FRadioPlayer is a wrapper around AVPlayer to handle internet radio playback.

SwiftUI demo source lives under Example/FRadioPlayerDemo/.

Use XcodeGen to generate and open the demo project:

brew install xcodegen    # once
cd Example
xcodegen                 # generates FRadioPlayerDemo.xcodeproj
open FRadioPlayerDemo.xcodeproj

• Support internet radio URL playback
• Update and parse track metadata
• Update and show album artwork (via iTunes API)
• Automatic handling of interruptions
• Automatic handling of route changes
• Support bluetooth playback
• Swift 5.5+
• Network interruptions handling
• Support for Swift Package Manager SPM
• Support for Audio Taps
• Support for Audio Recording

• macOS 10.12+
• iOS 15.0+
• tvOS 10.0+
• Xcode 13+
• Swift 5.5+

FRadioPlayer is available through SPM. To add it in Xcode: File > Add Packages… and use the URL of this repository. Or add the dependency in Package.swift:

.package(url: "https://github.com/fethica/FRadioPlayer.git", branch: "main")

Add the package, then use the shared player and observe changes.

import FRadioPlayer

final class RadioController: NSObject, FRadioPlayerObserver {
    let player = FRadioPlayer.shared

    override init() {
        super.init()
        player.addObserver(self)
        player.enableArtwork = true      // Optional (default true)
        player.isAutoPlay = true         // Optional (default true)
        player.radioURL = URL(string: "https://your.station/stream.mp3")
        // Or manually control playback: player.play()
    }

    func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, playerStateDidChange state: FRadioPlayer.State) {
        print("Player state: \(state)")
    }
}

// Elsewhere
FRadioPlayer.shared.togglePlaying()   // Play/Pause
FRadioPlayer.shared.stop()            // Stop
FRadioPlayer.shared.volume = 0.8      // Set volume (0.0...1.0)

Prefer SPM. If needed, drag Sources/FRadioPlayer into your Xcode project.

1. Import FRadioPlayer

import FRadioPlayer

2. Get the singleton FRadioPlayer instance

let player = FRadioPlayer.shared

3. Observe player events (optional)

final class MyObserver: NSObject, FRadioPlayerObserver {
    override init() {
        super.init()
        FRadioPlayer.shared.addObserver(self)
    }

    func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, playerStateDidChange state: FRadioPlayer.State) {
        // handle state change
    }
}

4. Set the radio URL

player.radioURL = URL(string: "http://example.com/station.mp3")

• isAutoPlay: Bool Auto-play when radioURL is set (default true).
• enableArtwork: Bool Fetch album artwork via iTunes API (default true).
• artworkAPI: FRadioArtworkAPI Artwork provider, default iTunesAPI(artworkSize: 300).
• rate: Float? Current AVPlayer rate.
• isPlaying: Bool Convenience read-only state.
• state: FRadioPlayer.State Player state.
• playbackState: FRadioPlayer.PlaybackState Playback state.
• volume: Float? Player volume, 0.0…1.0.
• httpHeaderFields: [String:String]? HTTP headers for the underlying AVURLAsset.
• metadataExtractor: FRadioMetadataExtractor Strategy to parse timed metadata.
• currentMetadata: FRadioPlayer.Metadata? Last parsed timed metadata.
• currentArtworkURL: URL? Last resolved artwork URL.
• duration: TimeInterval Total duration, 0 for live streams.
• currentTime: Double Current playback time in seconds.

• Play

player.play()

• Pause

player.pause()

• Stop

player.stop()

• Toggle playing state

player.togglePlaying()

• Player state

func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, playerStateDidChange state: FRadioPlayer.State)

• Playback state

func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, playbackStateDidChange state: FRadioPlayer.PlaybackState)

• Item change

func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, itemDidChange url: URL?)

• Timed metadata

func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, metadataDidChange metadata: FRadioPlayer.Metadata?)

• Artwork URL

func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, artworkDidChange artworkURL: URL?)

• Duration and time updates

func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, durationDidChange duration: TimeInterval)
func radioPlayer(_ player: FRadioPlayer, playTimeDidChange currentTime: TimeInterval, duration: TimeInterval)

For more complete app features, check out Swift Radio App based on FRadioPlayer

This repository uses Swift Package Manager for building and testing:

swift build
swift test

Fethi El Hassasna

FRadioPlayer is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.