Date: 2025/08/03 - RCI webradios - Themes: music, webradio, Caribbean

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hardware

I lost all the battery on my ipod on the bus yesterday so i fallback'd on my second option: listen FM Radio, but actually there's plenty of great internet radios i could also listen. Also i got a better device idea for a more linux friendly option but the money's been tight.

So its usually very easy to use FM Radio on phones that has a 3.5mm jack plug. You plug headphones boom you have FM Radio. Y'know why you have to plug headphones? Because it acts as antenna to the band that you try to reach. Awesome right?

And if you have only a usb-c plug? Well i don't know. I still have a jack plug.

I will not use your app

So 9 out of 10 when you think about webradio or web version of a FM Radio you'll have a client, crappy one, not even a PWA. Made for Android 3.x when people used nomination like Kitkat, Gingerbread and so on like it's Ubuntu version naming. It sounds salty but i really enjoy those alphabetical version naming system but they never think about better alphabet for this.

And those apps are riddled with ads, how you can make a worse way to listen internet web radios? It shouldn't be like that, right?
There's a webradio client for android called Transistor Here's a start, let's use that.

Dad's favorite radio

My dad's favorite radio is a webradio called RCI Tradition. It's from the RCI Group, they have several webradios. They have 2 FM Stations, one of Guadeloupe and the other one for Martinique where they not just play music but also programs, news and follow events. RCI Tradition is a typical webradio with only music.

please webradio, expose your links

And yes you expect it, this radio do not expose any link make the use of official app or weird webradio agregators that look awful with the same amount of ads and holes

So i search the web outhere if someone linked those in 'download link' form so i could add them in my prefered Radio player mentioned up there. And since it's quite niche, here they go. Please never use those weird ass webradio clients

How?

With your browser, i use firefox based browser i use the developer tools and lookup the Storage tab. Once the webradio is open it shows up there, a player is up you have various infos about it such as the title and the time played and the status of the player. There is a link.

The link isn't bound to an extension yet, so i open that and glue a ".m3u" at the end and my browser download it.

Then i send them to my device, i used Warpinator, because uh, reasons. And this device that has Transistor installed. You can open those files thru the app from a file manager.

It's quite weird but it might be better when those files can be downloadable from your phone or device's browser. But in the app you might need to rename those links.

Here's the links

Radio Name	About	link
RCI Guadeloupe	Generalist, News, web version of FM Station, has ads	⬇
RCI Martinique	Generalist, News, web version of FM Station, has ads	⬇
NRJ Antilles	Music, mixed genres mostly caribbean, has ads	⬇
Bel Radio Guadeloupe	Music, Greatest hits, news?	⬇
OWA	Party tunes, highlighting music fests, weird speed/bitrate?	⬇
RCI Compas	Music, Haitian Compas and closest Antillean variants	⬇
RCI Kassav	Music, Zouk and all music from the members of Kassav	⬇
RCI Zouk	Music, Zouk from all times, and all overlaping genre of zouk	⬇
RCI Dancehall	Music, Dancehall and all overlapping genres	⬇
RCI Tradition	Music, Traditional	⬇
RCI Live	Music, Recorded lives, mixed genres (reggae, zouk, dancehall and associed genres)	⬇

You can right click (alt click or long tap) to save those.

More?

So yeah i've written this because i got tired of listen those in weird ass clients with popup ads but i guess the method works for any kind of radio. if they expose a player. I'm not sure why i never heard of this.

Because their player also expose title names you could get those somehow

Ok there you have it! Have a nice listening!