High Fidelity
Radio Player

Yes. The site is a fully static page with no backend, no accounts, no cookies and no analytics. Audio processing runs entirely in your browser via the Web Audio API. Presets are saved in localStorage on your device. The only external connections are the radio stream you choose, the station search API (radio-browser.info), optional CORS proxies and anonymous A-ads ad iframes.

Because radio is already paid for: public broadcasters are funded from taxes, commercial stations from advertising and music-licence fees. This player adds studio-grade processing to those free streams, so you can skip another monthly bill, avoid an account and keep your listening habits private. A well-encoded station (256–320 kbps AAC/MP3 or FLAC) matches a standard subscription stream, and the expander/exciter restore much of what broadcast compression removes.

No. Processing cannot recover frequencies the codec already discarded. The expander restores dynamics that broadcast compression flattened and the exciter/air shelf add harmonics so lossy highs feel restored, but a 320 kbps or FLAC stream always carries more real detail than 128 kbps. For best results choose the highest-quality stream a station offers.

Probably not everywhere, which is why it is off by default. Muting or altering advertising can breach a broadcaster's terms of use, may be unlawful in some countries, and removes the ad revenue that funds free radio. The detector is a heuristic and can also duck music by mistake. You decide whether to use it and you are responsible for complying with the terms and the law. This is not legal advice.

Only on your device. Settings, presets, the last station and any imported AutoEQ profiles live in your browser's localStorage. There is no account, no cookie, no analytics and nothing is uploaded or synced. Clearing site data removes everything, and the privacy policy lists every external request the player can make.

Not this edition. Playing radio or licensed music in a business generally needs a licence from your local collecting society (Buma/Stemra, SABAM/PlayRight, GEMA or the equivalent) and unlicensed public performance can be fined. Use the Venue Hi-Fi (B2B) edition, which is built around royalty-free music, and still verify each source's licence. See terms & disclaimers.

Browsers enforce CORS: a stream server must explicitly allow web pages to play it. If it doesn't, the player automatically retries through a CORS proxy (you can disable this in settings). Some streams are geo-blocked or offline and cannot be played at all.

It watches loudness and dynamic range in real time. Commercial blocks are usually louder and heavily compressed (low dynamic range). When that pattern holds for a few seconds the player ducks the audio, then restores it when dynamics return. It is heuristic and off by default — turn it on at your own discretion and respect your broadcaster's terms.

The site is served from Berlin, Germany (EU) by Codeberg Pages, a volunteer-run non-profit that runs its own hardware and avoids large cloud providers where possible. The build is fully static, so no server processes your requests. Codeberg does not publish a verifiable renewable-energy figure for its facility, so we do not claim to be 100% green. The radio streams are hosted by third-party broadcasters and CDNs that may be outside the EU and may not use renewable energy — we cannot verify or control that. See the hosting & privacy section.

No. Nothing you do is sent to us because there is no "us" — there is no server. Your stream URL, presets and settings never leave your device (except stream URLs sent to a proxy if you enable proxy fallback, and search queries sent to radio-browser.info).