BroadcastZero is a radio, not a playlist. Every station runs on its own clock whether anyone is listening or not, so you land in the middle of whatever is already playing.

Getting started

• POWER ON starts the set.
• The plaques along the bottom are the stations. Tap one to tune to it.
• Digital jumps straight to a station. Analog makes you find it on the dial, and you hear it drift in and out of the noise on the way.

Receivers

• The radio icon at the top opens 24 sets, digital and analog.
• The knobs and faders are real: drag one, or hover it and scroll.
• Each set has its own tone. Some have an EQ, some only a volume wheel.

Shuffle

• Turns the dial for you: a new station on its own, every 5 minutes unless you change it in Settings (15 seconds is the quickest).
• The button counts down to the next one, so you always know what is coming.
• Tuning by hand restarts the clock. A set that is switched off does not count down.

Old school

• The little computer beside the tuners opens a window of visuals drawn from the sound itself, the way a media player used to do it.
• ‹ and › step through them. PAL changes the colours. AUTO moves both along on its own.
• Drag the title bar to move it, the bottom-right corner to size it, and double-click the title bar for full screen.
• The strip underneath reads the live level in dB.

Visualizer

• The bars icon opens a smaller side panel: bars, scope or rings.
• Pick which one in Settings.

Full screen

• The arrows icon at the top. Works in either orientation.
• On an iPhone, Safari gives a web page no real full screen. The button gets as close as it can; adding BroadcastZero to your home screen is the only way to lose the browser bar for good.

Sharing

• The share icon copies a link to the station you are on, never to a song. Whoever opens it tunes to the same station, live, wherever it has got to by then.

If it runs rough

• Settings → Visual effects → Lite stills the grain and glow, or Off strips them. The scenes stay either way.
• Settings → Reset preferences puts volume, receiver, station and visualizer back to new. It touches this device only.

18+. The stations carry explicit and vulgar content, on purpose.