LTBR.FM
The Frequency, On Your Desk

The Receiver

A little radio for your computer. Open it, and LTBR·FM is already playing — warm lamplight, swinging needles, no browser tab to lose. Free, for Windows, Mac and Linux.

The LTBR.FM Receiver's default face — the Wavemaster 3000, a cream-and-walnut stereo FM receiver with twin VU meters, an illuminated tuning dial parked on LTBR.FM and volume and tuning knobsThe Wavemaster 3000 in its compact size — twin VU meters, power and mute buttons and a volume knob
Fast-Forward A Few Decades

The Digital Face

Same Receiver, different decade. Flip it over and the walnut gives way to amber-on-black: a dot-matrix display scrolling what's playing, a spectrum analyser dancing along, a 12-band graphic equaliser — and a STREAM box that tunes into any station URL you paste in.

The Receiver's digital face — an amber-on-black radio with a dot-matrix display, spectrum analyser, 12-band graphic equaliser and a stream URL tunerThe digital face in its compact size — spectrum analyser, pause and mute buttons and a volume slider

It just plays

No account, no playlist, no decisions. Open the Receiver, press POWER, and London comes in as the dial lamp warms up. One little window, already tuned to the station.

Two faces, one radio

It wakes up as the Wavemaster 3000 — cream, walnut and swinging needles. Fancy the future instead? Flip it over to the digital face: amber dot-matrix, spectrum analyser, the works. Same station either way.

Make it sound like yours

On the digital face, twelve sliders run from deep bass (31) up to sparkle (16k). Not sure where to start? Four buttons do it for you — FLAT plays it as broadcast, PIRATE adds that rooftop-aerial warmth, BASS brings the low end forward, and VOICE lifts the talk.

Big rig or bedside set

Every face comes in two sizes. The full rig gives you the whole front panel; the compact set trims it down to the essentials — meters, volume, mute — for the corner of a busy desk.

Free · Windows / Mac / Linux

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Prefer the source? Every version of the Receiver lives on the GitHub releases page.