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About SUB/WAVE

SUB/WAVE is an open-source internet radio station that replaces traditional DJs with an agentic AI system. It streams a single broadcast to all listeners simultaneously, with an LLM-powered DJ that selects tracks, speaks between songs, and adapts to the time of day. The system uses a cloned voice persona and can be configured with different language models and speech engines. Listeners tune into a live broadcast with no skip controls, seeing the current track, a timeline of upcoming and past songs, and a live log of everything the DJ says. The player is available as native iOS and Android apps, desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux, a PWA, and even traditional streaming formats like M3U and PLS for hardware radios. The interface is fully skinnable with multiple visual themes, but the broadcast remains the same for everyone. The DJ is powered by a language model that reads the time, weather, calendar events, and listener requests to pick the next track from the user's own music library. It writes and speaks original content between songs, and can hand off to different personas for scheduled shows or guest co-hosts. The entire stack is modular: the language model and speech engine are swappable, supporting local options like Ollama and Piper, or cloud services like OpenAI and ElevenLabs.