Fip – radio & music stream‪s‬ 17+

I found fip by chance some year ago living in Paris. I loved the first song I heard, then the next, and the one after that, and so on... until more than an hour had gone by with me jammin to every song. So many artist I love now are because of fip being a truly eclectic station. The best part is there are NEVER ANY ADS! Just the sweet sound of world tunes and occasionally a news update. Do yourself a favor and download the fip app today!!

First, I love your music. It’s the epitome of eclectic. Nothing else comes close here in the states, except maybe KCRW’s Eclectic 24, but this is better (IMHO).

However, the app has several technical issues. It will often crash on me, and just randomly stop playing music. More annoying is the fact that the artist names don’t update properly. When listening to one channel, as the next song comes on the album art changes and the song name changes, but the artist name doesn’t. It will stay the same until I close the app or switch to a different channel.

I wish American public radio were this good. Commercial radio was this good half a century ago before trickle-down made everything about maximizing profit, because DJs had more discretion about what they could play instead of just the 5 most popular songs. There are some lyrics occasionally that might be offensive to American ears, but the vivacious nature of the music is refreshing to my corporate-grinded soul.