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Features
- Connects your home stereo directly to your Internet without the need of a computer
- Listen to over 18,000 AM / FM free radio and HD stations including Pandora, NPR, CBS
- Save up to 10 station presets on the front of the radio and included remote control (alternately supports free iPhone/iTouch remote App)
- Built in wireless 802.11g (Wi-Fi) connects to any wireless (802.11b/g/n) broadband router in minutes
- The GDI-IRA500 connects to your home stereo via the built in RCA left and right connectors
Product Description
Over 17,000 free radio stations from local to around the world including NPR, Pandora(R) & BBC, plus SIRIUS(R) premium Internet radio service Connects directly to home stereo or any audio device that has audio input connections Save up to 10 presets & 100 favorites through the 4 line backlight display Includes full size remoteAmazon.com Product Description
The Grace Digital Solo Wi-Fi Internet Radio Receiver is a combination Internet radio receiver and audio media streaming device that brings all the audio content of the Internet to your stereo system. With it users can listen to 18,000+ radio stations from NPR, FOX news, CNN, BBC, CBS to KROQ, and over 35,000 podcast as well as On-Demand subscription streams or your personal Pandora radio stations seamlessly from their home setup. Additional features include the ability to stream files from local computer networks, compatibility with the free Grace remote control App for iPhone/iTouch and alarm clock functionality.
Convenient Access to Online Music in Your HomeAM and FM radio stations all over the world stream their audio content over the Internet. Grace Digital Audio's "Solo" product line of Wi-Fi Receiver and Media Streamers allow you link this massive amount of free content, as well as a variety of pay Internet radio services, conveniently and efficiently to your stereo or home entertainment system. Setup is simple, all you need is access to a broadband Internet connection and a wireless router. Acting like any wireless device, once configured to the Wi-Fi signal(s) available and its security, if any, the Solo Wi-Fi Receiver provides quick access to literally thousand of Internet radio stations and podcasts from your home stereo without having to fire up a computer. In addition, users can listen to the hottest premium online music services like Pandora, Live365 and Sirius*.
Easy access to thousands of free and premium Internet radio content streams without using a computer.
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Plug and play home stereo/entertainment center integration.
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Full functional remote included.
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Support for optional iPhone/iTouch remote app.
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The Grace Remote control application, available for free on iTunes, allows you to go where no IR remote has gone before. Control one or more of your Grace Internet radios from your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can change the volume, turn it on or off, find stations and set presets or even set any one of your five alarms. Grace Internet Radio Models Feature Comparison
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(GDI-2000)
(GDI-IRD4000)
- Internet radio to your stereo
- Remote Control
- Entry level price
- Great sound quality
- AUX in jack
- Built-in smart battery charger
- Remote control w/ Pandora
- 5 alarms w/snooze bar
Although their are thousands of Internet radio content providers available through the Grace Audio Solo product line, a few of the main players users can expect to gain access to immediately through the Grace Digital Audio Solo include:
Reciva brings the world of 17,000+ Internet radio stations into your home. Access to an extremely diverse range of Internet radio stations from around the world, with broadcasts from nearly every country on the planet. FREE 
CBS RADIO is one of the largest major-market operators in the United States with stations covering news, sports, talk, rock, oldies, country, adult contemporary and urban formats, among others. FREE 
iHeartRadio delivers America's favorite radio stations online at www.iHeartRadio.com and as an application on your iPod Touch, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android Phones! Enjoy music from across the country in real time--all for FREE! FREE Pandora radio is the personalized Internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites. Create custom web radio stations all for free or subscribe for an advertisement free listening experience. Free or Premium Sirius is the original 100% commercial-free music Satellite radio service and official home of the NFL, Howard Stern, Martha Stewart and NASCAR. $2.99/mon (w/current subscription) Featuring 260+ genres of music produced by 5,000+ broadcasters and music tastemakers from over 150 countries the LIVE365 radio networkoffers greater breadth and depth of high-quality streaming music, talk, and audio that any other network. FREE or VIP Pricing 
MP3tunes offers an online music Locker which can be accessed from any computer or web-enabled device so you can enjoy your music at home, work or school via a Wi-Fi radio. FREE 
NPR delivers breaking national and world news. Also top stories from business, politics, heath, science, technology, music, arts and culture available via a Wi-Fi radio. FREE Specifications - General
- Listen to over 50,000 radio stations, podcast, and on demand content
- Supports online music services: Pandora, Live365 and premium Sirius Internet radio
- Compatible with the Grace iPhone / iTouch remote control application
- 4 line high contrast backlit display
- Displays station, song title and artist info
- Full function remote with 10 presets
- 10 presets on the radio + 99 station folder
- 16 Language Menu: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Japanese
- Audio
- 3.5mm Stereo headphone jack
- High quality RCA jack stereo connectors
- Built in dual band equalizer
- Supported audio formats: AIFF, AIFC, WAVE, CAF, Next, ADTS, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA
- Supported playlist formats: ASX, M3U, PLS
- Supported streaming protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, RTSP, WSMP, Shoutcast
- Built in media player streams your audio files from your PC or MAC
- Networking
- True 802.11g wireless connectivity
- Works with all 802.11b/g/n routers
- Supports WPA personal, WPA2-AES, and 64/128-bit WEP encryption
- Clock and Alarm
- 12 or 24 hour clock with date and time auto synched via the Internet
- 5 individual alarms with the option to wake to buzzer or music
- Set each alarm for daily, weekly, weekend, week days or one time
- Sleep timer: 30 seconds to 23 hours
- 30 backlight brightness settings
- Large snooze bar
1-Solo Wi-Fi Internet Radio Receiver, 1-remote control, 1-power adapter, 1-user's manual. One-Year Limited Warranty
All Grace Digital Audio products purchased in the United States of America are supported by a conditional warranty. This item is guaranteed by Grace Digital Inc. for a period of one (1) year from the original date of purchase. This guarantee covers the replacement of equipment that proves to be faulty as a result of manufacturing faults only. No liability can be accepted for faults arising from accident or misuse. About Grace Digital, Inc.
