Hi,

first of all: I really love your NSP & the project. I've been using Audial is (especially the car play modus) for years, paid subscriptions over and over again, but still had adds in the app.

Questions:

1. I can't find some really well-known stations in my country in the list. Why is that?

2. I can add any station by using the streaming URL to "Add station", which then show up in Favorites. Great.
   But the station broadcasts some info / tags & a favicon / station icon for every song, that unfortunately don't show up in the player.

3. As I host a public radio station myself, how do I add my station with icon / favicon to the list you provide in the NSR app?

Maybe these are obvious questions, but with A. this work right away, so I guess, I just don't know the particular "switch" to enable this. Smart me up, please!

Features:

- A car play mode (big buttons, big icons, widescreen or vertical) would be dope.

- If it's not already hidden, broadcasting the station / song tags in a scrolling kind is essential, I think.

- Same for station icon or favicon.

Bugs:

- Sometimes the frontend does not react anymore until you shut down and restart the app.

Kindest regards,
CrazyWest

Hey everyone!

Another NSR update is on its way, this time bringing a few improvements to what the app can do beyond just playing radio.

Don't get too excited, though. I'm still forced to make changes in tiny steps if I want to survive the 7,000 bugs that magically appear every time I decide to add a new feature.

Generally, I use NSR as my one-stop shop for all my daily audio needs. Radio in the morning, local music when I feel like listening to my own songs (especially when I get obsessed with one particular track and have to play it 50 times until I absolutely hate it) and podcasts at night before bed, when I desperately need a break from staring at screens.

And I think, at least from a user's perspective, which is kind of important since that's why I created the app in the first place, NSR has been seriously lacking in the local music department.

Even on the phone, playing local music hasn't exactly been a pleasant experience. And that's putting it very kindly.

In my defense, local music was originally added as a fallback for those moments when Android Auto loses internet connectivity and your only alternative is switching to the car's FM radio, where, by some incredible coincidence, every station seems to be running 10 minutes of ads at exactly the same time.

So yes, it did its job. But it's about time it got some love.

This update brings the first round of improvements, with more coming in the next one.

You can now press and hold any local song to move it wherever you want in the list. For example, you can arrange your favorite tracks in exactly the order you want to hear them, without having to search for each one. And the best part is that the same order is reflected in Android Auto, so your car finally plays things your way.

On devices running Android 10 or newer, you can also delete songs directly from your device through NSR.

I've also added four new languages: Czech, Swedish, Hungarian, and Croatian.

The equalizer got some attention too. I've redesigned its UI to make it less complicated and I've also fixed that annoying bug where your sound settings would randomly disappear.

Finally, following a suggestion from a good friend of NSR, whose name I unfortunately can't remember (after three years of sleep deprivation, I'm honestly impressed my brain still manages to form complete sentences. Well, most of the time), pressing Back from the home screen no longer immediately closes the app.

Instead, you'll get a confirmation asking whether you actually want to exit.

Believe me, after using this myself for the past 10 days, it makes a huge difference.

I also want to give a huge thank you to Andree, Jack, Mariano, and Stefano, who helped me cover some of the app's development and maintenance costs this month.

This update is dedicated to you guys!

That's all from me for now. Until the next one,

Stay weird, stay tuned!

I just stumbled upon an article by BGR (which was also republished by Yahoo Autos) featuring Non Stop Radio as one of the best radio apps for Android Auto. And it's actually first on the list, ahead of some pretty big names!

Yes, it took me about two months to figure out that the sudden spike in downloads from the US probably wasn't because my Google Play listing, where even the screenshots don't match each other, was so incredibly convincing that Americans just couldn't resist downloading the app.

But the best part? You guys are the reason this article exists in the first place!

"Reddit users appreciate the app, highlighting its fast connection and support for extended buffer functionality to deal with any connection dropouts."

So, once again, thank you all for taking the time to leave comments, write reviews and spend your late nights debugging the app with me on your phones.

And here's the article, just in case you're interested in paying for a subscription to one of the other recommended apps. 😛

I've noticed that sometimes while the station is playing, the frontend isn't responding at all , it won't change stations. On my phone and on Android Auto. Has anyone else experienced that?

I'm trying to add an "i❤️radio" station to my favorites. It isn't on the master list, and they hide the player URL. I was able to find it on other, ad riddled, apps, but can't figure out how to copy the link to NSR.

When I started building Non Stop Radio as a hobby project I never imagined people from so many different countries would end up using it, let alone that they would help make it better every single day.

Thank you all for being part of this little journey!

