Streaming the radio’s audio to your browser

The app controls the radio and shows its screen, but the sound still comes out of the radio’s own speaker. If you would rather hear it through your computer or phone, to listen on headphones while controlling everything on screen, you can route the radio’s audio into the browser.

What you need

• A cable from the radio’s 3.5 mm headphone output to an audio input on your computer (a line-in, or a cheap USB sound card if your machine only has a microphone jack).
• One of the same Chromium browsers the app already needs.

Setting it up

1. Connect the audio cable from the radio’s headphone socket to your computer’s input.
2. In the app, open Connect Sound and allow the browser to use the audio input when prompted.
3. The live audio plays back in the page; set the level with the radio’s own volume.

This audio path is separate from the USB or Bluetooth control connection. It is just the analogue sound, carried over a cable into your computer.

When it’s worth it

It shines with a Bluetooth connection. The radio runs on battery, so there is no USB power noise in the audio, and you get clean sound on your computer while controlling the radio wirelessly. Over USB it still works, but the USB power rail can add a little hum to the radio’s output. See Connecting your ATS Mini for the trade-off. And whether you listen through the computer or straight from the radio’s 3.5 mm jack, decent wired earphones make weak-signal listening noticeably easier.