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TuneBit — internet radio for Bose SoundTouch

TuneBit connects locally to your Bose SoundTouch speakers and brings internet radio back. No cloud nonsense, blazing fast, and synchronous multiroom.

Find speakers
Choose a station
Group speakers
Listen in sync

The independent lifeline

The plug has been pulled on official internet-radio support. TuneBit doesn't fix that in the cloud, but through your own local network.

Fully local

No mandatory accounts, no slow cloud servers. TuneBit talks directly to your speakers. If your Wi-Fi works, TuneBit works.

Synchronous playback

TuneBit uses SoundTouch's dedicated hardware zones. Speakers play in sync, with no audible delay.

World radio built in

Thanks to Radio Browser integration you effortlessly search tens of thousands of stations worldwide and save them to your own favourites.

Scenes: one tap

Create a scene: pick one station, tick the speakers and set their volume. One press and your selected speakers are set up instantly.

X-Ray mode

For the techies: switch on X-Ray and view raw network data, API versions and WebSocket statistics per speaker.

Fast & effective

No slow logos to load or menus to wait for. The moment you open the app, you see what every speaker is doing and adjust the volume.

What TuneBit controls

It's all about restoring the functionality you bought these speakers for in the first place.

Stations

Search by name via Radio Browser, preview through your phone, and save your favourites locally. They stay on your phone, neatly alphabetised.
Plays: HTTP streams (MP3/AAC)

Scenes

A bundle of station, master speaker and listening speakers including their respective volumes. One click = action.
Set your whole house in one go

Live WebSockets

TuneBit opens a WebSocket connection to each speaker via the 'Gabbo' protocol. Someone changes the volume on the device itself? The app updates instantly.
Real-time status synchronisation

Surprise me

No inspiration? Let TuneBit pick a completely random, working radio station somewhere in the world. Discover new music in one tap — and save your finds with one extra tap.
Worldwide randomness via API

Five themes

Pick a mood that fits: the calm CompanionBits dark, the warm Summer, the bold Barbie or Flashy, or the accessible High contrast for extra readability.
A mood per taste, accessibility built in

The app

No visual noise. Just direct control over your speakers and scenes, presented in a clean overview.

TuneBit

v2.5
3 speaker(s) reachable

Tap a speaker to choose what it plays

Living room

playing: Studio Brussel
Stop Living room

start a station:

Studio Brussel
Radio 1

or let yourself be surprised:

Surprise me (world radio)

Kitchen

listening along with Living room

Office

The TuneBit interface — tap a speaker to start stations, control the volume or group them.

Workflows

Click a topic to expand the step-by-step instructions.

The moment you open TuneBit, the app automatically scans your Wi-Fi network for SoundTouch speakers. There's nothing to configure.

  1. Tap a speaker in the list to open the action panel.
  2. Choose start a station to play a saved radio station.
  3. The speaker connects immediately. You can close the action panel again by tapping the speaker once more.
  4. Control the volume with the slider, whether the panel is open or closed.
Standby: Is the speaker currently playing via Spotify Connect or Bluetooth? You can simply stop it in TuneBit with the ■ stop button. The app then sends a power command to close the source.

TuneBit uses the Radio Browser API. With it you search a live, independent database of radio stations worldwide.

  1. Tap the menu icon top-right of the main screen .
  2. Choose Stations under the Manage heading.
  3. Type your station's name (e.g. "Radio 1" or "Qmusic") and press Search.
  4. Each result shows the country, language, a few genre tags and the codec or bitrate — so you can easily tell variants of the same station apart.
  5. Tap the + next to a station to add it to your list.
  6. Stations stay saved locally on your phone. Take your phone to another house with SoundTouch speakers and your station list comes along.

A scene bundles your music and speakers. Handy for moments that recur often, like "Morning routine" or "Friday evening".

  1. Go via the menu to Scenes and tap + New scene.
  2. Give the scene a name and pick a station from your saved list.
  3. Toggle on the speakers that should take part.
  4. Set the desired start volume per selected speaker directly via the slider.
  5. Save. From now on you can start this scene via the Star button on the main screen. The 'master' speaker starts the station, and the rest listen along in sync.
  6. Speakers not in the scene keep doing what they were doing. Want to switch everything off? Then first tap Stop all.
Hardware sync: TuneBit doesn't solve this in software, but instructs the speakers via the Bose setZone command — so they synchronise the audio between themselves without network delay.

For those who like looking under the hood: a diagnostics screen with the technical details of each speaker.

  1. In the settings, switch on the X-Ray mode option.
  2. A small button now appears top-right on each speaker card.
  3. Tap it to fetch network, hardware and playback information for that speaker.
  4. You see IP and MAC address, whether the WebSocket (Gabbo) is connected, the model and firmware, the active source, the stream URL, any track/artist and the group role.

Because you should get to keep enjoying your speakers.

Bose switched off the SoundTouch cloud. What's left works, but listening to radio has become a detour. TuneBit brings back the simple gesture. No subscription. No account. No server. No ads. Free.

Download TuneBit

Android 8.0+ · ~12 MB · APK

TuneBit is an independent app and is not affiliated with Bose Corporation. 'Bose' and 'SoundTouch' are trademarks of Bose Corporation. TuneBit uses the local SoundTouch network features of your speakers.