Zunerama Reviews the iHome ZN9 Clock Radio and Audio System

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.zunerama.com/zune-access...clock-radio.php

"The ZN9 is the world's first Zune clock radio, scheduled to be released July 2008. iHome, the venerable maker of iPod and other audio accessories, sent Zunerama a review unit to test out this week. With a boatload of features - including Zune adapter plates, gradual wake and sleep settings, separate weekday/weekend alarm times, multiple dimmer settings - we found a lot to like in the ZN9. And its $99 price tag doesn't hurt the wallet much either."



Harvey from Zunerama has cranked out a fast review of the iHome ZN9, a product we've been watching for a while now. Overall, he gives it solid marks and has no real complaints. I have a question though: do you program it to play specific playlists, or does it simply play a random shuffle all the songs on your Zune? Because there's certainly music on my Zune that I wouldn't necessarily want to wake up to...and some music on my Zune would probably lull me back to sleep rather than waking me up. Anyone know how this works?

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.zunerama.com/zune-access...clock-radio.php

"The ZN9 is the world's first Zune clock radio, scheduled to be released July 2008. iHome, the venerable maker of iPod and other audio accessories, sent Zunerama a review unit to test out this week. With a boatload of features - including Zune adapter plates, gradual wake and sleep settings, separate weekday/weekend alarm times, multiple dimmer settings - we found a lot to like in the ZN9. And its $99 price tag doesn't hurt the wallet much either."



Harvey from Zunerama has cranked out a fast review of the iHome ZN9, a product we've been watching for a while now. Overall, he gives it solid marks and has no real complaints. I have a question though: do you program it to play specific playlists, or does it simply play a random shuffle all the songs on your Zune? Because there's certainly music on my Zune that I wouldn't necessarily want to wake up to...and some music on my Zune would probably lull me back to sleep rather than waking me up. Anyone know how this works?

[Zunerama]

The alarm actually plays the most recent song (or podcast, interestingly) that you've played on your Zune.

So what I did last night is selected a song on my Zune that I want to wake up to, then paused that track.

In the morning the ZN9 started playing that song - from where I had paused it.

I believe when that song is done, it will continue playing through whatever playlist you previously had active - although I need to test that.