A little more life. A lot more music.
Your favorite stations, the day’s forecast, and a little of what’s happening. A home for radio on the devices you already love.
iPad app in development · Squeezebox toolkit under review
The iPad dashboard
Put that older iPad back to work. Music up front, useful details close by, and a screen that stays awake while the dashboard is open.
Actual development preview · Charcoal theme
Internet radio, album artwork when available, and six quick presets. Press and hold a preset to save the station you’re listening to.
A prominent clock, an editable US ZIP forecast, and headlines from WhoBuzz. Easy to check from across the counter.
Purple Glow, Midnight Blue or Charcoal. Rich color, dark surfaces and straightforward controls in portrait or landscape.
Play through the iPad itself, or control a compatible Squeezebox on your home network. Each player has its own playback controls.
Tested on an iPad 5th generation with iPadOS 16.7.16. Public App Store and TestFlight downloads are not available yet.
For the original Squeezebox Radio
Bring a working Squeezebox Radio into a standalone listening setup, with a curated station menu, weather and local remote control. The new SqueezeRadio display adds song artwork, scrolling text, an AM/PM clock and battery/Wi-Fi status, with Purple Glow, Graphite Gray, Mint, Rose and Lavender themes. Our replacement player, HTTPS transport and clock service now run on the development radio. The old StandaloneRadio, HTTPSProxy and StandaloneTime applets are removed; firmware decoding and licensed libraries remain.
Confirm the model and firmware, then make a private backup before changing anything.
Our player and HTTPS transport with certificate verification now run on the development radio. Firmware and libraries retain their own terms; ownership and commercial-use review remain open.
On the installed development build, browse stations by country, hold a numbered button to save, and tap it to listen.
Setup, API, troubleshooting and recovery guides live alongside the source. Public downloads are paused while we review third-party licensing.
Built for a real kitchen
An older iPad. A Squeezebox worth keeping. And a wife whose first choice is Dallas–Fort Worth’s Indie 88.1 KNTU. Squeeze Radio began as a way to bring those things together: a little music, a useful forecast, and something lovely to leave on the counter.
A few things to know
Not yet. The native app is running on development devices, but there is no public App Store or TestFlight release. Squeezebox toolkit downloads are currently paused for a licensing review.
No. The iPad app plays internet radio directly. Squeezebox control is an additional option for a compatible radio on your home network.
The tested baseline is a Squeezebox Radio, hardware family baby, with stock firmware 7.7.3 r16676. Touch, Boom, Receiver and UE Smart Radio firmware are not verified. Start with the compatibility guide.
The configured standalone radio plays streams itself. It needs internet access, but the tested setup does not need an always-on computer or LMS server after installation.
Yes, on the current development build. Play a station, then hold a numbered button. A three-second “Preset N saved” message shows the station name, with a sound when interface sounds are enabled. Tap that button to listen again. Read the preset instructions.
Squeeze Radio browses live radio stations. On the radio, choose Find more stations, then United States or another listed country. Individual-song search and on-demand playback are not included.
There is no automatic playback time limit. The development player reconnects if audio progress stalls for more than 20 seconds. After six unsuccessful retries, it keeps trying once a minute until the stream returns or you press Stop. Read troubleshooting.
Beside A few favorites, open Preset options (the ellipsis), then choose Restore KNTU to preset 1. This restores only that iPad slot. Discover defaults to USA, and iPad favorites are separate from the radio’s physical buttons.
Public toolkit distribution is paused while we review historical third-party licensing. The MIT license covers our original toolkit contributions; firmware, libraries and external content retain their own terms. The complete provenance and commercial-use review has not passed. The proprietary iPad app’s release and pricing have not been announced.
The original transport verifies HTTPS certificates and hostnames. Remote control uses authenticated local HTTP, and plain HTTP stations remain unencrypted. Keep the radio on trusted home Wi-Fi and read the network notes before installing.
Start with the guide. Bring your own favorite station.