Radio
Search and play internet radio from around the world. Favourites stay on your device.
More tools · by niek.li
Search and play internet radio from around the world. Favourites stay on your device.
More tools · by niek.li
Search internet radio from around the world and play it right here. Tap a station to start; the bar at the bottom lets you pause, set volume, cast, or switch stations, and shows the current track when a station broadcasts it. The star saves to your favourites, Recent keeps your last plays, and the page address updates to the playing station so you can bookmark or share it.
Data. Stations come from the open, community-run Radio Browser directory, fetched through this site's own server — so your searches stay between you and niek.li and aren't exposed to the directory.
The stream is direct. Audio can't be relayed without huge bandwidth, so when you press play your browser connects straight to the station — which means that station can see your device's address. Search is private; playback is a direct connection, like opening any other web link. By default only secure (HTTPS) stations are listed; you can switch on HTTP stations too — the player tries each over a secure connection first, so most play right here, and only the few that can't fall back to casting or copying the link. Streams that drop are reconnected automatically.
Casting. The plain cast button uses your browser's own picker — Chromecast on Chrome, AirPlay on Safari — with no third-party code. The button marked G uses Google's Cast service: tapping it loads Google's Cast SDK and contacts Google, so it asks first and is kept separate on purpose. On browsers that can't cast at all (such as Firefox), a copy-link button appears in the same spot instead — share or paste the stream into an app like VLC, which can cast it.
Favourites & your own stations. Saved only in this browser, on this device — never sent anywhere. Drag the handle to reorder, or use A–Z above the list to sort any view. Add station lets you paste a direct stream URL that isn't in the directory. Because everything's local, Backup downloads one file with your favourites, recently played, track history and volume, and Restore reads it back (older favourites-only files still work).
More. Recent lists stations you've played; Track history (foot of the page) logs the song titles you hear. Surprise plays a random station from the current list. Keyboard: Space play/pause, ↑/↓ volume, ←/→ previous/next station, / search. HLS stations play through a small decoder that loads only when first needed.
Privacy. No accounts, no cookies, no tracking, no ads. Installable as an app. See the full privacy page for what every tool sends and where.
This button uses Google's Cast service. Continuing loads Google's Cast SDK into the page and contacts Google to reach your Cast devices.
If you'd rather not involve Google, close this and use the plain cast button instead — it routes to Chromecast (on Chrome) or AirPlay (on Safari) through your browser, with no Google code.
Paste a direct stream URL — an .mp3, .aac or .m3u8 link not in the directory. It's saved to your favourites, on this device only.