The tuner · world radio, read live

Somewhere, a station
is always on.

Turn the dial and the world answers — pop out of Warsaw, jazz out of Tokyo, news out of Lagos. Behind the glass is radio-browser.info, a register of internet stations kept by its own listeners, read here directly: no key, no account, no server in the middle. The stream itself comes straight from the broadcaster to this page’s one audio element, untouched.

Take a station off a shelf — by genre, by country, or by name — and press play. Nothing plays until you do. The page remembers your last station in this browser, and a link to the tuner carries the station with it.

a community register · read live off radio-browser.info · streams straight from the broadcaster

The tuner

One dial. Every country.

What is tuned sits under the needle; what is playing is the broadcaster’s stream, untouched. The register counts one click when you press play — that is how its rankings stay honest — and this page never plays a note you did not ask for.

Tuner

waiting for the wire

The scale is the page’s own — internet stations have no frequency, so each gets a fixed spot on the glass and the needle sweeps to it.

Nothing tuned.

Nothing tuned yet — take a station off the shelves below.

The shelves

By genre. By country.

The register’s biggest tags and biggest countries, read off the wire when the page opens — each chip pulls a fresh shelf of its most-voted stations, with streams the register’s own checker has marked broken already left out. A click on a row tunes it and plays.

Shelves

By genre

Waiting for the wire…

By country

Waiting for the wire…

Pick a shelf.

The search

Name it. It answers.

Ask the register for a station by name — the whole of it or a piece — and the most-voted matches come back. A click on a match tunes it.

Find a station

Matches come back most-voted first, dead streams filtered.

About

A tuner, not a label.

The register is radio-browser.info — a community catalogue of internet radio stations, added and voted on by the people who listen to them, published without a key and mirrored by volunteers. This page asks the project for its mirror list at load, picks one, and reads the register directly in your browser; the status line in the tuner names the mirror it is on. The counts in the opening are the register’s own, read the same way.

A community register carries dead entries the way a phone book carries moved-out numbers. The shelves ask for streams the register’s checker has not marked broken, but a stream can die between checks — when one will not open, this page says so and offers the next station rather than pretending. Some broadcasters still stream over plain http, which a secure page cannot open; that too is reported as exactly what it is.

Nothing plays until you press play. When you do, the page tells the register one click was counted — that is how the community’s rankings stay honest — and your last station is remembered in this browser and nowhere else. The dial is drawn by this page’s own hand, and its scale is a metaphor, marked as one.