The Indie Beat Radio

Discover independent music from artists in the Fediverse.

The Indie Beat Radio federates with Bandwagon.fm to amplify its music artists who’ve opted-in to distribution. We also play music in the public domain. Listen. Mix. Share.

There are currently 4,120 tracks available on The Indie Beat Radio.

Roadmap

For a more detailed and up-to-minute status of roadmap items, please see the Github project here https://github.com/users/MsPseudolus/projects/1/views/1

Here’s what’s planned/hoped for release coming soon, roughly in order:

  • ✅ Each track links to the artist’s profile (or to the album?) on Bandwagon.fm (Mar 2, 2025 thanks to @AxWax)
  • ✅ Album name and link in track info
  • ✅ Genre-based channels
    • Current genre channels are based upon genre info in the track, itself. Channels have been created for genres where there are enough tracks to make for a reasonable listening experience. If your music is here but isn’t showing up in the correct genre, contact me mizkirsten@mastodon.social . Many tracks came without any genre info.
  • ✅ Genres included in track info (Mar 2, 2025 thanks to @AxWax)
  • ✅ Larger audio player with bigger thumbnail image (Mar 2, 2025 thanks to @AxWax)
  • Limited mixtapes available to listen to
  • Offer personal mixtape creation and stations to users
  • ✅ Artist-run stations
  • Stations shareable as playable posts in the Fediverse
  • Embeddable player for personal and artist stations to put on other webpages
  • Station breaks auto-identified using “station break” as the genre
  • Direct upload to TIBR of station break tracks
  • Clean up track titles to remove appendages and addendages employed by BWFM
  • Federate with Funkwhale
  • add the authors as an mp3 tag in the stream, because mpd always says “Unknown author”