like I lived through the brick to flip phone to smartphone era, but I can’t remember what features I was looking at on these flip phones when I was deciding which one to buy. do you guys remember?
I honestly miss that in modern handheld devices. A lot of radio stations aren’t even available as Internet radio, and if they are, there’s often no common search database (except iHeartRadio, except fuck iHeartRadio) so you have to manually input the stream URL, and a lot of them make it a pain in the ass to even find the stream URL on their site.
In short: fuck Internet radio. FM’s where it’s at.
Edit: Sorry, I should have specified: I’m in the US, specifically the Midwest.
I don’t know its source for stations, but Transistor has direkt links for many German radio stations and probably other regions too.
I still vastly prefer FM, DAB or Satellite radio, but when those aren’t available Transistor is a nice alternative.
Sorry, I should have specified: I’m speaking from the perspective of a Midwestern American.
It seems to also have american stations, I’d recommend you still give it a try.
You can also try https://f-droid.org/packages/net.programmierecke.radiodroid2/
Seems like it’s no longer maintained, but it works fine, has search, sleep timer.
It uses data from https://www.radio-browser.info/
It’s all FOSS
