On Mar 11, 9:05 pm, wrote:
I cannot believe it but I have been unable to find a wi fi internet
radio in a single bricks and mortar store in the Los Angeles area
including Best Buy, Radio Shack, Target, etc., etc. Any suggestions.

Fry's stocks the Roku and Squezebox. Both do radio and play streamed
music. I was able to get $50 off the Squeezebox using a special code
and directly ordering from Logitec. I think it was "whiteisnice" and
you had to buy the white version.

The Squeezebox needs to plug into high fidelity equipment, i.e. think
of it like a CD player and tuner. The Roku can do both, i..e it has
some cheesy speakers if you want boombox sound. The Squeezebox is
about twice the cost, but very high quality. It also supports FLAC
streaming. That is, you store your audio in FLAC format on your hard
drive. The software can stream the FLAC as I states, or convert to MP3
on the fly if you want to stream over the net rather than your LAN.
The Roku doesn't support FLAC.

If you go to www.sourceforge.org, there is a software emulator for the
squeezebox called softsqueeze. This lets you emulate the box to make
sure your network and software are working before you buy the box. If
all you want is streaming radio, you can get that just by attaching it
to your wifi and logging into their network.