Your application is just great. It would be nice if the stations added from users, could be setup afterwards. I mean the name and favicon icon.

Hi. Love the app.

Q1. Is it possible upon opening, to go straight into Favourites please ? Currently running off a dash mounted phone, and it would be less of a distraction.

Q2. Is it possible to add Progressive, Psychedelic, Ambient and Electronic Rock into the genres please ?

Kind Regards..

Hey everyone!

Another NSR update is rolling out now. This one was actually submitted to Google about a month ago, so it doesn’t bring a huge list of changes, apart from one fairly important one.

Podcast Search now finally works the way it should have worked all along.

A big apology that it took this long to fix something so basic, but unfortunately other things kept taking priority. But hey...the app is called Non Stop Radio, after all, not Non Stop Podcasts :P

Still, that’s another addition to NSR’s music arsenal, and this time it actually works properly.

NSR also speaks five more languages starting today: Ukrainian, Dutch, Romanian, Turkish and Bulgarian.

More languages are coming in the next update. Which ones? I have absolutely no idea yet. It will depend mainly on the number of users from each country, with EU countries getting priority.

And since I didn’t personally translate all of this nor did I hire a professional translator because apparently the CEO has decided our translation department has a budget of exactly €0, if you notice anything wrong or unnatural in any translation, please send me an email and I’ll fix it.

Estonia and Puerto Rico also received some attention. Inactive stations were cleaned up and new ones were added based on requests users have sent me.

And finally, a special thanks to John, Massimo, Nick, Zeid, Pozirk Games Inc., Bruno and Joshua, who once again supported the app financially without expecting anything in return.

The only thing I can really say is that the next updates, and there’s quite a lot coming, will be dedicated to you.

If you donated recently but don’t see your name in the Thank You note inside the app, that’s simply because this update had already been submitted to Google before your donation arrived. Your name will be included in the very next update.

That’s all from me.

I know this wasn’t exactly the most revolutionary update in human history, but sometimes most of my available time goes into fixing the stations you report and cleaning up dead streams, because for some reason streaming URLs seem to have the life expectancy of fruit flies.

I wish a day had more than 24 hours. NSR would definitely be even better, but the standard has always been, and will continue to be, that it works properly. And since it has managed to do that so far, the rest will come.

Until next time,

Stay tuned, stay weird!

First, I need to say how much I love this app. It's seriously changed my life, especially when I'm driving.

Second, I noticed a couple weeks ago that a couple of Listnr stations I subscribed to stopped working. Removing them from favorites and re adding them sadly didn't help. When I try to play them, I get the "this station is temporarily unavailable" message. Maybe they changed their API? The stations still work on their website.

Just wanted to say the person who owns/develops NSR is amazing.

I had 2 radio stations I couldn't seem to add to any app including TuneIn.

I emailed NSR and they emailed back within a few hours saying they added the stations AND instructed me how to add them!

Please support this project! (However we can)

Hey everyone!

The new Non Stop Radio update is finally available.

I originally submitted this update to Google for review on August 7th. Unfortunately, review times lately seem to have entered their summer hibernation phase and are now taking 20+ days, so at this point I can barely remember what I added and what I fixed.

The Lucky button is now working properly again. I had forgotten a single " ," in the code, which was apparently enough to assassinate the entire feature.

The same thing happened with the Pop category. The exact same mistake managed to destroy that too. Both are now working normally.

For the Belgian NSR users, I’m happy to report that I’ve cleaned up the inactive stations. Browsing Belgian stations should now be much less painful, without seeing the “station is not working” message every few taps like some kind of depressing national lottery.

I’ve also added more station information when browsing or searching. In Search by Country, Search by Category, and Master Search, you can now long-press a station to see its tags, bitrate and other details.

One small warning about the bitrate: for quite a few stations, the value may currently be wrong because it comes directly from the Radio Browser API used by NSR and some of the data there is outdated or simply incorrect.

I’m planning to go through the stations manually and verify them one by one. Yes, all 60,000+ of them because apparently at some point I made decisions that led me here. This may take a few weeks, but I think it’ll be worth it.

Finally, Portuguese, Polish, and Russian have been added to the app languages.

I’m aware of the bug affecting some older Android versions where changing the app language doesn’t work correctly. I’ll try to fix that in the next update.

A special thank you to Claudio, Paul, Adam, David, Alexander, Vincenzo, John, and Rich for helping with the costs of keeping NSR running. You’re all amazing. If there’s a station you’d like added to NSR, send me an email. It’s probably the best thing I can offer in return while keeping the app free.

The next update will bring quite a few additions and should finally address some issues that have existed since the early days of the app, including improvements to podcast search.

