We really wanted to like this product. We had high hopes for a product that plays both music and images, by the home networking industry leader at a price point of less than $150. We had hoped this would be the product to put networked media devices on the map – it just isn’t the device to do it. There are just too many design flaws and performance issues.

While several competing products can play Internet radio stations, uncompressed WAV files and other compressed formats, the WMA11B is limited in the audio files it can play – only WMA and MP3.