BigWave Radio: the free internet radio player for Windows, macOS and Linux

Music first. Talk radio stays out of the way.

BigWave is built around dance, chill, trance, easy listening and the 80s and 90s. Pick a mood and get playing in one click.

• Ranked for listening: working streams first, then votes, clicks and bitrate.
• No duplicates: near-identical stations are merged into one result.
• Your Stars override everything: every station you rated, from any category, in one list.
• Card look (new in 0.9.10): a Now Playing card with a mood dial, the station list beside it, mood tiles on Discover and a floating mini player.
• Compact station grid: about twice as many stations on screen, with a 32-band spectrum animating in the playing card. Prefer roomier cards? Switch to Comfortable.
• Themes: dark, light or system, plus 8 accent colours.

🧩 Make it yours with plugins

Plugins are small Rhai scripts: a folder with plugin.toml and main.rhai. They get audio levels, bands, beat, BPM and break detection, but no network or file access.

• Permissions you approve, plus enable, disable and settings on the Plugins page.
• Hot reload: save the file and the plugin reloads. Import a .zip by button or drag-and-drop.
• Panels, pages and overlays, drawn with shapes, SVG or the draw.visual feedback renderer.
• Check before you share: --check-plugin <folder> validates a plugin without opening the window.

main.rhai: a bass-reactive border (no flashing)

fn on_load(ctx) { ctx.state.bass = 0.0; }

fn on_audio(ctx, a) {
    // smooth the bass level
    ctx.state.bass = ctx.state.bass * 0.8 + a.bass * 0.2;
}

fn on_panel(ctx, ui) {
    if ui.button("Show bass border") { ctx.open_overlay(false); }
}

fn on_overlay(ctx, draw) {
    let t = 0.01 + ctx.state.bass * 0.05;
    let c = ctx.settings.color;
    draw.rect(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, t, c);
    draw.rect(0.0, 1.0 - t, 1.0, t, c);
}