Noxon2Audio - Internet Radio Without a PC

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/1528/noxon2audio_internet_radio' target='_blank'>http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/1528/noxon2audio_internet_radio</a><br /><br /></div><i>"If you've been looking for a streaming audio player to match your new iMac mini (or not), look no further than the Noxon2Audio. Available at the end of October, the €199 (about $238 USD) device is capable of not only streaming music from your Windows or Mac PC, but can tap into Internet Radio and download firmware upgrades – via WLAN or Ethernet – without a PC connection. But wait... it gets better! Noxon2Audio claims to be able to playback Windows Media Connect DRM10-protected files – sorry guys... no Apple FairPlay support at this time."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/noxon_noxon2audio.jpg" /><br /><br />Cool idea. It supports streaming MP3, ID3 V1.0 / V2.0, M3U PLS and WMA-9 (up to 320 kBit/s) unprotected and DRM10 protected. And I really feel that the price tag is justified. I believe that XM radio service is usually quite expensive and this seems to be much cheaper in comparison and with more and more Inernet Radio channels available now, this might be a worthy buy (unless I am missing the purpose of this device).

[jeffd]

If you want a smaller "radio", just buy a pocket pc. ;) I have a nice set of powered sony bookshelf speakers next to my bed, and I plug my pocket pc into it and fall asleep to the all 80's internet station every night. ;) I use a wifi card to connect and GSplayer as the software, mainly because it has a shut off timer function, but it also has many features and one of the better connection tolerence systems of PPC music players. You can even use Iexplorer to search shoutcast, but its a bit troublesome with how much of the page you can see at once. Generaly I just spent a night saving the playlist of the radio stations I like, and just double click those in explorer to change stations.