Happy wife Happy life, Bubble/UPNP and Airlens for internet radio stations… do you use it regularly and recommend it?

Sadly I think Auralic and Naim are the only manufactures that I can think of that allow access to streamed radio stations. One problem is that some radio broadcasters like the BBC for example are blocking their stations being broadcast over internet via vtuner etc, especially if you live in the uk which is crazy! Who we pay a mandatory bbc licence to actually legally listen to them in the first place.

I do think PSA have missed a trick by not including online radio support though e.g. by allowing entry of a url of a radio station in the airlens for example

…and then there is Tune-In…..

Tune-in

No Air Lens here, streaming via various Innuos products.

I use the AirLens with MConnect MControl and VTuner on a regular basis. I have no idea how many and what stations are available on this service but it is significant. I add my regular stations to the Favorites and it is relatively easy. I will say the MConnect app is “clunky”, but not having used anything else, other than JRiver/JRemote, I have no experience to put “clunky” in perspective. I will say I was very glad when Qobuz Connect became available! I have had some issues with JRiver so I haven’t used it much lately. If you have successfully used the Auralic hardware & software I would just stick with that, I would suspect the AirLens would not be an improvement from that perspective.

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access to radio stations is easy on AirLens