Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. An Internet radio device, also commonly called network music player is a hardware device that autonomously receives and plays music from a computer, Internet radio stations or online music services via the home network. Before audio compression technology took the world by storm in the past decade, most digital music was sold on CDs. CD audio is an uncompressed form of digital audio file. Because uncompressed music files are large, they are impractical to transmit across the Internet quickly or to carry around on a portable music player.

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