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The CC WiFi gives you an American style of Internet Radio. The CC WiFi combines straightforward style with all the convenience of tuning in over 11,000 radio stations from around the world. The CC WiFi radio has excellent audio in a small footprint that fits nicely on a desktop, kitchen counter or bedside table. There's a headphone socket for private listening and a line-out for use with your component speakers. Features 99 memory presets, remote control, an alarm clock, and an Ethernet port for a hard-wire network connection.
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- Search by location and genre at the same time- Ethernet input jack for direct connection to a router or line out jack
- 99 presets, clock with 5 alarm settings
- Sleep timer, remote control
- Wirelessly streams music or audio from your pc or mac.
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By CMB (Salem, Oregon)
This is the third internet radio I have returned (I also posted reviews of the Aluratek and the Grace Allegro). I am forced to conclude that this is an entire product category that is just not ready. As for the Ccrane: like the Grace, some of the stations which I supposedly could get via reciva did not come in; but it does get stations that stream in Real unlike the Aluratek. The sleep timer is tedious to operate, requiring several menu steps. The remote didn't work most of the time -- I literally aggravated my repetitive stress tendinitis repeatedly pressing the button in the hopes of turning the unit on or off or getting through a menu. But ...after 2 days it simply would not connect, first to my network and then when it connected to my network it couldn't connect to the reciva server. I tried everything including resetting to factory defaults and reconfiguring. My network was working fine and I could not see any indication that the reciva site was down. Back it goes
** UPDATE**
see my review of the refurbished Asus EEE PC 900A -- a netbook that will do the job (except maybe alarm clock...)
By Berk (Kamiah, Id)
I was excited when I found this little radio! My only choice for any station in this remote area of Idaho was a local "country" station...no news...etc...
Finding this wifi radio on the Internet provided through CCrane was as exciting as my first date. Shaking, unsure and afraid I'd make a mistake, I called them....they held my hand as I stepped into the age of wifi radio. I would have paid double or more to have access to all my stations available in another state I had moved from.
It is trouble free and easy to program. I suppose I could have waited for a competitor to manufacture a cheaper version, I'm sure, but who cares at this point of total isolation without news, I could not wait for them....
The sound and volume control is great....I only wish I had more control of the back light....
By P.M. Reynold (NJ, USA)
Our first one lasted less than a year before the LCD display died. C Crane finally agreed to replace it. The replacement unit just died. It will only turn on about half the time, and it will not respond to the remote when it is on. Yes, the remote battery is okay...
By AudioEngineer (San Jose, CA, USA)
APPLE AIRPORT EXTREME users: If you use an Airport Extreme, do not expect any brand/model wifi radio to work with it in wireless mode. This issue has been documented by others in these Amazon reviews, and was confirmed by a C Crane technician. The radio may fail to connect to the router, even when my MacBook Pro running iTunes placed next to the radio joins and runs just fine. (Though I've known for months now that iTunes running on a Mac doesn't stay connected reliably for an 8 hour stint.)
Now about the C Crane radio: I like the design of this Wifi radio better than any other I've handled so far. Easy to set up and use, room-filling sound (for voice), line out AND headset out jacks, great for music when connected to stereo or iPod speaker set, perfect size, great controls, Receiva and Pandora support.
The C Crane staff are really picky about audio quality. The audio on the line out and headset jacks is clean and solid, CD quiet when no audio signal is present. This is important since we use it connected to our component stereo system most of the time. The speaker seems optimized for voice, and though the radio's case is small the speaker can easily fill a 200 square foot master suite with your favorite morning talk show.
I had a heck of a time trying to keep the radio joined to a wireless network on my Airport Extreme, and thought it was a defect in the radio. Turned out to be the Apple router, there is nothing wrong with my radio. I connected the radio to our Linksys WRT54GX router and have been running the radio now for three days and giving it a real workout with no problems whatsoever. No way it could perform that well joined to the Airport network.
What could be improved on this radio? The display format - I don't need a continuous display of "128 kbps WMA". I'd like to see track data in the second line so I can use it to purchase music, without a wild dash for the computer to see what is currently playing. Also, if the first tier customer support staff were better clued in on router issues the reviews here would have a lot more stars.
We have several component stereo systems in the house, and I look forward to equipping each of them with this C Crane radio.
By James Bynum (Fall River, MA, US)
I just purchased a CCrane Wi-Fi radio. It's a neat little product for the money. However, it has a BIG problem - the radio turns itself on spontaneously. When I called CCrane this afternoon, I was told that it was a router problem. I disagree. Like millions of others, I have a very common Linksys 802.11g router. If the radio can't work with it, the problem lies with the radio, not the router.
C Crane could not tell me which routers their radio will work with, nor do they have plans for a firmware update to correct the problem, according to the representative I spoke with.
If I had it to do over, I'd buy a radio from a different maker.
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