About this app

Listen to 131 Blues radio stations on your smartphone.

Goodies:
Complete, free, high quality, simple, customized, handy with timer and alarm clock, clever with a service in background and an automatic failover from WiFi to Wireless 3G/4G (and vice versa).

In details:
- Free: A simple WiFi or 3G/4G connection is enough

- Radios: 131 Blues radio stations from all around the world. Radio streams are in high quality (128 kbits/s)

- Simple: A single button to launch the radio and pause it. Simply select the radio to listen to it ! Display artist and song you listen to.

- Notification: Browse radio list feature once the radio is selected in both notification and bottom sheet panel

- Dark mode available

- Custom: Define your own list of favorites in a flash

- Timer: 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60 (1h), 90 (1h30) or 120 (2h) minutes. Note that you can choose to pause the current radio or to close the whole application when the timer ends!

- Alarm: Repeat the alarm on preferred weekdays and customization of the alarm duration: 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes

- Gentle wake-up with a gradual increase of the alarm volume

- Handy: Navigation indexed as for your phone contacts

- Search a radio by its name in all app (minimum 3 characters, with or without accent)

- Clever: Your last selection is saved for each tab (including Favorites)

- Service: The radio is launched as a service in the background and allows you to do something else (write e-mail, read a newspaper, play online ...)

- Calls: The radio is muted when you make or received a call and automatically restarts at the end of the call

- Silent: The radio stops when the headphones are unplugged (depending on the models of headphones and phones)

- Music: The radio stops when you want to listen to other music or radio via other applications

- Automatic: The radio is automatically restarted when switching from WiFi access to 3G/4G and vice versa

- Contact: Feel free to contact me by e-mail (jerestev.dev@gmail.com) to send your comments, questions or suggestions on missing radios!

- Languages: Available in English and in French

- Permissions:
* Internet to listen to radio
* Network state (3G/4G and WiFi) for automatic failover
* Smartphone state to turn off the radio when the earphones are unplugged
* Detection of the phone restart to configure the defined alarms
* Detecting an incoming or outgoing call to mute the radio during conversation

- Note: The proposed radios can be temporarily unavailable! Indeed, the stream may be inaccessible when radio owners update them. If the radio can not be loaded, please try again later. Finally, radio loading time depends on the selected radio.

New features

- Upgrade to Android 12. Add & update obsolete radios streams for a total of 130 radios.
- New radios: Party Vibes Blues, Sunset Blues Radio, The Joint, WBRS, WDCB 90.9 Jazz & Blues.

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.