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Airwave — self-hosted shared radio

Airwave — self-hosted shared radio

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# Airwave — self-hosted shared radio Most “listen together” features aren’t actually synced. Everyone plays their own stream, which leads to drift, platform lock-in, or awkward coordination. Airwave solves this by flipping the model. Paste a YouTube, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, or Spotify playlist link and it generates a single live MP3 stream that everyone listens to in sync. Quick start docker run -d -p 8000:8000 ghcr.io/76696265636f646572/airwave Open http://localhost:8000 , paste a link, and share the URL. How it works yt-dlp → ffmpeg → one shared stream → all listeners No per-user playback. No sync issues. Highlights Single /stream/live.mp3 for all listeners Collaborative queue with real-time updates Multi-source playback (YouTube, SoundCloud, Mixcloud) Spotify playlist import with automatic matching Sonos support on local network Stack FastAPI, Vue 3, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, SQLite Why Because shared music should be synced, simple, and not tied to a single platform. Airwave is a shared radio f

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