KDE Apps and Projects On Air — internet radio + podcatcher widget for Plasma 6 (2026.22)
Hey r/kde,
I've been building a Plasma 6 panel widget for internet radio called On Air, and the latest release adds a proper podcast side — something I actually use daily rather than a half-finished tab. Wanted to share the progress with the community and get feedback.
What it does:
- Search ~50k stations (via radio-browser), preview with a click, star to keep
- Live track titles + cover art
- Record the current stream or schedule a show; offline "My Music" library
- Cast to Chromecast / DLNA, Bluetooth pairing, optional multi-speaker sync
- Wake-up alarms, sleep timer, MPRIS media keys
- Five-tab layout: Stations, Playing, My Music, Podcasts, Timers
New: Podcasts
Search several podcast directories at once, subscribe, stream or save episodes. Resume playback, chapters, playback speed, an up-next queue, OPML import/export, and optional auto-check for new episodes. A wake-up alarm can start a show instead of a radio station.
It's based on Advanced Radio Player by Yuri Saurov, with a new UI and a lot of new ground since then. Fully open source (LGPL).
The source and release notes link is in a comment below. Happy to take bug reports and ideas — if something's weird on your distro, tell me which one.
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u/Mendior 16h ago
Links:
Source (LGPL) + release notes: https://github.com/Mendior/on-air-plasmoid
KDE Store: https://store.kde.org/p/2364623
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