World Internet Radio is a player and a small catalogue in one page. The
stations come from radio-browser.info, a public directory that anyone can
read, so what you get is what that directory lists rather than a curated
selection made by a company. There is no account and no installation: the
page works as it is, and you can add it to your home screen if you want it
to open like an app.
What it does
Search and filter. Filter by country and by genre, or type
a station name. The country list and the genre list are built from the
directory itself, so they cover whatever the directory has at the
moment rather than a fixed set. A search returns up to 50 stations,
most-voted first.
What each station card shows. The country, the genre
tags, the stream quality in kbps when the directory reports it, and
the number of votes that station has collected in the directory. That
last figure belongs to the directory's own community, not to you:
nothing here lets you cast a vote.
Favourites. Tap the heart on a card and it goes into
your favourites list, kept on this device so it is still there next
time. The button with the heart count at the top shows only that list.
Language and colour. The whole interface switches
between English and Spanish from the selector at the top, and the
colour scheme is yours to pick from five.
Nothing leaves your device. Your favourites are stored
in this browser and are not sent anywhere. Clearing your browsing data
removes them.
Where it runs out
A stream only plays if the station is genuinely broadcasting. Some
directories entries point at a server that is down, or that blocks
connections outside its own country, and the player has no way to fix
that: a station that does not answer is a station that stays silent. The
five directory servers are tried in turn, so a directory outage is
survivable, but a station outage is not something the app can solve.
The favourites list belongs to this browser. It does not follow you to
another device, and there is nothing to export, because there is no
server holding a copy to export from.