Radio and podcasts have become a big part of everyday listening, right alongside music streaming. The problem is that they often live in separate apps, with separate search tools and separate favorites. BluOS is trying to simplify that picture with a new integration that pulls a massive catalogue of internet radio stations and podcasts directly into the BluOS Controller app, powered by media services provider airable.
Here’s what that means in practical terms if you’re using BluOS today on a Bluesound, NAD, PSB, DALI, Monitor Audio, Cyrus, or Roksan system.
BluOS has always been positioned as a multi-room audio platform that manages both stored and cloud-based music, with support for high-resolution streams up to 24-bit/192 kHz. You log into services like Spotify, Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer, and others, and control everything through the BluOS Controller app.
With the airable partnership, radio and podcasts are no longer something you access in separate apps on your phone or via a smart speaker skill. Instead, they appear as a dedicated section inside the BluOS Controller app itself.
From there, you can:
The idea is to put music, radio, and podcasts in the same control environment you already use for multi-room playback, without changing your hardware or juggling extra apps.
You may not have heard of airable by name, and that’s by design. It’s not trying to be another consumer-facing app. Instead, it works behind the scenes as infrastructure for brands that want to offer radio and podcasts inside their own systems.
airable:
That catalogue and infrastructure are already used by more than 10 million devices worldwide, according to the company. BluOS is now tapping into that same backend, rather than building and maintaining a global radio and podcast directory on its own.
For you, the listener, the important part is not the API details but the outcome: a much larger and better-organized pool of radio and podcast content available directly inside BluOS.
“The airable team is filled with experts and their platform is easy to work with. This relationship helps us advance our mission to offer the widest selection of global, high quality audio content,” said Mike Jbara, VP and General Manager of Lenbrook Media Group. “airable is a natural fit for BluOS, providing both the reach and flexibility that would be difficult to achieve with any other partner.”
From the user’s side, the change appears as a dedicated placement in the BluOS Controller app. Instead of being pushed out to a separate radio app, you stay within BluOS and browse airable’s catalogue through BluOS’ own interface.
Key discovery tools include:
Because the discovery and playback are handled inside BluOS, you can treat radio and podcasts similarly to how you treat music services: add something to favorites, route it to different rooms, and control volume and playback using the same app you already know.
One of the practical advantages here is that the integration rolls out through software rather than hardware. The update arrives through the BluOS Controller app and applies across the entire BluOS ecosystem, which includes products from Bluesound, NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, DALI, Monitor Audio, Cyrus Audio, and Roksan.
If you already own a BluOS-enabled device from any of these brands, there’s nothing new to buy—airable’s catalogue simply becomes available through an app update. This is described as the first phase of the collaboration, yet even at this stage it represents a meaningful expansion of what BluOS can offer inside the existing user experience.
On paper, “85,000 radio stations and 105,000 podcasts” is an impressive number. In everyday use, the real question is: does this actually make listening simpler?
A lot of listeners end up locked into a handful of familiar options because discovery is spread across multiple apps. You might have a favorite radio app, a separate podcast app, and a few streaming services, all with independent search, favorites, and interfaces. It’s easy to bounce between them; it’s also easy to give up on exploring and just stick to whatever is already in front of you.
By integrating airable directly into BluOS, Lenbrook is trying to centralize that experience. Instead of:
You can stay inside one control environment. You search, browse, and play from there, whether it’s a local news station, a niche podcast, or a high-resolution album.
That doesn’t mean BluOS replaces every dedicated radio or podcast app, and it doesn’t need to. The goal is simpler: reduce fragmentation for people who already live in the BluOS ecosystem and prefer to control their listening from a single place.
BluOS started as a platform focused on high-resolution music playback and multi-room control. Over time, it has been adopted across a range of hi-fi brands and integrated with various smart-home and voice-control systems.
The airable partnership fits into that evolution by expanding the content side of the equation. Instead of just handling stored music and streaming services, BluOS now also layers in structured access to radio and podcasts on a global scale.
From a listener’s perspective, the takeaway is straightforward:
The update is live now through the BluOS Controller app and rolling out across BluOS-compatible products. If you’re already using BluOS at home, the next step is simple: open the app, find the new airable-powered section, and see what’s available where you live, and beyond.
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