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Jason Dunn
06-13-2008, 02:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.zunerama.com/zune-accessory-review-ihome-zn9-clock-radio.php' target='_blank'>http://www.zunerama.com/zune-access...clock-radio.php</a><br /><br /></div><em>&quot;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.&quot;</em><br /><br /><img border="1" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/zt/auto/1213307385.usr1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />Harvey from Zunerama has <a href="http://www.zunerama.com/zune-accessory-review-ihome-zn9-clock-radio.php" target="_blank">cranked out a fast review of the iHome ZN9</a>, 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
06-13-2008, 07:07 AM
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.