nowfound

Work · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to nRadioBox

Sixteen years ago, while I was a student, I built a Windows application for listening to internet radio stations. It ended up getting a surprisingly nice little community of users, but eventually life got in the way and I stopped working on it. A few months ago I started thinking about it again. Partly out of nostalgia, and partly because I still couldn't find a radio player that I liked using. So I decided to build it again from scratch, this time with the knowledge and experience I've accumulated over the last 16 years. The result is nRadioBox: a web-based internet radio player with tens…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

  1. 1

    Listen to internet radio with no distractions

    2019 · 30fsw.uk.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    I built this free, no-nonsense white noise app. I know there are plenty of them out there already, but I wanted to make something beautiful and easy-to-use, without logins or ads or in-app purchases or any of the other stuff a lot of them have. I appeared on The Economist's The Intelligence podcast [0] this week talking about Ambiphone and another ambient music project, Ambient ScotRail Beats [1] - I'm on at about 17:30 There's a big selection of music and sounds already but I'm always adding more - if there's anything you'd like to see added, let me know! [0]…

    2024 · ambiph.one · its alternatives →

  3. 3
    Recast▲128

    Listen to radio stations' playlists with Rdio or Spotify

    2015 · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Play and mix ambient sounds to boost productivity

    2017 · chillnsound.petrovicstefan.rs · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    I wanted to listen to music with friends who live far away. Not "watch a YouTube video together" - actually share what I'm hearing in real-time, like we're in the same room. Pulse is what came out of that. Anyone can host a live audio stream from their browser tab or system audio. Listeners join, music recognition identifies tracks automatically, and there's chat with 7TV emotes. No account required - you get an anonymous code and you're in. We're running demo rooms that stream NTS Radio and SomaFM 24/7 (indie project, not affiliated - we backlink to the original stations). There's also…

    Nov 2025 · 473999.net · its alternatives →

  6. 6
    nRadio▲5

    nRadio is not just another Internet Radio app

    2016 · nradio.f20.be · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Podcasts & Radio in one place

    2025 · 1tuner.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Hi, I built TuneJourney to solve a specific annoyance: radio ads and DJ chatter. The core feature is an in-browser "AI Skip Talk" filter. The Tech: Instead of processing on a server, it uses the Web Audio API to capture the stream locally and runs a lightweight ML classification model directly in your browser. It estimates the music vs. speech probability in near real-time. If enabled, it automatically triggers a "next" command to hop to another station the moment an ad, news segment, or DJ starts talking. Features: - In-browser Inference: Entirely local and privacy-focused; no audio data…

    Apr 2026 · tunejourney.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Your friendly guide to great podcasts

    2015 · earbud.fm · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Limitless music, radio stations and podcasts

    2023 · its alternatives →

  11. 11
    Triode▲80

    Enjoy your favorite Internet radio stations wherever you go.

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    I listen to online radio all the time while working, but none of the web based apps I found fit my needs. So I built RadioPuppy.com - https://radiopuppy.com It’s a lightweight web app that lets you quickly search thousands of online streaming radio stations and save your favourites. I’m using the excellent https://www.radio-browser.info API as the data source for stations. The tech stack is: Laravel 12, Inertia.js, React, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Future features I am thinking of... - Let users upload their own stream URLs, so if something isn’t available via the API, they…

    2025 · radiopuppy.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    An age-old problem for all of us (surely),in our experience we have a hard time discovering podcasts or just letting our favorites play in the background like white noise Sooooooo... I made this to recreate Radio for Podcasts, which works especially well given how Open Source RSS is. We made it so it runs in the browser, though we would love to develop an App to accompany you too. No accounts, no sign-ins, Just quickly hop in and listen. If you want to create an account to save episodes, earn some badges, or save preferences, it is also Free, but not required to listen. Over 100 channels to…

    May 2026 · listen.sonoday.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14IC

    If you want to keep up with the latest news, podcasts, plus listen to Spotify music delivered in a new way, you should try out AudioOne FYI. AudioOne FYI delivers a personalized radio experience of everything that matters to you, no one else. Just create an account and tell AudioOne what you like, it will deliver everything as an audio first experience. Get up to 3 personal audio newsletters a day, with The latest news, subscribed and preferred podcasts and short topical audio clips. Search for the latest news and podcast episodes powered by Google and other sources and listen, not read the…

    2022 · audioone.fyi · its alternatives →

  15. 15
    Raddio▲97

    Collaborative Real-Time Radio w/ Friends!

    2014 · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    Hey HN! I've been working on Muxamp for over a year now, and I decided that there's no point in keeping the source closed. (I never planned on making money from it.) I've learned a lot since I started, and I hope others can benefit from its release--and perhaps teach me a thing or two as well :)

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    A radically simpler & faster SoundCloud player

    2014 · its alternatives →

  18. 18MA

    Here is the backstory: I used to use YouTube Music, but then I deleted my Google account. I didn't want Spotify because I hate it for various reasons, and at the same time I wanted to show off my programming skills. So here we are. --- On the client: solidjs + tailwindcss + minisearch. IndexedDB as the database. One web worker to download audio to OPFS. Another web worker for indexing with minisearch. On top of this a service worker to precache static assets and make the app work offline. On the server: bun + astro + sqlite + ffmpeg. Full-text search is implemented with fts5. Astro Actions…

    2025 · mayo.clumsy.fish · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    New generation Z music player

    2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20

    Schedule programs, manage media, hand off to live broadcasts, and keep a single internet radio station running from your own server.

    Aug 2026 · rdio-docs.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    I got tired of doom-scrolling and skimming headlines that all blur together, so I built a small site that turns today’s tech and startup news into a calm, continuous radio-style stream. No playlists. No jumping tabs. You just press play and listen. It updates throughout the day and feels more like tuning into a station than consuming feeds. Curious if this kind of “news radio for the internet” makes sense or if it’s just me

    Dec 2025 · tera.fm · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Music player server with a web-based user interface. - andrewrk/groovebasin

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    idle.fm is an app that looks at the music you have "liked" on Facebook, then builds a playlist on Spotify based on recommendations. I built it in the few hours I have free during the last couple of weeks. There's still a few rough edges (it's quite slow at the mo) but I thought I'd show you guys. It should work on iphones, although there aren't tailored views yet. Do you think it's worth me continuing development? Suggestions, problems? Disclaimer: it posts to your profile when you create a playlist. http://idle.fm

    2011 · idle.fm · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Hey HN i’m a platform engineer and my day job I mainly focus on kubernetes clusters and terraform with the occasional C#, Typescript when building services, so this could well be completely out of my depth. Jolt started as an experiment to see whether I could build my own network at all. I’ll also be honest that most of this code was agentically written. However the high level decisions and architecture were mine based on research, experimentation, trial and error. Canary testing was one of the consequences of that when you build this way you need something slapping your AI-driven confidence…

    Aug 2026 · alexanderwanyoike.github.io · its alternatives →

Also compare

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →