Livio Radio puts Pandora in a box

(Credit: Livio)

The new Livio Radio certainly isn't the first Wi-Fi radio to feature Pandora access--the Squeezebox Boom and the Grace GDI-IR2000 both offer the functionality--but it's certainly the first model seemingly designed around the streaming Internet music service.

With a standard tabletop radio design, the Livio gives you full access to Pandora, and also makes it easy to interact with the service by putting "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" buttons on the front panel and the remote. The Livio can connect to your home network using either the integrated Wi-Fi or the Ethernet port around back. In addition to Pandora, the Livio Radio also features the ability to tune into more than 11,000 standard Internet radio stations. We're also happy to spot an auxiliary input on the back, making it easy to plug in an iPod in a pinch. We also can't complain about the price, a reasonable $150, but we're reserve our final judgment until we actually get to listen to it.

Livio Radio photos

[jbuberel]

Just for the record, the Squeezebox line now features support for all of the following services:

Rhapsody.com
Pandora
Last.FM
Classical.com
Napster
Slacker
Mediafly

...as well as a few others. I've got two of them at home I like 'em so much.

[BOTNET]

Squeezebox Boom is almost $300, this is $150 .... let's throw SONOS into the comparison mix

[donsms]

Is mono the new in thing or what?

[jordanlivio]

Part of the Livio's charm is it focuses purely on doing one thing right, which is to play Pandora. There are other options such at the 11,000 (+) internet radio stations that Livio Radio streams. There are numerous genres and specific stations for a wide range of music, making it unnecessary to include several internet music stations. One of the main reasons Livio only focused featuring Pandora is to keep the radio affordable. Even though the Livio Radio is mono, it has the capability to plug into any stereo system with ease, and will still project music. On behalf of Livio Radio if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at [e-mail] or you can look at our website at http://tinyurl.com/blog-jnl .

[justsignmeup]

Thanks for putting another piece of rubbish out on store shelves. The sound quality really couldn't be much worse. Another POS from China that people are willing to put their names on. Brilliant.