VRadio Online Radio & Recorder

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Description of App

From the App Store: "VRadio is a free radio app that lets you listen to thousands of radio stations online.
Find your favorite radio stations and discover many other from all around the globe. VRadio gives you instant access to many terrestrial radio stations that transmit via the Internet and of course to lots of web-only radio stations. All of the radios are streamed via the internet.
So, what makes VRadio stand out from all the other radio apps? Following are the most notable features. Have a look:
● Wide variety of radio stations of different music genres and categories.
● Information about the currently playing song whenever the radio station supports it.
● Rearrangeable favorites and custom (user) stations lists.
● Recording of your favorite radio talk shows and music. .
● Remote playback to Chromecast devices.
● Ability to add your own radio stations. (User Stations)
● Ability to change the behavior of the app from settings.
" A good thing about v-Radio is when you record something, it's accessible in mp3 via the files app, yay!

Version

2.2.2

Free or Paid

Free With In-App Purchase

Apple Watch Support

Not Known

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

16.1.1

Accessibility Comments

This app is quite accessible upon testing, and the recordings go in a folder in your files app, and they're in a playable format.

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

I really like this app. Unlike ootunes, when you record something with v-Radio, you can do whatever you want with it, whether it be listen to it, or export it to another folder, or put it on a flash drive or a cloud storage. About time there was a radio app like this! They don't have as many stations as I'd like, but if you know the direct streaming URL, you can add it manually.

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Moopie Curran 2 years ago

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Comments

By Amir on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 08:13

Interesting app. Does this offer Apple Music/iTunes integration? I mean can it display the currently playing track in Apple Music? I'm also looking at Triode which is quite feature-rich and accessible, but it doesn't offer recording.

By Moopie Curran on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 08:13

I don't use apple music, but I don't think it offers that integration.

By Amir on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 08:13

Thanks. Triode offers this, plus the ability to add station names to Siri which is quite useful.

By gregg on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 08:13

since of the database it comes with the app is fairly small, it's a real good feature to be able to add your own stations. I have mixed success with adding stations from inside apps. Basically, it was more difficult than it was worth. However, going to the webpage and finding the play button, worked well using safari or any other of your favorite browsers. I had tried adding it from a file, and .m3u format etc. worked. I wonder if it will except zip files. I was unable to test that feature.

By Moopie Curran on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 08:13

Hi,
I don't know if it will accept .zip files as stream URL'S. There's only one way to find out, try it, you can't hurt it, that's my motto when teaching people, and trying things. :) If I had a .zip file of such M3U'S, I'd try it myself and report back, but I don't. I admit, a long time ago, I cheated, I added a bunch of favorites to my victor reader stream internet radio favorites list (since they use attunes, and I can get the direct URL), and I exported that list into I think it was a pls file. I then played this file on my Mac in VLC, cleaned it up a bit (it had duplicates of almost every station, boy, that was tedious, I'd rather not have to do that again). Then I exported it to an m3u playlist, and added it as a user station in v-Radio. Mind you, back when I did this, v-Radio was on android, but I assume the same steps would be relevant on iOS.

By Moopie Curran on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 08:13

Hi, When you say you've had success in adding stations from webpages, do you mean something like WCBS or WINS? Or any of the CBS big-name stations? They really seem to be tricky in finding the URLS. I don't much care for these embedded web players some of these stations use now-adays, just give me a URL or better yet, an m3u, so I can listen in the player of my choice, for crying out loud. :)

By gregg on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 08:13

those webpages that use the pop-up players I haven't got to work. What does work, if you press the play button, it actually comes up with the iOS player. Those work.