SomaFM Radio Player

SomaFM Radio Player

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price
$7.99
Reviews
4.6 (365)
United States United States
Description
SomaFM's official app, giving you access to over 30 year-round channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio, with all music hand-picked our award-winning DJs and music directors.

Lifehacker.com calls SomaFM one of the "Five Best Internet Radio Services" and says "completely user and listener-supported, which means no ads or commercials during your broadcasts, and the channels and programs aired at SomaFM are rarely heard anywhere else."

Features include:

- No registration required; no additional purchases required!

- View stations by Popularity, Genre or your favorites

- Shows name and artist of currently playing song and history of songs played.

- Siri Shortcuts

- Bookmark, Share title and search iTunes for the playing song

- Background streaming: use other apps while listening.

- Stream to AppleTV & Airplay devices; Qualcomm® AllPlay™ compatible speakers; Chromecast

- Integration with many car stereo units via Dock Connector or Bluetooth

- Remote control:  Pause and restart playing as well as skip between favorite channels from your headphone remote, lock screen controls.

- High and low bandwidth streaming: 128k MP3 and 64-80kb AAC-HE (high); great-sounding 32kb AAC-HE and good-quality 40kb MP3 (low).

- AAC-HE support for highest quality audio even at the lowest bitrates.

Never listened to SomaFM before? Here's our lineup, which are all commercial free:

Groove Salad: A nicely chilled plate of ambient/downtempo beats and grooves.
     Downtempo electronica, mostly instrumental. Great for work.
     
Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and P.I.s too!
     An eclectic blend of cinematic downtempo, stylish lounge, sambas and easy-tempo with an adventurous flair.
     
Drone Zone: Served best chilled, safe with most medications. Atmospheric textures with minimal beats.

Fluid: Drown in the electronic sound of instrumental hiphop, future soul and liquid trap.
	
Indie Pop Rocks!: New and classic favorite indie pop tracks.

Left Coast 70s: NEW! Mellow album rock from the Seventies. Yacht friendly.
	The mid/late 70s sound that blossomed out of Los Angeles and spread up and down the west coast.

cliqhop idm: Blips'n'beeps backed mostly w/beats. Intelligent Dance Music.
     
Beat Blender: A late night blend of deep-house and downtempo chill.

Dub Step Beyond: Dubstep, Dub and Deep Bass. The place for Bass Music!
     
The Trip: Progressive house / trance. Tip top tunes.

Illinois Street Lounge: Classic bachelor pad, playful exotica and vintage music of tomorrow.

Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Spaced-out ambient and mid-tempo electronica.

Doomed: Dark industrial/ambient music for tortured souls. 

Boot Liquor: Americana Roots music for Cowhands, Cowpokes and Cowtippers

Lush: Sensuous and mellow vocals, mostly female, with an electronic influence.

Digitalis: Digitally affected analog rock to calm the agitated heart.
     
Suburbs of Goa: Desi-influenced Asian world beats and beyond.

ThistleRadio: Exploring music from Celtic roots and branches
	Crafted by Fiona Ritchie, award-winning host and curator of NPR's syndicated Thistle and Shamrock radio show.
	
Underground 80s: Early 80s UK Synthpop and a bit of New Wave, with rarities you forgot you remembered.
     
Sonic Universe: Transcending the world of jazz with eclectic, avant-garde takes on tradition.
     NuJazz/Avant Garde/Euro-jazz.

PopTron: Electropop and indie dance rock with sparkle and pop.
     Less guitars, more synths.

Metal Detector: From black to doom, prog to sludge, thrash to post, stoner to crossover, punk to industrial. 
     
Mission Control: Ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.
     
SomaFM SF 10-33: Live San Francisco Fire and Police radio with an electronic music soundtrack.
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Reviews

Spinning the virtual chill!

This app is fantastic, I use it every day & have for years. Much love to Big URL & the Soma crew!!

Izzy GrimesFri, Mar 29, 2024
United StatesUnited States

The best before last 2 updates

No song history for any channels upon launching app now. Swipe to the right from Now Playing screen shows a blank screen even though Channels icon is displayed in the bottom. Have to tap another icon and back to see channels. Can’t believe these issues still haven’t been fixed after 2 months. Edit… bugs have been fixed! Thanks for the quick update. 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!

So SaddTue, Feb 13, 2024
United StatesUnited States

one of the last bastions of the good internet

I've been listening to SomaFM for at least 15 years. "Indie Pop Rocks!", "Groove Salad" and "Metal Detector" are basically my life's soundtrack. This is one of what feels like the last few vestiges of the "old" Internet where everything wasn't a subscription, services weren't about "engagement" and funneling your data to brokers and, now, apparently, feeding AI training sets, and building cool things that didn't end in acquisition or IPO was actually cool. Thanks for existing!

carlosonunezSun, Feb 4, 2024
United StatesUnited States

The best before last 2 updates

No song history for any channels upon launching app now. Swipe to the right from Now Playing screen shows a blank screen even though Channels icon is displayed in the bottom. Have to tap another icon and back to see channels. Can’t believe these issues still haven’t been fixed after 2 months.

So SaddSat, Feb 3, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Music good

Nice radio try it is cool

JK950244Sat, Jan 13, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Coolest music app

10/10

tntcastleTue, Jan 2, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Why did it break?

This latest version is so messed up. The screens don’t render correctly. The music keeps stopping. Every time the music stops, it returns to the Home Screen, so you can’t simply press play to restart. I’ve been using this app for a decade. So disappointed and confused by this failure.

TommyWillBThu, Dec 14, 2023
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 16.9KMar 2024Worldwide
REVENUE$524Mar 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
com.somafm.SomaFMradioplayer
Min Os. Version
15.0
Release Date
Sat, Dec 4, 2010
Update Date
Mon, Feb 12, 2024
Content Rating
12+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
Yes
File Size
21.48MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
Yes
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian
What's New
version
1.14.0
updated
2 months ago
Fixes bug with right swiping to get back to channel selector
Top In-App Purchases

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Price

Thanks for the love
$9.99
The Tunes are Great!
$2.99
Nice Set!
$0.99
Prove them wrong
$29.99
Stick it to the man!
$49.99
A year of living musically
$149.99
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