Are you ready to immerse yourself in the ultimate music experience?
Whether you're a casual gamer grinding through levels, a competitive esports enthusiast seeking focus, or simply an audiophile who appreciates a great soundtrack, Radio GAMING is built for you.
Radio GAMING is a streamlined internet radio player designed to deliver high-quality music without distractions.
What started as a simple university coursework project quickly evolved into a passion project. The initial concept was straightforward: build a functional radio player. However, as development progressed, I realized the potential to create a dedicated hub for gaming music that I—and others—would actually want to use daily. Today, it stands as a fully featured, cross-platform application that I'm proud to continue updating.
- Multiple Curated Stations: Switch seamlessly between different vibes and genres to match your current gameplay style.
- High-Quality Audio: Built on ICECAST MP3 streaming for low-latency, high-fidelity sound.
- Media Session Integration: Control playback and view track info directly from your OS media controls, keyboard media keys, or mobile lock screen.
- Smart Album Art: Automatically fetches high-resolution covers using a multi-source engine (Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, and YouTube) with intelligent similarity scoring.
- Beat-Reactive Visualizer: A built-in visualizer that pulses interface elements and album art in sync with the audio frequencies.
- Dynamic Theming: UI accents and glow effects adapt in real-time to match the identity of the active station.
- Immersive Modes: Toggle between Grid and List views for your song history, and use Fullscreen Mode (
F11) for distraction-free gaming.
- Real-Time Station Chat: Log in with Discord to connect with other listeners.
- Custom Emojis & Reactions: Upload your own icons and react to messages with a variety of emojis (persisted in MySQL database).
- Image Sharing: Share screenshots or gameplay moments directly in chat (up to 2MB).
- GIF Picker: Full Giphy integration with a personal "Favorites" system for your most-used GIFs.
- Song Sharing in Chat: Reference the currently playing track when sending a message, displayed as a rich embed in chat.
- @Mention System: Get notified instantly when someone tags you in the chat across any station, with autocomplete suggestions.
- Message Deletion: Delete your own messages or any message (admins). Deletions sync across all clients in real-time.
- Smart Presence: See who's online, what they're listening to, and their Discord profiles in the active listener's list. View detailed user profiles with listening stats.
- Now Playing Webhooks: Share tracks directly to Discord with rich embeds including art and direct links — via configured server channels or custom webhook URLs.
- Anonymous Listener Tracking: Non-logged-in users automatically receive a unique ID with full listening stats (songs, total time, favorites) persisted to the database. Stats can be claimed when the user logs in via Discord.
- Global Listener Rankings: Leaderboard tab showing top listeners by total listening time with medals and formatted durations.
- Personal Listening Stats: Track your total listening time, song count, most-listened tracks, and per-station breakdowns.
- Admin Anonymous Stats Panel: Admin users can browse all anonymous listener profiles with search, sort, and detailed song breakdowns.
- Server-Side Stats Dashboard: Live widget showing online users, registered user count, and unique anonymous user count.
- Data Export & Import: Backup or restore your favorites, history, and settings via JSON export/import.
- Song History & Favorites: View your recently played tracks and build a collection of your favorites.
- Persistent Experience: Your volume, visualizer settings, and GIF favorites are saved automatically between sessions.
- Smart Notifications: Non-intrusive in-app toasts for track changes, mentions, and system updates.
Experience Radio GAMING as a native application with dedicated features:
- Discord Rich Presence (RPC): Automatically syncs your active station, current song, and album art to your Discord status.
- Smart Persistence: Unlike browsers that may clear data, the Desktop App uses dedicated local storage in
AppDatato keep your tokens, themes, and favorites safe. - Native Performance: Built with a lightweight webview for low memory footprint and fast startup.
- Custom Hotkeys:
F11: Deep-immersion Fullscreen.Shift + F7: Instant cache purge and application refresh.
- Easy Installation: Includes a standalone installer (
.exe) and a portable standalone EXE for quick setup on Windows.
Play Radio GAMING directly inside Discord as an embedded activity:
- Discord SDK Integration: Seamlessly authenticates users via the Discord Embedded App SDK.
- Full Feature Parity: All core features — stations, chat, history, favorites — available within the Discord client.
- Automatic Login: Users are instantly authenticated through the Discord Activity context.
A professional-grade broadcasting tool for our live streamers:
- Link & Play: Queue tracks directly from YouTube or Spotify.
- Hybrid Sources: Mix local MP3s with cloud searches and live microphone input.
- Direct Zeno Integration: Low-latency broadcasting with automated metadata syncing.
- WebAPP — Main web player at radio-gaming.stream
- DiscordActivityWebApp — Variant built for Discord's Embedded App SDK
- DesktopAPP — Windows desktop wrapper with Discord RPC support
Backend Services (hosted on the Discord Bot Launcher Manager)
- DiscordAuthChatApi — Discord OAuth2 login, real-time chat, user sessions, custom emojis, online presence, anonymous stats, and listener rankings. All data persisted to MySQL.
- K5ApiManager — Spotify/YouTube/Giphy token proxy, album cover search engine (multi-source with similarity scoring), Discord webhook relay, server uptime, and running services API.
- ZenoFMApi — Zeno FM analytics scraper (live listener count via headless Chrome/Selenium).
- Frontend: Vanilla HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (Reactive UI)
- Backend Services:
- Python (Flask): Custom Discord OAuth, Real-time Chat API, Listener Stats
- Proxy Services: Album cover fetcher (Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, YouTube), token proxies
- Database: MySQL (chat messages, user profiles, sessions, custom emojis, anonymous stats, service stats)
- Streaming Platform: Zeno FM Icecast Infrastructure
- Integrations: Spotify Web API, YouTube Data API, Giphy API, Discord OAuth2, Discord Embedded App SDK
- Hosting: Heroku (backend), custom domain (frontend)
Don't just take my word for it. Experience the radio directly in your browser: 👉 Listen Live at radio-gaming.stream
Take Radio GAMING beyond the browser! Download our standalone application for the best experience:
- 📦 Windows Desktop Launcher (Installer): Download Installer
- Includes: Auto-updater, Discord RPC, and Global Hotkeys.
- 📦 Windows Standalone EXE (Portable): Download Standalone
- No installation required. Just run and play.
Radio GAMING — Powering Your Gaming Experience.
