Internet radio in your terminal.
One file, no dependencies, and a grudge against silence.
ttyfm plays live radio through mpv and wraps it in a fast TUI: what is on now, an equalizer that moves with the audio, favorites, history and yearly stats.
npm i -g ttyfmNeeds Node 18 or newer and mpv. macOS, Linux and Windows.
✳ tty.fm ● live ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ⏺ Better Times - Robin Schulz / Barbz ⏺ Laweta - Kizo / Julia Wieniawa ♥ ⏺ Dai Dai - Shakira / Burna Boy ⎿ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━────────────── 1:34 / 2:28 ○ Fly High - Toby Romeo (up next) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [RMF MAXX · RS202-KRK] ▂▃▅▇▆▃▂▁▂▄▆▅▃▂ ⏵⏵ during breaks: hop stations (shift+tab to cycle) vol 80
⏺ Failover you never hear
⎿ When a stream dies or stalls, ttyfm starts a second muted mpv on the next best mirror, waits until audio is really flowing, jumps it to the live edge, then crossfades over about 300ms and kills the old one.
⏺ It leaves when the ads start
⎿ Breaks can fade the volume down, mute, or hop to another station that is currently playing music and crossfade back after. Your radio goes for a walk.
⏺ The equalizer is real
⎿ mpv reports loudness and tone over IPC, so the bars follow the actual signal. Bass lights up the left side, treble the right.
⏺ Wrapped, for radio
⎿ Top songs, top artists, streaks, hours per month, your peak listening hour, and a vibe like evening loyalist or night owl explorer. Built from local history, never uploaded.
⏺ 50,000 stations to dig through
⎿ Discovery searches radio-browser.org with no key and no account. Same-name results collapse into one station whose URLs become its mirrors.
⏺ Your data stays yours
⎿ Stations, favorites, history and settings live in ~/.ttyfm as plain JSON. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Delete a file to reset that part.