Resource sheet for online community radios

online radio starter kit

06.03.2026
Resource sheet for online community radios

An initiatove started at Parallel Society Festival where we shared resources for creating a non profit, streaming radio online and getting funding. Will be updated as more intelligence and resources come in


Playlist and scheduled broadcasting software: open source, free


https://libretime.org/

As Sourcefabric mentioned in their recent statement, their development efforts are concentrating on the SaaS offering of Airtime.pro. For a while now, changes are not being merged back into the open source branch of AirTime and the branches have started to diverge heavily. While Sourcefabric in principle wants to continue to support the open source branch of AirTime, they are prohibited from doing so for financial reasons. Effectively, the development of the open source version of AirTime has come to a stop.

We as broadcasters depend on a continuously updated and maintained version of AirTime. Sourcefabric offered three solutions in their statement: 1) Wait for them to have time to merge SaaS features back to the open source version 2) Start using the SaaS offering Airtime.pro 3) Fork AirTime and continue development independently.

For the last two years, we have hoped for solution 1. However, since no progress seems to have been made, we have decided to fork the project. This will enable us to coordinate our development efforts and will enable AirTime to continue to evolve as an open source, on-premises solution.

The undersigned contributors have begun undertaking the necessary steps to start this endeavour under the moniker ''LibreTime''. We aim to create a community managed radio solution with an active developer community that is both easy to install and use. There is also a taiga where we have started to coordinate.

We invite everyone to join our efforts of becoming a friendly inclusive community of stations from around the globe that use, document and improve LibreTime. Join us in fixing bugs and in defining how we manage the codebase going forward.

We believe that AirTime offers a solid foundation for an excellent online and terrestrial radio broadcast infrastructure, and are very grateful that Sourcefabric offered it to the world in the spirit of libre and open source software. In this same spirit, we aim to use this offer and adapt it to our current needs. If in future Sourcefabric has the capacity to spend developer time on merging features back from their SaaS-branch or offer any other kind of collaboration, we are very open to discuss any potential for cooperation as it arises.



Live broadcasting and recording software: free and open source

https://danielnoethen.de/butt/


BUTT (Broadcast Using This Tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports Icecast, Shoutcast and WebRTC and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. The main purpose of BUTT is to stream live audio from your computers microphone or line input to an Icecast, Shoutcast or WebRTC (WHIP) server. If you want you can also record your broadcast locally on your computer. With BUTT you can not directly stream audio files. However, with the help of tools like Voicemeeter (Windows), Blackhole (macOS) and PulseAudio (Linux) you can also stream audio files directly from your favorite music player.

Information about the Non-profit Cultural Association format


https://www.gov.pt/guias/participacao-civica/participacao-civica-criar-e-fazer-parte-de-associacoes


Funding via Direcção-Geral das Artes / DGARTES


https://www.dgartes.gov.pt/pt/vnode/1


Funding via Câmara Municipal de Lisboa


https://informacoeseservicos.lisboa.pt/servicos/detalhe/atribuicao-de-apoios-pelo-municipio-de-lisboa


 Bonus:

Discover and support underground music communities around the world.

https://subcult.music/