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How to listen to an Internet radio station with privacy from Google?

From Maria Sophia@[email protected] to comp.mobile.android on Mon Apr 13 03:29:36 2026

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Q: How can we listen to an Internet radio station online with privacy?
A: ?

In another thread just moments ago, it was mentioned that listening to
<https://streema.com>
Or almost any Internet radio station hands your metadata to
Google Analytics
Google Ads
Google Tag Manager
Google Fonts
Google CDN
Facebook trackers
Cloudflare beacons
etc.

I don't do radio on my Android but Google tells me the way around that is
1. VLC <org.videolan.vlc>
2. MPV <is.xyz.mpv> no google dependencies whatsoever
3. RadioDroid <net.programmierecke.radiodroid2>

What's wrong with those for privacy when listening to radio on the Android?
1. https://github.com/videolan/vlc-android
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.videolan.vlc
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc

2. https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android/releases
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.xyz.mpv
https://f-droid.org/packages/is.xyz.mpv/

3. https://f-droid.org/packages/net.programmierecke.radiodroid2/
https://github.com/segler-alex/RadioDroid/releases

Google tells me...
1. VLC plays any audio/video stream, including direct radio URLs.
2. MPV also has no ads, no analytics, no Google dependencies.
3. RadioDroid lets you extract direct stream URLs without trackers.

Has anyone ever used them for this purpose of listening to Internet radio?
What is your experience?

What else plays Internet radio on your Android with privacy from Google?
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From Maria Sophia@[email protected] to comp.mobile.android on Mon Apr 13 03:53:01 2026

From Newsgroup: comp.mobile.android

Maria Sophia wrote:

I don't do radio on my Android but Google tells me the way around that is
1. VLC <org.videolan.vlc>
2. MPV <is.xyz.mpv>
3. RadioDroid <net.programmierecke.radiodroid2>

I don't generally do radio (other than to test out free capabilities).
But here are the direct links if you need 'em.

1. VLC
https://f-droid.org/repo/org.videolan.vlc_13070008.apk
Name: 20260412_f-droid_org.videolan.vlc_13070008.apk
Size: 51394470 bytes (49 MiB)
SHA256: A60901B1273BBED35EC2AA9E29C9EC27C15CB0B341A786622644639D0773C55F

2. MPV https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android/releases/download/2026-03-22/app-default-arm64-v8a-release.apk
Name: 20260412_github_mpv-android_app-default-arm64-v8a-release.apk
Size: 21704331 bytes (20 MiB)
SHA256: 3A379E2344B0D90BE9814FA14E825661F3B4887D8CEB62A4BC946EE03D384A59

3. RadioDroid https://github.com/segler-alex/RadioDroid/releases/download/0.86/RadioDroid-free-release-0.86-bafa5f3.apk
Name: 20260412_f-droid_RadioDroid-free-release-0.86-bafa5f3.apk
Size: 10399084 bytes (10155 KiB)
SHA256: 7E1CBEACA09FCC1500A9AEAA29EE5F5FC09A9EF2AF208ABB384378E69903050E

If anyone knows how to use them, please give me a head start suggestion.
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