Eter: Streaming Internet Radio

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Description of App

Eter Radio is an app for listening to Internet radio stations. Eter Radio is available in a universal version for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS.
Eter Radio uses the publicly available radio-browser.info database, which contains a collection of free and publicly available Internet radio stations.
Eter for iOS, iPadOS and macOS offers a hand-crafted list of recommended stations and the ability to search radio-browser.info for other radio stations. To be able to add them to your list, you must unlock the program with a one-time In-App Purchase. (The price in the App Store may vary depending on the country and the local currency rate).
Use Eter for free to listen as long as you like to any station you like (in the radio-browser database) on any Apple device, including in your car with CarPlay.
Upgrade Eter with a single one-time in-app purchase to:
- Save favorite stations so you don’t have to search each time.
- Hide the recommended stations & just see your own list.
- Set a sleep timer to drift off to calming tunes from anywhere in the world.
- Support the continued development of this app.

Version

2.2.2

Free or Paid

Free With In-App Purchase

Apple Watch Support

Yes

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

18.2

Accessibility Comments

Perfectly accessible with VoiceOver. It even provides actions.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

With its $4.99 price tag for features like saving stations and hiding the recommended stations, Eter provides a cheaper alternative to Broadcasts. It uses the publicly available radio-browser.info database.

Recommendations

2 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Amir Soleimani 1 month 2 weeks ago

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Comments

By Amir Soleimani on Monday, January 6, 2025 - 19:31

Greetings. If you mean automatically displaying the song name on the screen when something is playing or asking Siri about it, then yes to both. I always see the name of the song which is being played on the screen.

By Dennis Long on Monday, January 6, 2025 - 19:31

I'm 99% sure it doesn't. It doesn't require microphone permissions which would be needed. If you could please contact the developer and request this it would be nice. It would also be nice if when identifying the song with Shazam if Voiceover would read out the result.

By Amir Soleimani on Monday, January 6, 2025 - 19:31

Why don't you test it yourself if you have Shazam installed? I don't have it, and the app itself is free for such a test. Once you test it with Shazam, we can ask the dev for additional support.

By Dennis Long on Monday, January 6, 2025 - 19:31

Shazam is not supported..

By Amir Soleimani on Monday, January 6, 2025 - 19:31

So I'll ask the dev. It doesn't matter to me as I don't use Shazam and Siri always does the job, but Shazam support, if added, would be a nice bonus.

By Dennis Long on Monday, January 6, 2025 - 19:31

Thanks I appreciate it. it would also nice if voiceover would out the result when it appears on screen. Hopefully this dev is responsive. It appears they respond to reviews.

By Dennis Long on Monday, January 6, 2025 - 19:31

there is no way to reorder your favorites. I contacted them about that.

By Dennis Long on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 19:31

at this time I can not recommend this app.
1 as a voiceover user you have no way to reorder favorites.
2 There is no ryme or reason on how they sort stations when you add them as favorites. so if you add 5 stations station 3 may be the second in the list.
Yes broadcasts is $5 more but a far better app in my opinion. Note if the developer makes the improvements I suggested this could change. If it changes I will let you know. But we should certainly have the same capabilities as sighted users. We don't at this time.

By Amir Soleimani on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 19:31

To each their own. I can't recommend a $10 radio app whose major benefit is being able to re-order favorites. I'm perfectly happy with the current feature set given the price.

By Dennis Long on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 19:31

the stations when going into your favorites don't appear in any particular order. now we'll see as times on if this changes. Where this could be a problem is if you have more then a couple of stations. You may have no idea where they are in the list. You may add a new one it might be in the middle of your list.

By Dennis Long on Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 19:31

Version 2.3
We're excited to bring you Eter 2.3, with new features and improvements you’ve asked for, along with the ongoing bug fixes we add to every release. Um,
until we run out of bugs! Here’s what we’ve added:
Shazam Support
- You can enable Shazam automatic song recognition in Settings. Once activated, Eter will periodically use Shazam on the stream audio to enhance song metadata
in the player, improving recognition accuracy. This means you can see what’s playing (and choose to copy it to the clipboard or open in Apple Music) even
when the stream does not provide track metadata.
- Permissions: Shazam requires microphone access, but within Eter, it only listens to the audio being played through the app, not your actual microphone.
- By default, Shazam recognition will be enabled for all favorite stations. You can customize this by enabling or disabling it per station in the favorites
list; tap the Edit pencil to see this and other per-station settings
Note for Voiceover users tap
"edit Station"
Additional Enhancements
- Added a preference to choose whether newly added favorite stations appear at the top or bottom of the list.
- Fixed an issue where new stations added to the top of the list didn't always appear in the first position.
It is worth noting actions are even better supported. You are able to do things such as reorder favorites , add to apple music, copy track artist and title to clipboard all via actions. All buttons are clearly labeled and it is 100% accessible with Voiceover.

By Saj on Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 19:31

Have to say that this app seems pretty cool, it would be great if one day it could support recording content but I don’t know if it could extend to this in the future. I seem to recall otunes had this feature for awhile.