Weird Waves

Booth

Control your queue here—you can also add shows or series from the Archive.

Queue

    Data

    The data below updates automatically every time the playlist changes.

    To save your data, copy the text (you can also click the “Copy” button to copy it to clipboard) and paste it somewhere safe.

    To import your data, paste the data into the box, then click the “Import” button.

    Archive

    This list includes information about every show available on the site.

      News

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      https://weirdwaves.net/feed.xml

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        About

        Weird Waves is a curated radio play and audiobook archive of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction! Find shows in the Archive, check or re-order your queue in the Booth, and listen to them in the Player. Have fun!

        Content notes

        The Archive has content notes for individual shows, but there's a few general ones: death and worse fates, and implicit bigotry in the older series.

        Small details

        Show numbers in the LibriVox selection

        The LibriVox audiobooks here are a tiny selection from that site, numbered in the order I added them here. The reason there are gaps (e.g. no “LibriVox selection 6”) is because I've occasionally removed shows from the Archive, but renumbering would throw off any saved queues.

        Bangers (the “+ Banger” button)

        This is an extra layer of curation. These are, in my opinion, the best shows in the Archive—about the top quarter. I've tried to pick diverse kinds of shows from as many series as possible. My opinions change now and then.

        Colour-blindness themes

        Six themes (Coalgas, Root, Natron, Gauze, Mycelia, and Cellar) are based on other themes under simulated colour-blindness. They're not necessarily better for people with colour deficiencies, though most of the themes have good contrast and should be legible to almost anyone.

        Streaming

        This section covers how to use Weird Waves as a livestream widget via broadcast software like Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). Most of this only applies if you want to show Weird Waves visually on-stream. Either way, check the main Settings too.

        Making a widget

        1. Create a browser source.
        2. Set its URL to https://weirdwaves.net/.
        3. Delete its default custom CSS.
        4. Resize and crop it.
        5. Right-click it and select “Interact” to use it just like you are now.

        Optionally, replace the custom CSS with the following to add space above and below the player, to more easily isolate it in an overlay:

        #player-container {
	margin-block: 100vh;
}

        Customising the style

        Set the theme to “Dark” and font to “Serif”, then add this custom CSS:

        [data-theme="dark"] {
	--fore-colour: your foreground colour;
	--back-colour: your background colour;
	--hot-colour: your hot colour;
	--cold-colour: your cold colour;
}
[data-font="serif"] {
	--font-stack: your font;
}

        Replace your * colour with your own colour values. These can be any valid CSS colours: hex codes, RGB values, HTML colour names, etc. Replace your font with the name of any font installed on your computer. If the name includes a space, wrap the whole name in quotes (e.g. "Comic Sans").

        Copyright?

        All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. The copyright status of old radio broadcasts is murky, but virtually any person or organisation who could press a claim is long dead or gone, and almost nobody cares about the atom-thin penny shavings you'd make from streaming ancient, commercially-irrelevant radio broadcasts on Twitch.

        If you're still concerned, switch on the following toggle to exclude certain series when adding random shows or the entire archive to the queue: CAS selection, The Mercury Theatre, Mindwebs, Nightfall, and Seeing Ear Theater.

        Some of these (The Mercury Theatre and Nightfall) are muted on Twitch due to copyright claims. The others are possible, but unconfirmed, risks.

        Settings

        Control how Weird Waves looks and functions here.

        Player

        Queue

        Content notes

        Site theme

        Note: Themes have no effect on the page in forced-colours or high-contrast mode.

        Site font

        Contact

        Know a great radio show or audiobook to add to the Archive?

        Got questions, feedback, feature requests?

        Need technical assistance with the site?

        Call in at maintenance@weirdwaves.net!

        Credits

        Want to know where things came from?

        Shows

        You can find links to all series sources in the Archive.

        Fonts

        The serif font is subset from Bitter (Open Font License) by Sol Matas.

        The sans-serif font is subset from Fira Sans (Open Font License) by Carrois Type Design.

        The code font is subset from Fira Mono (Open Font License) by Carrois Type Design.

        Hosting

        The site is currently hosted on Neocities.

        Welcome to Weird Waves!

        Weird Waves is an audio horror site where you can explore the classics and hidden gems of 20th-century radio plays and public-domain audiobooks.