ARIATONE Radio

The sound

The station’s own samples, exactly as it sends them.

On a lossless station, Bit-exact glows green once the station’s own samples, 16-bit or 24-bit, reach your browser exactly as it sent them: nothing resampled, equalized or turned down on the way.

• The EQ

  An EQ you can see

  Bass, mid and treble, or a seven-band parametric EQ drawn over the live spectrum, with listening profiles to start from. Auto headroom keeps any boost you make from clipping.

• Bit-exact

  A lock on the original

  Bit-exact locks the EQ, Crossfeed and the volume out of the signal path, and that’s how AriaTone Radio starts. Unlocked, it lights up whenever nothing you’ve set changes the sound.

• Crossfeed

  For headphones

  On headphones each ear hears only its own side. Crossfeed lets a little of each side reach the other ear at low frequencies, as it would from your speakers, so the music sits in front of you rather than inside your head.

• Lighter streams

  When your connection can’t keep up

  AriaTone Radio plays only lossless and very high quality streams. When a station keeps cutting out, it offers a lighter stream of the same channel, from the same station, which needs much less of your connection.

The stations

A player, not a station.

Every note you hear belongs to the station playing it. AriaTone Radio plays the stations you choose, and suggests a few to start with: the developer’s preferred listening stations, all of them lossless and bit-exact, from people who care how they sound.

• FLAC · 16-bit · 44.1 kHz

  Radio Paradise ↗

  An eclectic station from California, listener-supported and ad-free. All five of its mixes play here, rock to ambient.

• FLAC · 16-bit · 44.1 kHz

  Naim Radio ↗

  From Naim, the British hi-fi maker: three ad-free channels of music chosen by people, jazz and classical among them.

• FLAC · 16-bit · 48 kHz

  Czech Radio Jazz ↗

  The jazz channel of Czech Radio, the Czech public broadcaster: commercial-free, around the clock, from Prague.

Radio Paradise runs on its listeners’ support. If you love what you hear, support it on its site.

Bring your own

Any station, by its address.

Paste a station’s stream address and AriaTone Radio plays it first, as a check, and keeps it once it plays. FLAC streams play bit-exact, 16-bit or 24-bit; MP3, AAC and the rest play through your browser. A station’s name picks its colors, the way a word does in AriaTone Mix’s prompts.

While it plays

What’s playing, and how it reaches you.

• What’s playing

  The song, as it plays

  Each song’s title and artist over the waveform, with its album, year and cover where they’re known, and a line saying how it reaches you: the station, the format, and whether it’s bit-exact.

• The lock screen

  Plays on with the screen locked

  The station plays on with your phone’s screen off or locked, as a music app does, and your lock screen and media keys show the song, its artist and cover, and start and stop the station.

• The visuals

  A look for every mix

  Each mix opens with a look of its own, in the station’s mood. Immersive view clears the controls away, leaving the visuals and the song.

• Privacy

  The music never goes through our server

  No sign-in and no email. Your browser connects to each station itself, and your stations and sound settings stay with this browser, for you alone.

No sign-in

Made for good headphones or speakers.

A phone speaker can’t play the deep bass, the stereo width or the detail in your stations. In your browser, on a phone, a tablet or a computer: add it to your home screen and it opens full screen.

Open Aria Tone Radio

Free, with no sign-in: open it and listen. Your stations stay in this browser.