Radioplayer UK

UK Radio in one place. Live, catch-up and podcasts from 500 stations: news, sport, and music from pop, rock, and jazz to classical.

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2025-01-09

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Radioplayer is the official online player for UK radio, backed by the BBC and the rest of the industry.

From a tiny button at the top of your Chrome browser, you can listen to around 500 live UK stations, and tens of thousands of podcasts and catch-up programmes - including many from BBC iPlayer Radio.

Search for stations, subjects, people, programmes and even postcodes within Radioplayer. Set presets, so you can tune in to your favourite stations easily. You can also see recommended listening based on where you are, and what's trending right now.

As well as this Chrome extension, Radioplayer is also available as an iOS app, an Android app, and an increasing number of smart devices including the Amazon Echo.

Use of the Radioplayer is subject to our Privacy Policy, at http://www.radioplayer.co.uk/privacy/

New in v1.2.4

Our nice new logo, which you'll see gradually roll out across all Radioplayer apps

New in v1.2.1

Removal of omnibox keyword

New in v1.2

Updated description
New icon for high DPI screens

New in v1.01

Removed 'tabs' permission
Reduced memory requirement
Clicking on browser button brings player to foreground if already playing

If you get the same first-time user message every time you open Radioplayer, or it forgets your presets, you may have blocked third-party cookies. You can allow our cookie by:

Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar, and choose "Settings"
Type "Privacy" into the search box, and click "Content Settings"
If "Block third party cookies" is set, click "Manage exceptions"
Add "*.radioplayer.co.uk" to the hostname, and set it to "allow". This will then allow the Radioplayer to remember your last-tuned station, and your list of presets.

Extension

By:: https://www.radioplayer.co.uk
Users:: 50,000
Rating:: 4.06

(285)
Version:: 1.2.4 Last updated: 2017-11-17
Creation date:: 2017-11-16
Risk:: Very low risk impact High risk likelihood
Size:: 12.38KB
Email:: co*****@radioplayerworldwide.org
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Data ingested on:: 2025-01-09

User reviews

Pros

Good access to a wide range of radio stations
Simple interface
Worked well in the past

Cons

Fails to remember favorite stations
Requires overriding default Chrome cookie settings
Many users experience a blank screen or no functionality
Poor support and updates from developers
App functionality has diminished over time

Recent reviews

What a crock, wont play stations it advertises playing.

Ad*****, 2022-11-13

Really very poor indeed. You have to override the default Chrome cookie settings to get it to remember anything and then if you select a BBC Radio station, it immediately loses the ability to select Favourites or Most Recent while showing a notification that you need to download the Radioplayer App (which is only available for IOS and Android devices)! It seems quite clear from the complete absence of responses to requests for Support in the Chrome App Store in relation to this extension that RadioPlayer have lost interest in it.

An*****, 2020-10-19

Used to be great and work with no issues, now keeps asking me to use the chrome app to be able to save my favourite stations - while i'm using the chrome app! pretty impressive to remove functionality that used to work. Otherwise nice simple access to loads of radio stations.

Da*****, 2020-07-15

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Radioplayer UK does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Low This permission has no access or impact on the user's system or data, thus carrying no risk.

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Radioplayer UK may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.