ARCHIPLAYER

LOCAL-FIRST · OPEN SOURCE

Freeform radio.
Just play it.

A fast desktop library for decades of WFMU broadcasts. Search the catalogue, follow playlists, save favourites and take episodes offline; without an account or a cloud.

Early builds for Windows. macOS and Linux coming soon.

The Archiplayer desktop app showing a WFMU episode playlist beneath the persistent player controls.
Browsing a show’s episodes. The player stays pinned across the top.

RADIO SHOULD FEEL LIKE DISCOVERY.

“Browse, listen and save all in one place”

01 / What it does

Your own listening place

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Find your favourite show

Browse every current and past show. Search DJs instantly and search tracks as playlists enter your local cache (Because we are mindful of web traffic).

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Play the archive

Queue whole shows, single episodes or jump straight to a track’s timestamp. Resume where you stopped.

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Land on the beat

Press the bar to jump. Drag and a loupe opens, gearing the scrub down to a quarter of a pixel so you land on the downbeat, not near it.

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Keys, not clicks

Play, skip, mute and favourite from the keyboard. Bind what you like, and keep the keys working while another window has focus.

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Keep it offline

Download episodes for travel and slow connections. Choose where the files live; delete them whenever you like.

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Make it yours

Favourite shows, episodes and songs. Listening history and stats stay in one SQLite file on your machine.

Archiplayer’s profile view showing private listening statistics and saved shows and episodes.
Listening stats and favourites stay private on your computer.
Archiplayer collapsed to a compact bar showing only the player controls and the Shows/Profile tabs.
Click the active tab to collapse to a compact player.
Archiplayer’s Customize panel: five colour-scheme presets and per-colour swatches, all saved locally.
Pick a colour scheme, or tweak any colour. Saved locally.
NO LOGINYour taste is not a growth metric.
NO CLOUDYour library stays on your computer.
NO CRAWLINGCache-first and polite to WFMU.

02 / Get Archiplayer

Pick your machine.

These early builds are unsigned. The source is public, but Windows will ask you to confirm that you trust the app.

Windows

Windows 10 or later · x64

Download .exe
SmartScreen instructions

Choose More info, verify that the download came from this repository, then choose Run anyway.

macOS

Distribution paused · source build supported

Coming soon
Build it from source

The universal build still works from source on Intel and Apple Silicon. Follow the macOS section of the build guide.

Linux

Packaging and compatibility validation in progress

Coming soon

BUILD IT YOURSELF

One source. Windows or macOS.

Prefer not to run an unsigned binary, or want the Mac build today? Follow the build walkthrough in the repository.

Open build guide ↗

VERIFY YOUR DOWNLOAD

Verify what you downloaded.

Compare your file’s hash against SHA256SUMS.txt, or review the VirusTotal scan. Unsigned installers draw heuristic flags: two of 69 engines flag this build, both machine-learning verdicts with no named malware family.