de.nerdbear.bearwave CC0-1.0 GPL-3.0-or-later BearWave

KDE-focused desktop internet radio app

BearWave is designed for fast station browsing, simple playback controls, favorites, resume support, tray behavior, and clean Plasma integration without turning into a heavy media suite.

Features:

Internet radio via the Radio Browser API with local JSON caching
Station pages for Top, Germany, Netherlands, and quick world/genre filters
Local search and filtering by name, genre, and country
Sorting by name, bitrate, and votes
Favorites with persistent local storage
Playback metadata display when streams provide it
Resume support for last station and volume
MPRIS integration for Plasma media controls and media keys
System tray integration for background playback
Desktop notifications for song/track changes with local cover art caching

de.nerdbear.bearwave.desktop https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spalencsar/bearwave/main/screenshots/screen01.png Main window displaying radio categories https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spalencsar/bearwave/main/screenshots/screen02.png Station browser and search filters https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spalencsar/bearwave/main/screenshots/screen03.png The About dialog showing application info https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spalencsar/bearwave/main/screenshots/screen04.png Application view https://github.com/spalencsar/bearwave https://github.com/spalencsar/bearwave/issues Sebastian (spalencsar) bearwave

Fixed headless CI unit tests (Qt offscreen + FFmpeg backend)
Includes 1.0.4: URL validation, playback/tray/MPRIS fixes, modular QML UI
Flatpak: KDE 6.10 runtime, signed repo updates, QML resource path fix
About dialog shows version and git build id; removed “Public beta” label
Fixed About, Add station, and Edit station dialogs not opening after QML refactor

Security: validate manual stream URLs (http/https only) and HTTPS-only cover downloads
Security: add network transfer timeouts for metadata and cover fetches
Fixed playback navigation, API race conditions, Wayland tray, and MPRIS metadata
Refactored QML UI into modular components

Added dynamic World Categories dashboard showing country flags and popular genre tags
Added country name localization support for German systems
Added local API caching for countries retrieved from Radio Browser
Optimized Categories view layout to prevent text clipping

Fixed crash in IcyReader when changing or stopping streams
Fixed metadata overwrite bug where valid ICY stream metadata was cleared
Fixed DBus crash under KDE Plasma Wayland
Fixed regex parser bug with stream titles containing apostrophes
Fixed infinite loading of radio stations by adding transfer timeout
Added single instance check via DBus
Added SPDX license identifiers and relicensed to GPL-3.0-or-later

Fixed NotificationManager crash (segfault)
Migrated to modern QtMultimedia engine from legacy Phonon
Added Flatpak manifest and build support
Added debounced online search