Founded in 2007, Grace Digital Inc. is based in San Diego, California. Grace Digital Inc. innovates a wide variety of award winning communications convergence technology products for business and consumer applications. Capabilities include everything from product design and engineering, to manufacturing, marketing, distribution and supply chain management. Grace Digital's far-reaching distribution network spans from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, and their vision is to create technologically advanced, yet elegantly simple communications convergence products, together with a commitment to the highest levels of quality, service and support. *Sirius subscribers have to upgrade their service to Premium Sirius Internet Radio.
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Customer reviews
What a great product - Pandora and 17,000 stations on my home stereo 
by .. Angela Sue (Dallas, Texas United States)
The Grace Solo internet radio does a great job connecting the world of internet radio to my home stereo.
The Solo is good looking and connects simply out of the box. Plug in the power, connect the standard rca cable to your stereo, turn it on, choose your home network and within 5 minutes you are listening to Pandora or one of the 17,000 radio stations. While Grace has many models of standalone table top radios, I like the Solo because it connects directly to my home stereo (or even powered speakers). The solo even has a headset jack.
When you first take the Solo out of the box, you see the Solo internet radio tuner, a power cable, manual, remote and rca cable to connect to your stereo. It uses WiFi to access the internet. Make sure you have Wi-Fi in your home, and that it is strong in the area you put the solo. The Solo does have a built in Wi-Fi signal meter to see how strong your Wi-Fi is. So if you put it on the bottom shelf of your stereo system and notice a weak signal you may want to put it on a middle or top shelf. The Solo works with any 802.11b,g or n router and has a built in 802.11g receiver.
After you connect to your wireless network (you will need your wireless WEP or WPA password to do this) and set the time zone on the clock, the Solo remembers everything (including station presets) when you unplug it. That is nice because no one wants to type their wireless password in more than once.
Once you are set up you can start searching for stations by genre or location or type the call sign of the station directly into the radio. You can do this via the remote control or directly on the unit itself. I like Pandora. In order to listen to Pandora you have to register your radio at Grace's web site [...] . After you create a Grace account you enter in your Pandora user name and password on the Grace site and the radio is linked to your Pandora stations. Within a minute your Pandora stations are on the Grace radio in the `personal radio' folder. Pretty cool. You can create stations on the Grace Solo, although I prefer to do that on the Pandora web site. Grace plays SIRIUS and Live365 as well but I do not have SIRIUS or Live365 VIP accounts so I can't comment on that.
I really love the Grace unit. I get all my local radio stations #my FM reception is bad at my house but my favorite FM stations - most do these days - broadcast over the internet .. so I get those, Pandora, NPR and I even started listening to the BBC 4 which is kind of cool#.
Obviously I give this a 5 star. The only negative I would say is that on a few random stations they do not show the song metadata (they all show the station metadata). I'm not sure if that is because the station is not sending it or what. You get the station and song metadata for Pandora which is the most important for me. Oh - you can even thumbs up or down Pandora songs .. very of cool.
Pandora to Stereo - Great Solution, Great Price by .. Mark A. Krosse (Westport, CT USA)
I have an older stereo receiver driving a whole house built-in speaker system across multiple rooms. I needed an inexpensive way to connect my stereo receiver system to internet radio stations and other digital audio sources.
The Grace Solo exceeded my expectations; it is a very affordable internet radio solution (as little as $99 from Sears). It provides internet streaming function including Pandora that is only now becoming available on high-end AV receivers costing $1,000 or more (eg Onkyo NR807). It is also much less expensive than a $350 Sonos ZP90 for the same function.
