Customer Reviews
I Love This Thing! 
2007-06-27
It does what it says! I can record my favorite talk shows and listen to them when I want. The player could be a little nicer but it works fine. I get pretty good reception after I played with the placement of the antenna a little bit. If it's too close to the speakers and monitor, it would pick up noise. It is the best investment I have made for my pc in a long time!
Find another FM tuner for your Mac or PC 
2007-05-26
This was probably the worst investment I've made for my computers ever. The signal is weak, and if you're more than one wall indoors, forget about getting anything worthwhile. Unless you try one of the many hacks for increasing the power to this device or have an external power supply/antenna for it, you won't catch too many radio stations.
My advice: Stay Away from this product. There's a reason why it disappeared from store shelves so quickly.
Great concept.......poor software and reception 
2007-05-14
I bought this to record lectures that were broadcast over an in-house fm signal. I've done this before with a portable mp3 recorder and had fine results but thought I could set this up to do it automatically and have the files saved on my computer. I was disappointed that the recordings I made with the radioshark had static in them so the reception must be very weak. Also the software left alot to be desired. I ended up returning this product and went back to setting up my mp3 fm/recorder manually to do the job.
Love it 2007-05-08
Radio Shark is dead easy to set up and works every bit as good as advertised. True, you need to keep your computer on during the broadcasts, but I have no problem with that considering the superior functionality.
Lousy support by Griffin 2007-05-01
The hardware is great--it is simply a radio with a USB interface. AM and FM reception is great if you use a dedicated USB port on the computer (i.e. not a USB hub), and use a USB extension cable to get it farther away from the computer, which inteferes with AM reception.
However, the software and updates to the software from Griffin Technology are sorely lacking. The latest updates to Mac OS have rendered the Radio Shark software useless, and the updates and patches released by Griffin fail to fix the problem. I have owned this Radio Shark for 2+ years, and the software has never been properly developed to make full use of the advertised features.
I have been using Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba Software to run my Radio Shark, but it does not have any recording or time-shifting features. I'm hoping another company or gracious programmer will make some decent software for the Radio Shark in the near future. Until the software is fixed, I would not recommend purchasing the Radio Shark.
Great gizmo 2008-04-30
I have an AM/FM radio in my office but it's always a pain changing the volume when I'm on a call and it's obviously impossible to 'pause' it and not easy to record anything... This solves all those problems... AND it came with an extra USB extension cord so you can place it near a window or otherwise away from your computer equipment for better reception- this is even more important for AM reception since virtually all electronics cause interference in the AM bands.
Plus now if I take a call or walk away from my desk I can just 'pause' it and when I come back later I can skip over the commercials.
It's also completely USB powered so there's no extra power cord needed.
Worthless Junk 2008-03-29
I installed this on my office computer & could not pick up a single station on AM or FM band, I tried re-installing it, re-positioning the device & all I ever got was static. I took it home & tried to install it on my desktop & laptop---nothing but static. My $9 clock radio works fine in the office, but not the Radio Shark. I live in a major urban area with plenty of stations within range & even plugged into an external antennae this junk would not work. Please note the range of customer reviews on this product---most people have given it bad to mediocre reviews. It is a total & complete waste of money.
RadioShark 
2008-01-12
The RadioShark does what I want it to do. I live in an area where it is easy to get the radio stations that I listen to. The two stations that I wanted to be able to record from come in good, so the time shifting feature is great for me. Distant stations don't come in very well and would guess you need an external antenna to improve that.
The only problem I have had is the pausing of live broadcast and then starting up later as it doesn't seem to work for me. I tried the suggestions that Griffin support sent me, but no change in behavior. The direct record of a broadcast does work, so this is what I could do if need be.
I'm on a Mac and have downloaded the latest version (2.0.2) for OS 10.4 from Griffin.
Problematic, though eventually decent. 
2007-09-29
Does not work that well with the drivers that comes with it. Lots of background hum and other audio distortions. It works mildly better with the updated drivers on griffin's website. Works pretty well if you download the drivers for the RadioShark 2. Pretty expensive original price though.
Great item for the price. 2007-09-07
I got the radio shark to replace my stereo that died. It not only does that but adds a radio recorder to my tools. I can save audio recordings directly to iTunes. There is updated software that enhances the radio shark experience, but it also leaves out one or two features from the old software version I thought should be carried on to the new.
Dislikes are it is not the best on reception, but local stations come in very clear. Wish it had a way to connect to an external antenna. This would help in boosting the reception part.
Overall a good buy and a cool way to have what the old macs had. One more point is that it is stated on the package it is for 400mhz G3 macs, but is recommended for G4s and up. I have a 700mhz G3 and it seems to work just fine on it.
