Overview
GNOME Radio is Free Internet Radio Software for the GNU Network Object Model Environment. The 59.0 release features 231 international radio stations including UCT Radio (South Africa), Radio Warszawa (Poland), BBC (UK), C-SPAN (USA), Hawaii Public Radio (NPR), NPO Radio 1 (Netherlands), Radio Punjab Today (India), University of Washington (USA), Jerusalem 24 (Palestine), Radio Haifa (Israel), as well as 100+ city map markers around the world.
Download & InstallInstallation
Debian 12 / Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
wget https://www.gnomeradio.org/~ole/ubuntu/gnome-radio_57.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gnome-radio_57.0-1_amd64.deb
Fedora Asahi Remix 42
sudo dnf install https://www.gnomeradio.org/~ole/fedora/RPMS/aarch64/gnome-radio-59.0-1.fc42.aarch64.rpm
Fedora Core 42
sudo dnf install https://www.gnomeradio.org/~ole/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/gnome-radio-59.0-1.fc42.x86_64.rpm
macOS (via MacPorts)
sudo port install xorg-server
sudo port install gnome-radio
Windows 11 (via WSL2)
In Windows PowerShell:
wsl.exe --install Debian
In WSL Debian console:
sudo apt-get install geoclue-2.0 gnome-common gcc git make wget
sudo apt-get install debhelper intltool dpkg-dev-el libgeoclue-2-dev
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev libgeocode-glib-dev
sudo apt-get install gtk-doc-tools itstool libxml2-utils yelp-tools
sudo apt-get install libchamplain-0.12-dev libchamplain-gtk-0.12
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev libgeocode-glib-dev
wget https://www.gnomeradio.org/src/gnome-radio-59.0.tar.xz
tar Jxvf gnome-radio-59.0.tar.xz
cd gnome-radio-59.0/
./configure
sudo make && sudo make install
/usr/local/bin/org.gnome.Radio &
/usr/local/bin/gnome-radio &
News
- October 15, 2025: GNOME Radio 59.0 for GNOME 50 released. Download Source
- October 8, 2025: GNOME Radio 58.0 for GNOME 49 released. Download Source
- October 1, 2025: GNOME Radio 57.0 for GNOME 49 released. Download Source
- September 12, 2025: GNOME Radio 56.0 for GNOME 49 released. Download Source
- September 10, 2025: GNOME Radio 54.0 for GNOME 49 released. Download Source
- August 16, 2025: GNOME Radio 52.0 released. Download Source
Publications
- Aamot, Ole (GUADEC 2024). GTK Radio on GNOME 46.
- Aamot, Ole (GUADEC 2023). GNU Network Object Model Environment Radio 64 on GNOME 44.
- Aamot, Ole (GUADEC 2022). GNU Network Object Model Environment Radio 16 on GNOME 42.
- Aamot, Ole (BSc Thesis, 2020). Public Internet Radio Client for Accessing Free Audio Maps in Countries with Free Speech.
Source Code
GitLab Repository · Download Tarball
git clone https://gitlab.stud.idi.ntnu.no/olekaam/radio.git
cd gnome-radio/
autoreconf
./configure
make
sudo make install
gnome-radio
Help
Visit the Help Guide for GNOME Radio 59.0.
A quick introduction is available here.
References
- Shannon, Claude (1948). A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell Labs.
- Nielsen, Michael A. & Chuang, Isaac L. (2021). Quantum Computation and Quantum Information.
- Piccardo, Marco et al. (2019). Laser radio transmitter. MIT Lincoln Laboratory.