Audials for Android lets you play and record thousands of radio stations
I listen to non-fictional audiobooks usually when I'm out of the house and not music which most other smartphone owners seem to prefer.
That's the main reason why I don't stream music, be it from a service such as Google Play or Internet Radio, to the device as well.
If you have different preferences, you may find Audials for Android interesting. The application makes available more than 63.000 radio stations from all over the world that you can tune in right away and even record to your device.
How it works? It could not be simpler. You install the app, start it, pick a station, and it plays right away. If you want to record, you hit that button in the interface and that is that.
Stations are sorted by genre, top40, smooth jazz or rock for example which leads to a list of stations sorted by country. Each station is listed with its name and either the song that is currently playing or general information about the genres it favors.
A search is provided as well which you can use to find a particular station of interest. What's interesting here is that you can search for song titles or artists as well.
The selected radio station plays in the foreground and background, and the app remains responsive no matter what you do.
You can easily browse all available stations while a station is playing and the music is being recorded in the background as well.
Songs that have been recorded are displayed in the interface giving you options to play them again locally at any time.
Recorded songs are saved to the a subdirectory of the music folder named after the station it was recorded of which means that all recordings are available to be played in other music players as well.
The frontpage of the app lists the radio stations that you played last time and your recordings so that you can tune in right away again or play locally stored songs from there directly.
Options
You find plenty of options to customize and configure the application to your liking. You can set minimum and maximum desired bitrates for example, enable the play only with WiFi option, or use the built-in sleep timer to stop playback after a certain amount of time.
There is also an option to add radio stations manually to the application. While it is unlikely that the database it ships with misses many, you can use the feature to add your favorite station to the app if it is not supported by default.
Another interesting feature is support for airplay receivers and Chromecast, so that you can use it to stream music to another device using those products.
Conclusion
Audials is a well designed application for Android that offers the total package. Its support for stations is massive, it enables you to record stations to save songs to your device, supports airplay, and is very responsive in all of that.
If you are looking for a radio app for Android, this should be at the top of your list.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?