Radio Browser integration for Top, Germany, Netherlands, World, search, favorites, recents, and manual stations
Native SwiftUI macOS UI with sidebar, list, detail panel, player bar, settings, and menu bar extra
Station folders for organizing favorites and saved stations
Stream playback through AVPlayer
Playback states: connecting, buffering, playing, paused, stopped, failed
Stream metadata display via AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput
Station favicons/artwork with local disk cache
Now Playing artwork resolution with fallback chain: metadata lookup, station favicon, app default artwork
Mini Player with Cmd+M

Project Layout

Package.swift SwiftPM package with:
- BearWaveCore shared app logic and resources
- BearWave app executable
- BearWaveChecks lightweight verification executable
Sources/BearWaveApp App entrypoint and scene setup
Sources/BearWaveCore App logic split into:
- App/ high-level app coordinator (AppModel.swift)
- Models/ domain models (RadioStation, StationGroup, PlaybackStatus, PlaybackError, StationPage)
- Services/ Radio Browser client, playback controller, artwork loading, Now Playing artwork resolution
- Stores/ persistence, settings, station library
- Views/ SwiftUI UI (sidebar, list, detail, player bar, settings, menu bar, mini player)
- Support/ resource helpers
- Resources/ localized strings, assets, entitlements placeholder
Tests/BearWaveChecks Executable smoke checks for decoding, search normalization, filtering, and library behavior
script/build_and_run.sh Local build, bundle, and launch entrypoint

Build and Run

./script/build_and_run.sh

Useful modes:

./script/build_and_run.sh --verify
./script/build_and_run.sh --debug
./script/build_and_run.sh --logs
./script/build_and_run.sh --telemetry

Target platform is macOS 26
Preferred workspace is: /Users/sebastian/Development/radioappmac
Build with: swift build --disable-index-store
Lightweight verification: CLANG_MODULE_CACHE_PATH=/private/tmp/bearwave-clang-cache swift run --disable-index-store BearWaveChecks
The generated app bundle lives in: ./dist/BearWave.app
The run script stages SwiftPM resource bundles and localization directories manually into the app bundle

Audio playback uses AVPlayer
Stream metadata is read through AVPlayerItemMetadataOutput
PlaybackController exposes explicit playback states instead of a simple play/pause boolean
Some radio streams provide current-song metadata; many do not
MediaPlayer is imported with @preconcurrency because the app updates MPNowPlayingInfoCenter
MPMediaItemArtwork is created from a stable CGImage request handler
ATS is explicitly opened for media and http:// streams in the generated app Info.plist, otherwise many radio streams do not play

Data is stored under native macOS locations:

Application Support/BearWave/
- favorites.json
- manual-stations.json
- groups.json
- state.json
Caches/BearWave/
- api_cache/
- artwork cache files

The app also tries to import old Linux-style files on first run if present:

Search is global against Radio Browser and independent from the current browse page
Search results appear on a dedicated Search Results page
Search ranking intentionally filters naive mid-word matches such as slam matching Islamabad
A right-side detail panel shows station metadata and current stream metadata when available
German localization is active across the app

The app is currently a SwiftPM-staged .app, not an Xcode-managed release app
Debug signing and sandbox behavior are intentionally pragmatic, not release-ready
Resource handling is functional but still tied to the custom staging script