BluOS Integrates airable to Expand Internet Radio and Podcast Discovery Across NAD, Bluesound, PSB and Partner Brands

There’s also a subtle but important contrast with how other platforms approach spoken-word content. Some ecosystems bolt podcasts on as a quasi-music service with limited transport controls or metadata depth, while others offload them entirely to third-party apps. airable’s model treats radio and podcasts as first-class media objects, which aligns neatly with BluOS’s existing queue management and multi-room synchronization engine. For users running mixed-brand systems—say, a NAD MDC-equipped amplifier in the main room and Bluesound nodes elsewhere—the benefit isn’t novelty, but coherence: identical content behavior across zones without sample-rate mismatches or control lag.

From a broader industry angle, this integration reads like a pragmatic response to streaming fragmentation rather than a play for exclusivity. As major music services de-emphasize or drop non-music content, control platforms are left to decide whether spoken-word audio belongs inside the hi-fi stack at all. BluOS’s answer appears to be yes, but only if discovery, metadata hygiene, and long-term catalogue maintenance are handled externally. airable effectively becomes the invisible middleware doing the unglamorous work, while BluOS keeps the UI and playback chain clean—arguably the only way internet radio makes sense in a serious listening system in 2026.