frustrating pain in the butt when it doesn’t. I will give this a few more days to see how it will perform. The main issue I’m having w/it is just consistency. Yesterday, it stayed connected for the entire evening, sleep mode, and even woke the next morning to the alarm. However, today, I’ve had nothing but problems w/it and trying to stay connected to the internet. But based on how I’m feeling right now, I’m planning on returning it, considering now that I’m finishing this comment, I’ve attempted at least 3 times to reconnect but to no avail.

When we bought this unit, we were looking for a simple tabletop radio that could play internet radio stations and podcasts. We certainly didn’t expect the unit to REQUIRE that you run a server on your computer for it to function.

We’ve had this piece of trash now for 3 months and we’re about ready to toss it. In the last 3 months, we’ve had 3 firmware upgrades, and the unit still doesn’t function properly. When you buy a radio, you expect it to play your favourite station until you either change it, or turn it off. The Squeezebox Radio stops playing at random intervals, we’ve seen it reboot itself multiple times per day, we’ve seen it lose the presets, the problems with it just go on and on and on.

It’s been on the market for 9 months now, and it still doesn’t provide basic functionality, i.e. as a tabletop radio. I’m about ready to throw the device in a drawer and forget about it. It is the single worst technology purchase we have made in the last 5 years.

Don’t just walk away from this, RUN!

I have the original Squeezebox from SlimDevices and love the technology.

If you just rely on it for internet radio then I guess you may have a “brick”, but this “brick” will always be able to play your music off your home server.