# Advice on a WiFi radio receiver

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-a-wifi-radio-receiver/563925>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 12, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-a-wifi-radio-receiver/563925 "2010-12-12T22:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-a-wifi-radio-receiver/563925/1 "2010-12-12T22:59:20Z")

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The internet is great for shopping if you know what you want, but merchants can’t be bothered to tell you what things actually do. I am looking for a a device that connects to the house WiFi and allows me to browse for an internet station and feed the resulting signal into my stereo receiver. So what I want is the WiFi version of a tuner. I’m sure it exists, but when I search for something like, there are loads of hits, but they don’t explain what the devices do.

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**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-a-wifi-radio-receiver/563925/2 "2010-12-13T01:50:19Z")

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Roku used to sell a product called the ‘SoundBridge’ - I love mine. Try the Google for ‘internet radio tuner’.

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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-a-wifi-radio-receiver/563925/3 "2010-12-13T01:55:52Z")

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Squeezebox — the low end (cheapest) one is called Squeezebox Radio Player. It’s WiFi, and the radio is supported by the web site [mysqueezebox.com](http://mysqueezebox.com)  
[Google Shopping - Product not found](http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=Squeezebox&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=11099814424705570963&ei=2HwFTY2SDZKynAew1MnlDQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDkQ8wIwAg#)

I have the Squeezebox Touch and love it. It has a few more features than the Radio Player.

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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-a-wifi-radio-receiver/563925/4 "2010-12-13T06:24:07Z")

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Another vote for the Squeezebox. I have the Squeezebox Boom (3 of them actually) and while it sounds fine with it’s own speakers, it also has a 1/8" stereo output jack to connect to a stereo. The Squeezebox Radio probably has one too, and the Duet and Touch are specifically designed to be connected to a stereo.

Of course, an iPod touch would work also.

A [recent thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=587797). Someone there [recommended a Livio](http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-audio-receivers-dars/livio-radio/4505-6470_7-33658724.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody)radio.