Radio Browser Plugin

Bring internet radio streaming directly into your Q-SYS Core. Browse, search, and play stations from the free, community-maintained Radio Browser directory, tens of thousands of stations worldwide, no subscription, no account, and no extra hardware.

Key functionality:

Up to four independent zones, each with its own stream, volume, and presets

Search by name or country, or browse the directory's charts by genre

36 shared preset slots, recallable from the plugin, a UCI, or a third-party control system

Auto Failover, automatically falls back through saved presets if a station drops or goes silent, so a dead stream never means a silent room

Stream health and directory status feedback

Simple playback controls, with crossfaded station switching for a clean handover

Built for reliable day-to-day commercial use: presets refresh their stream addresses automatically at every startup, and volume always resets to a safe level after a reboot. The plugin streams MP3 stations only, matching what Q-SYS's Media Stream Receiver decodes. Requires a Core with outbound internet access, like any network-dependent plugin, it won't stream or search in Designer emulation. No licence or activation required.

V3.0 - Station fallback, cleaner station transitions, LAN selection, station resync

V2.0 - additional edits with playback function

V1.0 - Initial release on Q-SYS Devs FB page 

Radio stations and search data are provided by Radio Browser, a free, open, community-maintained directory. This plugin is an independent third-party client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Radio Browser project.