Guide
How to listen to live radio online
Listening to live radio online is not the same as opening a music app and shuffling a library. A live station has a presenter, a clock, local ads, and a stream URL that belongs to the operator. AngryBeat is a free discovery player for those streams. This guide explains how to start, what you are actually hearing, and how to move between countries, genres, and languages without creating an account.
What “live radio online” means here
On AngryBeat, a card is a station that publishes a public internet stream. Listings come from the community Radio Browser directory. We keep a local cache of that directory so a short outage does not blank the site. When you tap Play, the browser talks to the station’s encoder — not to a file AngryBeat uploaded.
That is why you still hear talk, news, and ads. It is also why a station can fail in your country, stall on a phone, or go dark overnight. We do not re-encode the audio, and we do not pretend a downloaded MP3 is a broadcast. If you wanted a playlist, a streaming service already does that job better. This site exists for people who want the live desk.
Start in three taps
Open the homepage. Use the map or the country list if you know a place; open Genres if you know a sound; open Languages if you care which language the presenter uses. Station of the day is one worldwide pick that changes at midnight UTC — a single link you can share.
Tap a station. The sticky player at the bottom of the page starts the stream and stays with you while you browse. Heart a card to keep it in Favorites on this device. There is no sign-in. Clearing site data clears Favorites; that is the trade for not running accounts.
Each station also has its own crawlable page at /station/… with prose, facts (country, language, tags, codec, bitrate when the directory has them), similar stations, and a report form. Share that URL when you want someone to open the same live station, not a random search result.
Country, genre, and language hubs
Countries is the honest way to browse FM culture. India, Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States do not share a breakfast show. Genre pages group stations that tagged themselves Afrobeat, Bollywood, jazz, and so on — useful, but tags are messy. Language hubs group by the language field in the directory, with light alias merging so “español” and “Spanish” sit together.
Use the search box for a station name, a country alias (USA, UK), or a featured genre. If a stream dies, the player can try a similar live station from the same list. That failover is a courtesy, not a promise that every encoder in the world will start in a phone browser.
What AngryBeat does not do
We do not sell downloads. We do not host station audio. We do not invent FM frequencies, owners, phone numbers, or street addresses. Codec and bitrate, when shown, are stream facts from the directory — not a transmitter frequency. If metadata is wrong, use Report a problem on the station card; reports are anonymous and rate-limited.
Ads on the site, when Google shows them, are separate from the station’s own ads inside the stream. You can listen without creating a profile. For longer reading, see why streams fail and how Station of the day is picked.
FAQ
Yes. No account is required. Favorites stay in this browser. Streams come from the stations via Radio Browser, not from a catalogue we own.
Live broadcast. Each card is a station with a public stream URL. Talk and ads still come through.
Heart it for Favorites, open the station from search or a country hub, or start with Station of the day if you only want one worldwide link.