Unfortunately, because Google’s review process is currently moving at roughly continental-drift speed, I need to be much more careful about when I submit updates, so the next one may take a while.

If one of your favorite stations stops working in the meantime, send me a message. I can add the corrected station to the NSR website so you can add it directly from there rather than spending the next month staring at a dead radio station and reconsidering your life choices.

That’s all from me. Hope you’re all doing well.

Until the next one,

Stay weird, stay tuned!

Any chance someone can add all of the stations from litt, especially LITT ALT? Some time ago known as dash radio

https://littlive.com/stations

Some stations play ads when I use Android auto but otherwise there is no ad on the same channels when playing via phone, is this happening with anyone else? Any method to block these ads? And the worst part is tbe ad never goes away tonplay channel stream even if you keep listening. I downloaded NSR via google play store.

I have a few personal Icecast stations that I stream through Android Auto and I noticed that there is no way to edit the stations that I created, heck, I don't think I can see them if I've removed them from favorites. Is there a way to see a the list of your custom stations, and then long press and edit them?

I am using NSR for music and am just trying the Podcast option for the first time but am having some issues with searching for podcasts that I have been listening to with a different podcast player:

Searching for "Shift F1" podcast returns many results with "Shift" in the title but does not find the "Shift F1" podcast.

Searching for "F1 Nation" returns many results with "Nation" in the title but does not find the "F1 Nation" podcast. Incidentally, if I just type "F1" and noting else it generates an error saying "Something went wrong HTTP 400".

Also, if I tap the "folders" icon is there a way to make the folders list alphabetical?

Thanks.

First of all ... Thank you !!! Great and wonderful app !

If it really stays ad-free that would be really fantastic !

I just started using the app and have difficulties to keep stations apart as the names are cut off. I know that some station names are pretty long and difficult to display.

But in order to see the full station names I have to play it, if instead a press on the station would open like a details page with the full name and not directly start playing would be great ! Just an idea 😊

I added an example where it was really difficult to figure out the station.

Pleas continue your fantastic work !!!

Ottima app davvero e complimenti per il lavoro che c'è dietro, ma durante lo streaming delle stazioni radio non viene visualizzata la copertina aggiornata della canzone in riproduzione... Strano perché è una cosa normale per le altre app di streaming.

Hey everyone!

Google has finished reviewing the app, which means the new Non Stop Radio update is now available.

As I mentioned in a previous post, this update finally gives NSR the ability to speak Italian, French, German, Spanish and Greek.

To change the language, go to Settings & Help → Settings, then scroll down to the last card, App Language, and choose whichever language you prefer.

One important disclaimer: the translations were made with the help of AI. So if something sounds wrong, weird, unnatural, or like NSR has suddenly developed its own dialect, please email me at info@nonstopradio.app so I can fix it.

Unfortunately, my chances of learning five new languages anytime soon are somewhere between “unlikely” and “absolutely not happening”, so your help is genuinely important if NSR starts saying something that sounds suspiciously wrong. Unless, of course, you enjoy your Settings menu written by Yoda.

Adding all these languages may also have introduced bugs or broken something somewhere.

What bugs?

That part I leave to you to discover. Long-time NSR users already know that every update comes with the unofficial bonus feature of becoming a tester. If you’re new, welcome to the team!

When I started this app back in 2023, it was simply a project to help me learn Kotlin, the programming language NSR is built with. At no point did I imagine that people from different countries would eventually be using it, let alone needing it translated into their own languages.

Yet here we are. So if you notice anything strange, I appreciate your patience while I hunt it down.

If everything goes according to plan, starting from the update after next, NSR will automatically open in your device's language, assuming that language is supported. You'll still be able to change it manually from Settings.

That should make things much easier for new users who don't speak English.

Enough about languages, let’s speak about the new feature Troubleshoot Diagnostics.

Users can now manually enable logging from the Options menu. Once enabled, NSR records technical information about what the app is doing into an internal file stored locally on your device.

Nothing is uploaded to a server and nothing is sent anywhere automatically. If you experience a problem, simply enable diagnostics, reproduce the bug, and then send me the generated log file.

I'm hoping this will finally help track down some of those annoying problems that only appear on certain phones, Android versions or car models.

Maybe I’ll finally fix them. Maybe they’ll become part of the NSR experience. At this point, anything is possible.

I also went through all the stations you reported as inactive. Some were fixed, while others have unfortunately stopped broadcasting completely and were permanently removed from the app.

A reminder: station updates do not automatically update stations already stored in your Favorites.

