Observed arrival · 2026-10-30
Tuneping, a live index of internet-radio metadata
Tuneping offers a JSON API for searching what internet-radio stations are playing and retrieving current titles, station details, and play history.
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- For
- Developers building internet-radio search or monitoring tools
- Worth noticing
- Each poll reads a few hundred bytes to about 16 KB per station, then closes the connection.
Field notes
The polling workflow starts from the community-maintained Radio Browser directory, then checks each station for a public server-status endpoint or in-stream metadata. The page says polling occurs every 20–60 seconds, allows at most two simultaneous connections per server, and honors robots.txt and Retry-After. Track matching uses MusicBrainz where the text permits; play-start times remain estimates tied to the polling interval.
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