{"id":58636,"date":"2024-01-06T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58636"},"modified":"2024-01-06T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T14:31:49","slug":"the-yoto-player-chris-unconventional-wifi-radio-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-yoto-player-chris-unconventional-wifi-radio-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yoto Player: Chris&#8217; Unconventional Wifi Radio Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Yoto-PLayer.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58637\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Yoto-PLayer.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Yoto-PLayer.webp 1296w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Yoto-PLayer-300x213.webp 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Yoto-PLayer-1024x727.webp 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Yoto-PLayer-768x545.webp 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Yoto-PLayer-624x443.webp 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Chris, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hello Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As a long time SWLing Post reader, I wanted to pass along something you and your readers might find interesting in the subject of internet radios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">While I have many MW and SW radios in my collection, I have reluctantly researched some PORTABLE wifi radios recently with the full knowledge that the satisfaction of catching a marginal broadcast signal no longer exists with this technology. But I have stumbled upon a PORTABLE internet radio that is not marketed as an internet radio, and it was right under my nose (or at least in my house) for a year before I discovered this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As a father of two young children, I recently purchased a Yoto Mini player for them and a Yoto Player for myself (well, for them too):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.yotoplay.com\/yoto-player\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/us.yotoplay.com\/yoto-player<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This was after the realization that aside from the juvenile look to the Yoto, it fulfills all of my requirements of a portable internet radio player that the big players like Sangean, Ocean Digital, Lemega, and others cannot seem to attain in one product:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>24 hour battery life, rechargeable<\/li>\n<li>very strong WIFI connection that covers whole house (can be BT speaker too, for those who use that)<\/li>\n<li>much better sound and solid build<\/li>\n<li>simple operation<\/li>\n<li>no dependency on the status of online station database (** more below)<\/li>\n<li>$120 or less ($70 for Mini)<\/li>\n<li>other &#8220;tech&#8221; features people might use, but not necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Essentially, you place a credit card sized content card in the Yoto, it reads the song information by RFID, and downloads it from your online account so that it can play pre-recorded books or songs with or without internet connection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">HOWEVER, you can add radio station URL links to be &#8216;burned&#8217; to a Yoto card as well and connect to those radio stations through the player. I have tested this and it works. Some use cases are that you could place multiple stations on one card and select which one from the Yoto (each with a custom graphic image to identify the station), or you could put one station on each Yoto card to feel more like you&#8217;re actively switching stations. Or you could put different genres of radio stations (music, talk, etc.) on a different card.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There are easy ways to find the actual URL of a streaming radio station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If some people are looking for an internet radio that connects to a worldwide station database, the Yoto does not do that. But I don&#8217;t see myself needing that, because I would rather just add my favorite 5\/10\/20+ stations and jump between those. Connection status or retirement of online station databases seems to be a common source of complaints in the internet radio reviews I have read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Please tell me your comments, and\/or feel free to post this as a discussion topic on your blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thanks,<br \/>\nChris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wow&#8211;I was not familiar with this device, but as you say, in a sense it&#8217;s a very robust interactive audio device with incredible battery life. I like the fact that so much of it can be used offline as well. I&#8217;m sure readers will have some comments and questions! Perhaps you can share more of your experience <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-yoto-player-chris-unconventional-wifi-radio-alternative\/?swcfpc=1#respond\">in the comments section of this post<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Chris, who writes: Hello Thomas, As a long time SWLing Post reader, I wanted to pass along something you and your readers might find interesting in the subject of internet radios. While I have many MW and SW radios in my collection, I have reluctantly researched some PORTABLE wifi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4652],"tags":[999,9231,4724,10413],"class_list":["post-58636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wifi-radio","tag-internet-radio","tag-internet-radio-hacks","tag-wifi-radio","tag-yoto-player"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ffK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15041,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/radio-kiribati-now-streaming-on-the-web\/","url_meta":{"origin":58636,"position":0},"title":"Radio Kiribati and WiFi Radios","author":"Thomas","date":"October 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul Walker, who writes: Thomas.. 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