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Every station runs its own stream, so sometimes a station goes offline for a while or moves to a new address. Try another station first to make sure your connection is fine. If only that one station fails, the problem is usually on the station's side, and it often comes back by itself. On a weak connection, it can help to lower Settings › Preferences › Audio Quality.

Home shows the most played stations in your country, based on your device's region setting, and a list of genres. In Search, type a station's name, or pick a country or a genre to see its stations. You can combine all three. Search is forgiving: the words can be in any order, and accents don't matter.

From radio-browser.info, a free, public directory of radio stations that stations and listeners keep up. If a station is missing, or its name, country or logo is wrong, you can add or correct it on radio-browser.info, and Radion picks up the change from there.

Yes, with Premium. Most stations publish a stream link on their website, often under "Listen in another player" or "Stream URL". Copy it, then go to Library › Custom, tap + and paste it.

Yes. Logos come from the address listed for each station on radio-browser.info. Turn off Settings › Preferences › Station Icons, and every station shows Radion's own tile instead.

Radion doesn't come with any news. In Settings › Preferences › News Ticker you can add the RSS or Atom feeds you read — your local paper, a blog, your club. Their headlines run under the station's name in the player and appear under Latest news on Home. Tap a headline to read the story on the publisher's site.

Yes, with Premium. Open the player and choose the sleep timer. The music stops when the time runs out.

Identify listens to the station's stream for a few seconds and asks Shazam what's playing, so it works best while music is playing, not during talk, ads or jingles. Give it another try a bit later in the song. It doesn't use your microphone, so it doesn't matter how noisy the room is.

You can like a song once Radion has matched what the station is playing to a song on Apple Music. Some stations don't send song details at all, or only send the name of the show. Identify with Shazam still works on those stations.

Turn on Settings › Library › Apple Music Playlist, and Radion will add every song you identify or like to a playlist called "Radion" in your Apple Music library. Removing a song in Radion doesn't remove it from the playlist. To do that, edit the playlist in the Music app.

Listening to every station in the directory is free. Premium unlocks Favorites, your own stations by stream link, Identify with Shazam and the Sleep Timer. You can try all of it free for 3 days, then unlock it for good with a one-time purchase. There's no subscription.

Go to Settings › Premium › Restore Purchases while you're signed in with the Apple Account you used to buy it. Premium works on every device that uses the same Apple Account.

The trial belongs to your Apple Account, so you only get it once, even if you reinstall the app. When it ends, Favorites, your own stations, Identify with Shazam and the Sleep Timer lock until you buy Premium, a one-time purchase in Settings › Premium. Every station in the directory keeps playing.

Apple handles all purchases, so refunds go through Apple. You can ask for one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Turn on Settings › Data › Backup & Restore › iCloud Sync on each device, and make sure they're all signed in to the same Apple Account. Your favorites, your own stations, history and songs will then stay the same everywhere.

In Settings › Data › Backup & Restore you can export a backup file. Import it on another device, and choose whether to add it to what's already there or replace it.

Install Radion on your watch from the Watch app on your iPhone. Open Radion on your iPhone, and your favorites, stations and saved songs will show up on the watch. The button at the top of the watch's home screen lets you choose where the radio plays: on the watch itself, or on your iPhone with the watch as a remote.

To use the watch as a remote, your iPhone needs to be nearby with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi turned on. Open Radion on the iPhone once, then try again. Playing on the watch itself works without your phone, over Wi-Fi or cellular.

Connect your iPhone to CarPlay and open Radion on the car's screen. You'll find your Favorites, Recently Played, and under Browse the top stations in your country and your own stations.

Radion is a player. It finds stations in radio-browser.info, a free, public directory that stations and listeners keep up, and plays each one straight from the station's own server, using the stream link the station publishes for its listeners, as a web browser or any other audio player would. Radion doesn't host, record or rebroadcast any station, and it can't download or share streams. The logo it shows is the one listed for your station on radio-browser.info.

Radion shows what radio-browser.info lists, so the quickest way to change your station's name, stream or logo, or to remove it, is to update its entry there. Radion follows the directory.

If you run a station or own its content and have a question about how Radion plays streams, email ivkoroni@gmail.com. I'll answer promptly.