It’s a good little device that works as advertised. But I think the overall process will confuse others. Like I said, the setup isn’t that hard for our average CrunchGear reader. Just don’t mislabel your playlist because I don’t think you can rename it. It does allow you to find and add to a playlist the stations you want to listen too. It isn’t the worst, but it could be so much better. This isn’t the best designed site on the Internet. Once that’s done, you have to jump online to setup a playlist. It took me a few minutes to discover you have to hold the appropriate button down to input a letter. Each button has a number and a set of letters assigned.
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That requires painstakingly entering the wireless access code via the remote. First you have to get it on the WiFi network – or just plug in an RJ45 cable.
There are numerous steps before this device starts streaming. The Not-so Good Stuff: I configured the radio tuner just fine, but I don’t think my moderately computer literate parents or friends could have done it as easily. Setting up the device’s software and adding the stations is something else. The device hooks up via analog cables to any AV receiver. Expect to hear the same quality as if you were to hook up your computer to your AV receiver and stream the radio station over the Internet. Don’t think this device will enhance the quality. The sound quality is as good as can be expected from Internet radio. This solved my problem and allows me to listen to every station I want via the extensive radio listings on the Aluratek website. I love listening to the radio, but I moved my office to a location where I can’t get any radio reception. This Aluratek radio tuner is just what I needed.