I tried with voice and search but, it does not work.
Yamaha Music cast has it (see image). So I can play from that app to my Yamaha speakers and AVR.
But I only have Airplay to an older stereo in my office. Would like to play those stations from Apple Music to the Airplay receiver.
iPhone XR, iOS 17
I found the best solution is to pay $4 on the app store and buy the Radio- Receiver app AKA Receiver. It is an excellent UI and high audio quality and accesses all of Airable.
I wish Apple used Airable instead of TuneIn and iHeart.
Naim can license their own radio station streams to whoever they want — or to no-one outside their own users. You won’t see it in the Apple Music app unless Naim handpicks Apple Music for this. It currently seems like Naim wants to keep this limited/exclusive.
If it is unencrypted, then anyone can use the stream URL. Then any streaming app that supports custom URLs and AirPlay would do for your purpose. Probably even a web browser.
One place and one way and Airplay and; because of the thousands of dollars I have sent to Apple and, they have never made internet radio easy to use or easy way to save/bookmark stations or easy way to find stations. Yes there is TuneIn (terrible audio quality) and very decent quality (founded out of radio station industry) but incomplete iHeart stations you can access (although, oddly, Apple Music forces TuneIn before iHeart).
Apple can do better. Don't you think?
I don't really understand what that has to do with the actual question I asked. Why do you need to use Apple Music if you have another app that does what you want? I think it's unrealistic to think that one music app can meet all of everyone's needs. Apple did try that for a while and the result was horrible.
If you want to leave feedback for Apple about how you think they could do better, start here:
Commingling iTunes long history and internet radio (which Music does do) is a specious argument.
I just want Music to be a little better with internet radio stations with the UI and UX. It is almost there.
I post here because, smart guys like you usually know the trick to do what Apple so deftly has hidden completely or, hidden in the UI.
Actually, in iTunes, users could add an internet station web address and then save the station to favorites. Not hard. Not the cause of iTunes being over complex (which had more to do with iTunes also including things that were not music and the emergence of streaming as a dominant way people got music). Apple did internet radio station saving and finding once before in the 2000s and, it worked and had nothing to do with iTunes breaking up.
Since it is Airable and my stations of interest are carried (with all others) via Airable… no point.
More so it is, which services don't carry all stations? Answer: TuneIn and iHeart.
Why do you need to have them in Apple Music to play them over AirPlay?
So do you tell Apple all of this?
Cool! Did you find out beforehand if it carried your wanted stations?
Actually, that license bit is not the case exactly. Anyone can listen to the Naim stations here. For free.
https://vtuner.com/setupapp/guide/asp/BrowseStations/Searchform.asp
Unfortunately, it is web only and vTuner is the absolute worst! (Yamaha and others left it for airable, which is back end only and so much better…). Radio.net is another one which tends to have a lot of stations but, not this one and it is basically, web only. But the people are super easy going and nice.
If it was not so crazy to get a station on iHeart, that app is a keeper but, most stations — especially non profit and non USA — don't use it because of an onerous process to get a station on it. This means many non profit stations are not able to be on it.
Oh beloved Apple, let us enter internet radio station URLs like you once did please? And save them for easy play later… like you once did…
How do we play the Naim Jazz, Naim Classical, and Naim Radio internet stations using Apple Music Radio?
