OK, my 2 cents on this discussion. First, my alarm reliability has been perfect since I went away from the "sound effects" and am using a sound file on my local server. Hopefully the other work is making the basic reliability of the alarm 99.99%. As far as the back-lighted buttons, drop it! They made that decision as part of the cost-point trades in the design of the Radio, and it's done. It's too late to add at this point. Also, I've never had a bedside alarm/clock radio that had back lit buttons anyway. My use case is to turn the alarm off. I use the power button. I find the pop-up dialog rather useless - even though my radio is on my night stand, I can't clearly make out the dialog, let alone manipulate things to select a particular action when I'm just waking up. The Power button is easy to find by feel - I press it, and I'm done. For Snooze, I think pressing the big knob is fine. I don't currently use "snooze", but that would be intuitive and easy enough not to defeat the purpose (get me a few more minutes before I have to think... push the button, go back to sleep for a few minutes......) I DON'T like the idea of rotating the Knob Left or Right for particular actions in this case - I think it would too easy to "miss" the desired action. I don't currently use the "just play" alarm case, but I can see the usefulness. In that case, I'd think "do nothing" would be fine... do I understand that currently there is some type of "alarm timeout" where this stream would stop after 60 minutes? That doesn't seem right - or should be configurable. I can understand wanting to use the alarm to start a stream playing at a particular time, and I wouldn't want to have to deal with it just stopping after some timeout. As far as the time display and the dialog, I agree a better clock would be useful here. I don't know if it would be acceptable to put a big clock on the Pop-Up dialog? Get rid of the dialog all together, or make it optional? If there are default key-presses for Alarm Off (POWER Button), Snooze (Push Big Knob [within 60 sec of alarm "start"?], "let it play" (do nothing), then allowing the user to disable the alarm prompt would enable most/all reasonable use cases? In this case, your "now playing" screen saver can already be configured with a big clock if desired (I use the Custom Clock for my screen saver when playing).
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