More than 50 radio stations(Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and others + new stations with every update.
Details and Features
- Licensed BASS© audio library with awesome 32-bit sound quality!
- Powerful 10 band equalizer with additional sound settings.
- Net buffer settings for stable playback even without perfect internet connection.
- Full-screen dock mode – useful for car listening.
- Tracks history with instant search on Internet.
- Useful Widget.
- Sleep Timer.
View on Google Play Store
Free or paid:
- Free with in-app purchase
Accessibility and User Comments:
Fully accessible
Classical Music Radio offers a compelling collection of radio stations dedicated to classical music. The app is fully accessible to the point that the What's New section for one of its recent updates mentions "improved application performance in Screen Reader mode." While such a mode doesn't exist in the app, it apparently makes certain adjustments when a screen reader - like TalkBack - is detected.
The static name "Classical Radio" is located on the top left corner of the screen. Useful buttons such as "Search," "Set sleep timer," "History," and "More options" are located to the right of it. When activated, the "More options" button, located on the right corner of the screen, reveals the following items: "Add your station," "Export your stations," "Filter groups," and "Settings." So the app allows users to add their own radio stations in case they have their URLs, and custom stations, which might have been added previously, can also be exported via the PLS format.
Other important features of the app, like "Equalizer," "Previous station," "Play/Pause," "Next station," and "Play random station" can be accessed at the bottom of the screen in its main window. So what occupies the large mid-portion of the screen is a long list of station names, most expandable/collapsible inside branches, and the "Add to favorites" option is also located to the right of each station name.
As soon as a station is selected for playback, TalkBack announces its name, and the station name and the track name, the latter if available, appear toward the bottom of the screen, vertically, above the "Stop" button.
The app, in Pro mode and upon paying via the In-app purchase option, utilizes some pro features in its Settings window. For instance, Classical Music can keep playing after losing audio focus, turned off by default, or show the stations' bit rate. Apart from these Pro features, the app has various settings like enabling controls on the Lock screen, turned off by default, and resume playback on app start or when headphones are plugged-in.
And, last but not least, while the app offers no TalkBack actions, it notably has no unlabeled buttons either, indicating the developer's exemplary attention to accessibility. The app responds quite interestingly to TalkBack's 2-finger double-tap gesture. Instead of quickly resuming or stopping audio, it gradually fades in and fades out, generating a pleasant audio resuming/pausing auditory feedback. I've never seen such a thing on Android, or even on iOS, so far. I think the developer has done it intentionally for screen reader users.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
4.20.1. Android 14.
Free or paid:
- Free with in-app purchase
Accessibility and User Comments:
Fully accessible
Classical Music Radio offers a compelling collection of radio stations dedicated to classical music. The app is fully accessible to the point that the What's New section for one of its recent updates mentions "improved application performance in Screen Reader mode." While such a mode doesn't exist in the app, it apparently makes certain adjustments when a screen reader - like TalkBack - is detected.
The static name "Classical Radio" is located on the top left corner of the screen. Useful buttons such as "Search," "Set sleep timer," "History," and "More options" are located to the right of it. When activated, the "More options" button, located on the right corner of the screen, reveals the following items: "Add your station," "Export your stations," "Filter groups," and "Settings." So the app allows users to add their own radio stations in case they have their URLs, and custom stations, which might have been added previously, can also be exported via the PLS format.
Other important features of the app, like "Equalizer," "Previous station," "Play/Pause," "Next station," and "Play random station" can be accessed at the bottom of the screen in its main window. So what occupies the large mid-portion of the screen is a long list of station names, most expandable/collapsible inside branches, and the "Add to favorites" option is also located to the right of each station name.
As soon as a station is selected for playback, TalkBack announces its name, and the station name and the track name, the latter if available, appear toward the bottom of the screen, vertically, above the "Stop" button.
The app, in Pro mode and upon paying via the In-app purchase option, utilizes some pro features in its Settings window. For instance, Classical Music can keep playing after losing audio focus, turned off by default, or show the stations' bit rate. Apart from these Pro features, the app has various settings like enabling controls on the Lock screen, turned off by default, and resume playback on app start or when headphones are plugged-in.
And, last but not least, while the app offers no TalkBack actions, it notably has no unlabeled buttons either, indicating the developer's exemplary attention to accessibility. The app responds quite interestingly to TalkBack's 2-finger double-tap gesture. Instead of quickly resuming or stopping audio, it gradually fades in and fades out, generating a pleasant audio resuming/pausing auditory feedback. I've never seen such a thing on Android, or even on iOS, so far. I think the developer has done it intentionally for screen reader users.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
4.20.1. Android 14.
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