Weird Waves

Booth

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

Playlist

About

Weird Waves is a fake radio station broadcasting horror and weird fiction! You can find shows in the Archive, check or re-order your playlist in the Booth, and listen to them in the Radio. Have fun!

Right now the Archive has:

sources
shows
hours of audio

Content notes

Aside from specific notes in the Archive, there's also a few general ones: death and worse fates (this station's mostly for horror) and implicit bigotry in the older sources (I weed out the worse ones, but the rest still reflect their time).

Streaming

This section covers how to use Weird Waves to provide audio background as a livestreamer, e.g. on Twitch. Make sure to check out the Settings as well.

Making a widget

To use Weird Waves like a stream widget in software like OBS:

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

Isolating the radio

Use this custom CSS to add empty space above and below the radio, for easier cropping:

#radio {
	margin-block: 100vh;
}

Customising the theme

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

.theme-dark {
	--foreground-colour: [colour];
	--background-colour: [colour];
	--hot-detail-colour: [colour];
	--cold-detail-colour: [colour];
}

Replace [colour] with your own colour values. These can be any valid CSS colours: hex codes, RGB values, HTML colour names, etc.

Customising the font

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

.font-serif {
	--font-stack: [font];
}

Replace [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 (the LibriVox selection and several other series in the Archive) are in the public domain.

The copyright status of old radio broadcasts is murky, but they're de facto public domain—any person or organisation who could press a claim is long dead or gone. This isn't legal advice, but… nobody (BBC aside) 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/sources when adding random shows or the entire archive to the playlist: CASiana, The Mercury Theatre, Mindwebs, Nightfall, and Seeing Ear Theater.

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