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Support

Help with Air Drift in a browser and in its apps.

Ask a question

Email [email protected]. A person reads it and answers, usually within a couple of days. It helps to say which device you are on and, if it is about a station, the station's name.

Common questions

A station will not play

Air Drift plays each station straight from the broadcaster's own stream, so when a station is off the air, has moved, or is not offered in your country, there is nothing to play. Try another station, or press Drift. Stations that stay silent drop out of the list within a day or so. If one you care about has stopped working, tell us and we will look.

The song or cover shown is wrong or missing

The title comes from what the station sends with its stream, and many stations send nothing, or send the show's name. The cover is looked up from that title, so it is only as good as the title is.

Why did I hear an advert?

Stations play exactly as they air, so a commercial station runs its own adverts, just as it does on a radio. Air Drift adds none and has none of its own.

Where are my saved stations?

On the device you saved them on. There is no account, so favourites and history do not follow you to another device. In a browser they can be exported to a file from settings.

Does it cost anything?

No. There is no account, no subscription and nothing to buy.

For broadcasters

Air Drift links listeners directly to the stream you publish, unaltered, so your listener counts and adverts are your own. Its station list comes from Radio Browser, a volunteer-run public directory of internet radio, and is refreshed from it every day. A station corrected or removed there is corrected or removed in Air Drift within a day or so, and in the other apps that use the same directory.

Radio Browser sets out how in its FAQ: a station's owner can change its own entry, and changes and removals can be requested through its station database project. If you would rather not do that yourself, email [email protected] from an address at the station and we will pass the request on for you.

Privacy

What Air Drift does and does not collect is set out on the about page.