v1.1.5  ·  Linux x86_64  ·  MIT

The whole planet's radio, from your terminal.

World Radio is a fast, keyboard-driven internet-radio player that lives in your shell. Browse 30,000+ live stations, watch a real-time spectrum analyzer drawn in pure text, and tune the whole thing to one of 14 hand-built retro palettes — no browser, no Electron, no mouse required.

$ cargo build --release -p radio-tui
↓ Download for Linux ★ Star on GitHub
~6 MB static binary <30 MB idle RAM 0 config to start built with Rust + Ratatui
world-radio — 118×34 
 ▌WR · WORLD RADIO      ● LIVE   Smooth Jazz Café  🇲🇽 MX · AAC 48k   │  ██████████░░░░░░  60%  │  ▁▃▅▇█▆▄▂▃▅▇▆▄▂
 ♪ Chuck Wayne — What A Difference A Day Made
───────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
FILTERS        │  ▶   Smooth Jazz Café        🇲🇽 MX  AAC 48k   jazz · lounge  live
               │  ▸ ★ BBC Radio 6 Music       🇬🇧 GB  MP3 192k  jazz · smooth
STATUS         │  · ★ Pure Lounge Radio       🇫🇷 FR  OGG 320k  lounge · funk
◉ all          │  · ★ FIP                     🇫🇷 FR  MP3 192k  eclectic
○ favorites    │  ·   Radio Swiss Jazz        🇨🇭 CH  MP3 192k  jazz
○ recent       │  ·   TSF Jazz                🇫🇷 FR  MP3 128k  jazz
○ blocked      │  · ★ Jazz24                  🇺🇸 US  AAC 128k  jazz
               │  ·   Linn Jazz               🇬🇧 GB  AAC 320k  jazz · audiophile
COUNTRY        │  ·   WBGO Newark             🇺🇸 US  MP3 128k  jazz
◉ all          │  ⏳   Nova Lounge             🇫🇷 FR  MP3 256k  lounge  buffering…
○ GB (47)      │  ·   KKJZ 88.1               🇺🇸 US  MP3 128k  jazz
○ DE (39)      │  ·   Couleur 3 Jazz          🇨🇭 CH  MP3 192k  jazz · alt
○ FR (31)      │  ·   Berlin Jazz Radio       🇩🇪 DE  MP3 128k  jazz
               │  ·   Radio Capital Jazz      🇮🇹 IT  MP3 128k  jazz · classics
TAG            │  ·   Jazz Groove             🇦🇺 AU  AAC 128k  jazz
○ all          │  ✗   Sapporo Jazz            🇯🇵 JP  MP3 96k   jazz  dead
◉ jazz (88)    │  · ★ NTS · Jazz              🇬🇧 GB  MP3 192k  eclectic
○ ambient (54) │  ·   Soma FM · Sonic         🇺🇸 US  MP3 128k  ambient · jazz
○ lounge (33)  │  · ★ KEXP 90.3               🇺🇸 US  AAC 128k  indie · jazz
───────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 ↑↓ select   ↵ play   f fav   B block   F filters   / search   , settings   ? help   q quit

Live preview · click a theme to recolor — all 14 ship in-app and switch without a restart.

What it does

A full radio rig that fits in a single pane.

Everything is one keystroke away. No menus to dig through, no settings you need to find before you can hear something — press enter on any station and it plays.

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30,000+ stations

Backed by the community radio-browser database. Search by name or filter live by country, language, genre, codec and bitrate.

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Real-time spectrum

The signature moment — a live FFT analyzer rendered in block glyphs, plus a VU-style volume bar, all in text. Four styles — bars, mirror, dots and wave — with logarithmic frequency bins.

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Favorites & history

Star stations, browse what you played recently, and block dead or unwanted streams — all as filters, never separate screens.

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14 retro themes

Amber CRT, Tube Glow, Hi-Fi Paper, Shortwave Green, Cyber Neon, Atomic Terminal, Mainframe Blue, Nord, Gruvbox, Dracula, Solarized, Catppuccin, Rosé Pine and Monokai — swapped live, no restart.

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Keyboard-driven

Vim-style and arrow navigation, paged scrolling, instant search, and a built-in help overlay. No mouse assumed, ever. Remap any action from an in-app keybindings overlay.

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Terminal-native

Truecolor, 256 and 16-color fallbacks, optional ASCII / no-emoji mode, and clean reflow from 118 cols down to 80×24.

Get it

Download v1.1.5 for Linux.

Prebuilt, statically-linked binaries — unpack and run, no dependencies to install. Verify any download against SHA256SUMS in the release.

x86_64
Linux · glibc
world-radio-1.1.5-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
↓ tar.gz
Build from source
$ cargo build --release -p radio-tui
Coming soon: musl (static) aarch64 .deb macOS Windows

Release history

What changed, version by version.

World Radio follows semver below 1.0 — minor versions can move fast. Every release ships prebuilt Linux binaries; grab any past version from its assets below.

v1.1.0
first public release
latest

First public release

  • 30,000+ stations from radio-browser with a local SQLite + FTS cache and multi-select country / tag / codec / bitrate filters.
  • Real-time FFT spectrum with four styles — bars, mirror, dots, wave — and a VU volume bar.
  • Crossfade between stations: the previous keeps playing until the next buffers.
  • 14 retro themes switched live; configurable keybindings with an in-app overlay.
  • Favorites, history and blocklist as filters; shuffle, sort, autoplay last station; session persistence.
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