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An Internet radio device is a hardware device that receives and plays audio from Internet Radio stations or a user's PC.
The devices which are currently on the market mainly support MP3 (MPEG2 Layer 3) Streaming and Windows Media Audio (WMA). A few also support RealAudio , Ogg , and Apple's AAC.

Internet radio devices can be divided into several product categories:
  • Products which are mainly targeted at listening to music stored on a local network. These devices are usually called network music players. These devices are usually sold with server software in order to play the music from the network. Examples of such devices are the Slim Devices Squeezebox2, Roku SoundBridge and the Philips Streamium WACS700 and SLA5520. Some of these devices also have the ability to listen to Internet radio stations. As these devices may not have an integrated loudspeaker, they need to be connected to an audio system in order to listen to the music. These devices usually have an Ethernet and/or Wi-Fi network interface.


  • Standalone products like the Squeezebox, Reciva , SoundBridge Radio or Streamit Internet radio devices which are targeted at users who do not want to be dependent on a computer (or computer knowledge) for their Internet radio listening. Most products include a dynamically updated stations list. There are variants of these devices with and without integrated speaker(s). They normally connect to the Internet via the user's broadband connection using an integrated Ethernet and/or Wi-Fi network interface.