Old Time Radio Player

Mobile Software Design

About this app

This is the banner ad-free version of the Old Time Radio Player. Ads embedded in the original broadcasts are not removed.

Travel back in time and listen to great radio mysteries, dramas and comedies from yesteryear. Over 15,000 episodes from more than 130 shows are available. All the great shows are here so start listening!

Ratings and reviews

Glad to see it back. I have a ton of OTR recordings; I have always been obsessed with the special genre, so I bought the ad-free version of this app. I was not happy to see it missing from the Play Store for a long while. If anything happened to my lounge, I would have lost the app, but it appears to be back and rebranded. As long as my ad-free version keeps working, I will be happy. I just wish it still had the ability to extract downloaded episodes like I used to be able to do.

This is such a great and easy way to access thousands of old time radio shows. If you wanted to you could configure it to keep randomly selecting shows and never stop. You can download episodes to save yourself your data plan or just steam as you go along. One feature that I couldn't find that would be great is a sleep timer. I start a show when I go to bed and don't really want it to play all night.

I've used this app extensively for the last couple of years, and aside for some intermittent glitches, it's provided an outstanding platform to listen to vast numbers of archived online old time radio shows However, for the last week, this app simply will not access shows and or episodes that have not previously been downloaded to the device. When attempting to download new shows, it merely gives a "connection failed" message. Downloading the app on another phone yields the same results.