Despite the arrival of streaming services for listening to music, the radio is still one of the most used means to listen to music when you are in the car or at home, since it is free, easy to access and often and willingly presents also radio programs of various nature that accompany the transmission of the music, and which can therefore entertain at 360 degrees. But if we wanted to listen to music via the radio when we are at the PC, on the smartphone or tablet without an FM antenna or on any other device, how can we do it "> Listen to free music online: the 6 best sites
1) Listen to free online radio via browser
To listen to online radio you do not need to install anything, we can only use web radios provided by practically any national radio broadcaster. If we have a radio that we particularly like, just search for it on Google and check on the Web page if there is a player for online radio, completely identical to the radio broadcast in FM; in some cases it is possible to find additional radios for the same broadcaster, with some exclusives reserved for Web users (thematic radios, radios that transmit songs of a single genre or of a single group / singer etc.) or podcasts, where it is possible to listen again the broadcasts already aired and that we could not listen to live.
Below we have collected all the links to listen to the Italian national online radio, free of charge, with the main radio stations:
- RTL 102.5
- Radio 105
- Radio Deejay
- Radio Italy
- Virgin Radio
- Radio Kiss Kiss
- Radio24
- Radio Monte Carlo
- R101
- M2O
- RAI radios on the Raiplayradio website
All links lead where possible to the direct reproduction of the radio as broadcast on FM frequencies; in some cases (such as Radio 105) it will be possible to choose both the live broadcast and one of the many thematic radios available (such as the 105 Hits channel that transmits non-stop music without conductors).
Among the famous radios the only one that does not have a player to play in the browser is RDS.
Alternatively, we can listen to the radio using dedicated extensions.
The best extension to listen to the radio on Google Chrome is Radio, available here -> Radio .
If instead we are looking for the Mozilla Firefox extension to listen to music, we can find it here -> TuneYou Radio .
A very powerful and above all free site for listening to online radio, even amateur radio broadcasting via the web (the webradio) is Shoutcast radio, also supported by several popular audio players.
2) Listen to free online radio on PC
Do we want to listen to all the music transmitted by Italian radios through a convenient PC program?
The best software that we can install for free on Windows is Radio Sure, downloadable from here -> Radio Sure .
Let's download the installer and start it; at the end of the installation we open the program, stop any radio reproductions that will start and, to find the Italian radios immediately, right click on the Language column and select Italian .
We will thus be able to select over 900 Italian radios, including many local and regional radios.
To start a radio, simply double-click and wait for the buffer to load, so that the radio can be played smoothly.
Some radios may stop working but the program updates the list of links every 7 days, so if a radio does not work we will just have to wait.
Screamer Radio is another free program with thousands of radios organized by genre and country.
Through this very light program you can listen to all or almost all Italian radios on a computer connected to the internet.
Screamer radio does nothing but aggregate all the links of the radios of each nation and also gives the possibility to add new links for new radios and to record music from the radio directly at 128 Kbps, automatically saving it in an MP3 file.
You can also save your favorite radio stations to listen to them without searching for them.
3) Listen to online radio for free with VLC
Another method to listen to online radio on your PC is to use the VLC media player, which is also very useful for listening to the links broadcast by local and international radios.
We can download VLC for free for Windows, Mac and Linux from here -> VLC .
Now that we have the player, we recover the link to play the desired radio from the site present here -> Italian online radio links .
Once we find the radio that we intend to listen to, we right click on the link that indicates the kbps of the radio, we use Copy address and, once VLC is opened, we click on File -> Open network stream, where we have to paste the link retrieved from the site.
Now click on Play below to start playing the online radio.
4) Listen to free online radio on your smartphone or tablet
Even on mobile devices it is possible to listen to the radio and there is no need for the radio antenna between the components (increasingly rare as a feature).
Let's find out together the best apps that we can try on both Android and iPhone and iPad.
We talked about these applications in the list of the best apps to listen to FM Radio and streaming music on Android and iPhone among which we still mention:
Tunein Radio
If we want to listen to all Italian radios while using a smartphone and tablet with any operating system, just use the Tunein Radio app, available for free download here -> Tunein Radio (Android) and Tunein Radio (iOS).
With this app we will be able to listen to any Italian and international radio even on devices without an FM antenna, since it is possible to connect to online radios using the WiFi connection or the data connection.
The app allows you to save your favorite radios, to create playlists with the songs or the transmitted radios, to pause to pick up where you left off and to increase the buffering for a smoother playback (very useful when the LTE signal is poor or let's go under a gallery).
Definitely the best app to listen to online radio for free on both Android and iPhone / iPad.
MyTuner
You can listen to the MyTuner radio from the website for listening via PC, and then also from the Android and iPhone apps, with all the stations in the world available, including the Italian ones, including also podcasts.
The best part of this website is the charts section, that is the charts of the most listened songs on the radios in Italy or in other countries of the world.
There are rankings for different musical genres, with the top 10 of today or the top 40 of the moment.
Simple Radio
Another app that you can use to listen to online radio for free on mobile devices is Simple Radio, available for download from here -> Simple Radio (Android) and Simple Radio (iOS).
With this application we can comfortably choose which radio to listen to among national and international broadcasters (over 45 thousand stations), save your favorite stations and view the information transmitted by the radio itself relating to the songs or the broadcast in progress (not for all radios, it is a feature that must be supported by the broadcaster). For those looking for a quick and easy app to play the radio on their smartphone or tablet, Simple Radio is the right choice.
Radio Garden
Finally, the pleasant and comfortable Radio Garden site allows you to listen to radios from all over the world, showing the Earth as if it were Google Earth with many green dots on it. By clicking on one of the dots, you listen to the radio of that area. The map can be enlarged to search for local radio stations in every city in the world.
READ ALSO: Best apps to listen to FM Radio and streaming music on Android and iPhone
