Aluratek AIRJ01F USB Internet Radio Jukebox
by Aluratek
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Customer Review: Music Galore!
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't believe this technology. I just plugged it into the USB port on my laptop at home that's connected to internet and the media browser automatically launched giving me instant access to music stations all over the world. I love the search by region feature which looks sort of like google earth and it allows you to simply click on the region you want to access then lists all the available countries. I use other free internet radio websites but I have yet to find something like this that organizes all the available music by country and genre for you and best of all no advertisements. This is an awesome product and very cheap.Customer Review: No longer at the mercy of my browser
Summary: 5 Stars
At first, I didn't think it made sense to pay for something that I can get for free, since you can listen to most if not all of these stations via your browser. There are two things I see as reasons to pay for this. First, all the stations are nicely categorized and easily accessible via this device. Second, and most important, whenever my browser crashes or freezes up, the music keeps playing since I am not accessing the music via my web browser. That happened twice today.
I have Vista and this works fine. You have to deal with Vista's nanny-like security features, but that is not unique to this product.
Customer Review: Could be better
Summary: 2 Stars
This item works in the fact that you can listen to a lot of things are very far away from what a regular radio will pick up. How ever the Menu is very time consuming,it does not work fast and takes time to find the station you are looking for. You must filter through stations to find what you like, and the genre lists are not very effective at finding what you like. Some times it has a bad signal and switching stations is not intsant. I got this as a gift for some one who is not very proficient with computers and they have trouble using it, there are free services that are better than this device. Hope this helped good luckCustomer Review: Great little device
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought the Aluratek because radio reception in our community is low, and I also wanted to have easy access to European stations. It works quite easily, both on my laptop and older desktop- the software is occasionally fidgety, but not too much of a problem. Once I set up my favorites list I can switch between NPR, CBC-Ottawa, news from Ireland, Hungary, Norway, etc. Best of all I can receive Classic FM from the UK, which is restricted to UK residents over the Web. The sound quality is not at CD-level and even with a high-speed cable connection it cuts out every once in a while, but not any worse than a normal radio.Customer Review: Internet Radio, Sometimes
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a neat little gadget but, it's frustrating to use at times. It installed OK and worked very well (the first time.) Now, every time I want to use it I have to figure out some new way of getting it started.
There are NO instructions of any kind so you're on your own and, once installed, I still have not figured out how to get it to tune the entire spectrum of stations. It displays a few stations when it opens and I still can't figure out how to get to other stations that it has but is not displaying.
It looks like a neat little gift idea but you are buying a bit of frustration.