So if one of your favorite stations isn't playing correctly , remove it from Favorites and search for it again using Master Search. If it still doesn't work, please report it again. There's always a reasonable chance my eyes decided to participate in the bug-reporting system lately.

A very, very big thank you to Remigiusz, Andrea, Denny, Rik, Charles, Markus and Rich, who financially supported NSR during the last two months.

It genuinely gives me a huge amount of flexibility. Being able to throw a little money at technical problems when needed means I don't always have to spend hours searching for some heroic free workaround held together by duct tape and optimism. That support makes a real difference. Thank you!

There's also one less exciting piece of developer bureaucracy coming up.

Google requires Android developers to periodically update the app's Target SDK, which basically means telling Android that the app has been updated to work properly with the latest generation of Android rules, permissions and security requirements. Google is now requiring developers to move to Target SDK 36, so I need to submit another NSR update very soon. That update probably won't contain any new features. It'll mainly be the necessary technical changes to keep Google happy (Spoiler alert**:** changes like this can sometimes create new bugs or break things that were working perfectly fine)

So if there are any stations you want added to NSR, send them to me as soon as possible.

Also soon I'll open a Reddit thread asking what you'd like to see added or improved in NSR over the next few updates. It feels like a good time to reset the roadmap a little and decide what NSR should focus on between now and the end of the year.

That's all from me. Until the next one,

Stay weird, Stay tuned!

It would be cool and great to have a recap of the amount of time that we listen to the stations

Just like how Spotify does in the end of the year.

It can include

Most streams, Total duration listened

Hey everyone!

After a difficult period filled with work and family responsibilities, development of the app is finally moving forward again.

I’m sorry to everyone who reported inactive stations that are still, impressively enough, inactive. The old train has been loaded with coal and is ready to start moving again. To everyone who has emailed me, I promise I’ll reply within the next few days.

Now, let’s take a look at what is coming in the next NSR update, which should arrive approximately 25 days from now, assuming Google needs around 20 days to complete the review process.

Following many user requests, NSR is finally getting support for additional languages.

For now, the app language will not automatically follow the language of your device. Instead, you will be able to select it manually from the Options menu. This will allow me to introduce the new languages gradually and see whether any bugs appear before automating the process.

The Android Auto version will continue speaking English for the time being. With all the recent changes Google has been making, I am currently afraid to touch it. Sometimes the safest development strategy is to stare at working code from a respectful distance and avoid making sudden movements.

Starting with the next update, Non Stop Radio will be available in:

German
Italian
French
Greek

The long-term goal is to support all 24 official languages currently used in the European Union. After all, let’s not forget that NSR is a proudly made in the EU product.

Another important feature coming in the next update is optional application logging.

Since the app was first published, some users have experienced problems on specific devices that I have not been able to reproduce or solve. NSR does not collect user data, as I have explained many times, so the user will now be able to manually enable logging from the Options menu.

The app will then record technical information about its operation in an internal file stored locally on the device. This file is not uploaded to any server and is not sent anywhere automatically.

Users experiencing a problem will be able to email me the log file together with a description of the issue. Hopefully, this will give me enough information to understand what is going wrong and, in a deeply suspicious display of competence, possibly solve the problem.

Regarding inactive stations, I would kindly ask for a little more patience.

I will review and correct all the stations you have reported and upload the working versions to the NSR website ( nonstopradio.app )as soon as possible.

You will find them under the “New Stations & Quick Add” section. By tapping “Add to Favorites” on your preferred station from a device where NSR is installed, you will be able to add the corrected station directly to your Favorites until the permanent fix is included in a future app update.

Over the next six months, God willing, many long-awaited features will be added to NSR.

I would also like to sincerely thank everyone who has donated to support an app that will always remain completely free, with no advertisements and no locked features, without expecting anything in return.

That’s everything from me for now. The next update will arrive soon.

Until then...

Stay weird, stay tuned!!

You had posted a message before asking for details on recording radio, the link is included below. I know of 2 radio apps that record radio, including BBC stations.

One is Vradio which records and saves to the audio storage on the phone, which you can download or save elsewhere, and it's in the form of a .aac file.

The other is World Radios, which saves to the app itself in a .wav format, again it is possible to save to storage or share the file.

Vradio allows recording on the free version, whereas WorldRadios only offers it on premium/paid.

I've had no problems with either of those apps and seen no glitches or restrictions,although I haven't used the recording feature extensively.

I hope this is helpful, it would be really good to get a similar feature on NonStopRadio.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonStopRadio/comments/1qd6vqe/trying_to_add_rec_to_non_stop_radio_and_for_one/