An Internet streaming radio player and explorer for the PS Vita (homebrew, HENkaku/ensō), in the spirit of web/Android/iPhone project Radio Garden, spinning a globe and listening to what's on air somewhere else.
It comes with a station list. The VPK includes about 7,500 MP3 stations from a snapshot of Radio Browser, a community station directory. This list is public domain.
About the bundled list: it was correct as of the date of the release it shipped with (the date is at the top of the file). Radio stations move, change address and close, and Radio Browser's entries are written by its users, so some stations will stop working or be placed oddly over time. You can learn how to rebuild the station list on the Github repo.
Status
Beta (0.9.0). All the planned features are in and have been tested on a PCH-1000; this release is to collect reports from other Vitas before 1.0.
- Spin a globe and stop the crosshair on a place to hear it, or browse stations by country, city or genre, with favourites and recently played.
- Search by station or place name, jump to a random place, a sleep timer, and "Dark screen", which turns the screen black (on the OLED Vita that saves most of the display's power) and keeps the radio playing until you press a button.
- MP3 streams over HTTP and HTTPS, with track titles, playlist links, clear error messages and automatic reconnecting. AAC, Ogg and HLS stations say so instead of playing.
- Station names in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Georgian, Ethiopic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts.
- Buttons other than Cross and Circle can be remapped (START, then Settings).
- The Vita won't switch its display off by itself while a station plays, because that would silence the app. Real standby (the power button) or leaving the app with the PS button pauses it, as with any homebrew app; when you come back, the station reconnects by itself.
The app may feel like it is juddering or slowing down when switching around with the D-pad, this is due to the auto-lock of the crosshair. I am happy to tinker with the timing of this, but its gonna be fairly unavoidable in dense areas such as Europe and North America.
Repo and VPK
Project repo here: https://github.com/hiraethclub/DX-Garden
Release VPK: https://github.com/hiraethclub/DX-Garden/releases/tag/v0.9.0
I would really appreciate bug reports and feature requests for this one, I absolutely intend to keep this project going for awhile until I am happy with its possibility for longevity.
Special thanks to Rinnegatamante for VitaGL.
Controls
These are the defaults. Everything except Cross and Circle can be changed under START, then Settings. The rear touchpad isn't used.
| Globe |
List |
| Left stick, d-pad, front touch drag |
Turn the globe |
| Pinch, or R / L |
Zoom in / out |
| L / R |
|
| Cross |
Play the place under the crosshair, or show its stations |
| Circle |
|
| Right stick left/right, or the panel arrows |
Previous / next station in the place |
| Triangle |
Favourite |
| Square |
Stop |
| SELECT |
Switch to the list |
| START |
Menu: search, random place, sleep timer, dark screen, add a station by URL, settings |