I bought it for its Pandora support, and for its free Iphone / IPad remote control application. (Solo's free Iphone/IPad control app trumps the Myine internet radio alternative)
Things I really like:
* The accompanying product manual is very helpful (also downloadable at the Grace Digital website)
* Once the Solo device was set up and registered, It was easy to connect to Pandora and navigate to my previously defined Pandora channels
* The free IPad / Iphone control app immediately found and connected to the Solo on my wireless network from anywhere in the house
* Super cool, the Grace remote control app on IPad / Iphone can display the album art of the music currently playing on Pandora, changing with each tune
* I can most easily customize Solo content: add podcasts, search for & add internet radio stations, and other media streams at the grace-reciva website from any computer
* Podcast support works - eg, I set up a connection to "This American Life" podcast over the internet
* The Solo is software-updateable over the internet and can display wifi signal strength for problem determination.
* Solo navigation is straight-forward, similar to the hierarchical navigation approach of an IPod
* Although Grace Digital tech support doesn't appear to answer their phone, they were pretty responsive by email with about a 2 hour turnaround time on a Tuesday.
* Setting presets on the device is easy - just hold down a preset button while the source is playing - just like a car radio preset button
* The Solo supports connectivity to a UPnP media server
Things that are somewhat annoying:
* Grace support website forums appear little used and lack very much helpful content
* Setup can be a little glitchy - I had to power cycle several times for initial connection and also to obtain the registration key (needed for Pandora authentication)
* There doesn't appear to be a way to rename the built-in folders for better navigation clarity: there is "Internet Radio", "Personal Radio" and "My Stuff > My Stations"
* There doesn't appear to be a way to rename an internet radio station - you take what is named at the grace-reciva website
Despite the annoyances, Solo is a great value. I plan to add Sirius internet radio and experiment with Solo's UPnP media server support to connect to my Mac and to a NAS music library.
UPDATE: I was able to easily connect to my iTunes library via a UPnP media server application on a Mac, Playback by Yazsoft ($15). Playback is designed to work with iTunes. The Solo immediately found the Playsoft UPnP application on my wifi network and connected with my iTunes library. The Solo's navigation of the iTunes library is very similar to an iPod.
Works great on my Screen Porch by .. Gloria E. Wilson (Albany, Ga.)
Bought this to connect to a Sony Boombox...one of the job site rugged ones.... I leave this and the Boombox on my screen porch year round and so far no problems. Wireless reception works great with my Linksys wireless N router. ...I plan to cover this up with a zip loc bag when I think about it to keep dust and pollen out, that's why I wanted something this small and inexpensive......... I have other internet radios ....Squeezebox and Roku Radio so I was already familar with internet radio stations. The Receiva site was new to me but same stations...I also subscribe to Pandora and simple to link this to my paid account. I buy my MP3s from Amazon and keep them in both Windows Media Center and itunes and it was simple to use this as a media server for Windows. Wish this would work with Rhapsody, that is the only thing I would do to improve it.
This is a great little internet radio tuner by .. Sam Amori (Dallas)
The Grace Solo (GDI-IRA500) works great in my house. I have been listening to Internet radio on my computer for years. Finally with the Grace Internet radio I now listen to all my music directly on my home stereo. It was a breeze to hook up. It connects to my stereo with the included rca cable just like any DVD or CD player. After you turn it on you just type in your wireless network password and it connects in less than 30 seconds.
The sound is great. Of course the sound is only as good as the station that is streaming on it. So stations with lower bit rate don't sound as good as stations with higher bit rate. But one of the nice features on their web site is the ability to search for stations by bit rate - then you can save them directly on the web site to your radio. That's cool. Saving a preset on the radio is easy too, just press and hold the preset button while listening to the station (just like a car radio). Its great that this has Pandora too. The other internet radio adapter I was looking at didn't have Pandora or any buttons on it which is why I bought the Grace, and I'm glad.
I have an iphone and downloaded the free Grace iPhone remote control app. I can search the database, choose or save a preset on the radio, even thumbs up or down a Pandora song from any room in the house directly on my iPhone!
The Grace Solo certainly is a great value. I get to listen to all my internet radio stations on my stereo with no static or noise like my FM radio had. I even get Pandora, listen to NPR podcast, and a free iPhone remote control app...
Pretty cool!
Great Technology by .. Carrie L. (Portland OR)
Just recieved my Solo from Grace Digital. This is my 3rd device from Grace digital. I bought this device to hook up to my home stereo system. Couldn't have been easier. RCA cords into my stereo tuner, scanned for my 2wire router, entered the WPA key and I have music. Pandora streams perfectly.
Works great with my Grace iPhone application