Streamlets for macOS - An Internet Radio Player

[majasp]

Hi all 👋🏻

I'm the maker of Streamlets for watchOS and something I’ve been planning to do for some time is build a version for macOS, I’m pleased to say it’s being released this week, with a public TestFlight available.

What I wanted to address 6 years ago with the watchOS version was to listen to my favourite BBC stations on my watch while running. With the macOS version I wanted to provide quick access to my favourite stations from around the world and importantly (to me), provide rich metadata, especially on BBC stations.

The first release is with Apple for approval now, and shortly going in to public beta is the rich metadata for BBC stations (image examples below).

I know there's quite a few radio apps on the mac, people may already be happy with what they have but if this fills the gap that it has for me, then great 🙂

In summary, it'll be released with the following features included;

• Search over 50,000 radio stations from across the world.
• Save your favourite stations for quick access.
• Play in the main app window, tuck away in the menu bar or play with the visual artwork view.
• Sort each countries stations by either popularity or name.
• Supports Icecast for live ‘now playing’ details.
• Supports rich now playing artwork.
• Supports BBC rich metadata, including now playing, DJ and show details.
• Quick links to Apple Music, Spotify and Youtube for the current playing track.
• Ability to add your own radio station (handy if the station is not in the database).
• Initial localisation support for English (UK/US) and German - with more languages to follow.
• Built entirely natively using SwiftUI.

 

[kkclstuff]

wow, thanks I was just bemoaning the death/loss of the good old days of radio and the absence of apps over the past 10yrs or so—the death of iTunes Radio streams was the beginning of the end to me.

Im curious do you as the developer have any control thru your app to regulate the volume of commercials?
so many of the internet stream have screaming ads that to be honest—if your relaxing to something quiet—its beyond off putting, it make you put it off. Love to know if you have a cure or if a 'plugin' Limiter/Compressor could be developed to use with the app.

looking forward to trying your app👍

 

[bogdanw]

Could it be possible to search through all the countries?
The text in the countries list could be bigger.
Possible bug: toggling “Show in Dock” creates multiple main windows.

 

[kkclstuff]

ditto^^

it would be very interesting to type a style/or instrument and search 'globally'

 

[cflem]

This would also be a killer AppleTV app.

 

[majasp]

wow, thanks I was just bemoaning the death/loss of the good old days of radio and the absence of apps over the past 10yrs or so—the death of iTunes Radio streams was the beginning of the end to me.

Im curious do you as the developer have any control thru your app to regulate the volume of commercials?
so many of the internet stream have screaming ads that to be honest—if your relaxing to something quiet—its beyond off putting, it make you put it off. Love to know if you have a cure or if a 'plugin' Limiter/Compressor could be developed to use with the app.

looking forward to trying your app👍

Hi, great idea!

I've implemented some user options that can detect if;

1) Volume has increased for the last 5 seconds - we'll then assume an ad is playing or;
2) Music track detection has ended (no song playing) - we'll assume DJ is talking or an ad is playing

For either of these, it will then reduce the volume to a % level set by the user and then restore the volume again when the next song kicks in.

This will be in the next TestFlight version (just struggling to get the initial app approved with Apple right now).

 

[majasp]

Could it be possible to search through all the countries?
The text in the countries list could be bigger.
Possible bug: toggling “Show in Dock” creates multiple main windows.

View attachment 2615164

Ouch - thanks for the feedback, will get that fixed.

 

[majasp]

ditto^^

it would be very interesting to type a style/or instrument and search 'globally'

The Radio browser database I use has 'tags' which is used for 'styles' - i can implement that, it's built in to my watch version. Thanks.

 

[majasp]

This would also be a killer AppleTV app.

Noted, I'll consider it 🙂