AURIDEI is a way to explore live radio from around the world by exploring the world itself. Instead of scrolling a flat list of station names, you spin a photorealistic 3D globe, zoom into a city or country that catches your interest, and tap a station marker to start listening — live, streaming directly from that station's own broadcast.
Most internet radio directories are just search boxes and category filters — functional, but they treat every station the same way regardless of where it actually broadcasts from. Radio is inherently geographic: a station in Lagos sounds different from a station in Reykjavík not just because of language or genre, but because of the culture, climate, and community it's built for. AURIDEI puts that geography front and center. Wanting to hear what's actually playing in a specific city right now is a completely different, more direct kind of curiosity than searching by genre tag — the globe is built for that.
Under the hood, the globe itself is rendered using Cesium, an open-source 3D mapping engine, combined with Google's Photorealistic 3D Tiles for Earth — the same underlying imagery technology used in tools like Google Earth. Station locations are plotted as live markers directly on that globe, so the visual you're looking at is the actual planet, not a stylized illustration of it.
Listening itself requires no account and no payment. Signing in is entirely optional, and only unlocks cross-device syncing for favorites, saved songs, and your personal listening stats.
AURIDEI doesn't host, broadcast, or re-stream any audio itself. When you tap a station, your browser connects directly to that station's own public stream — the same way it would if you typed the station's stream URL in yourself. AURIDEI's role is purely as a directory: it plots publicly available station metadata (name, location, genre tags, and stream URL) on the globe so you can find and connect to stations you'd otherwise have no easy way to discover.
Station listings are sourced from Radio-Browser, a free, open, community-maintained directory of internet radio stations. Now-playing song information, where available, is read from each station's own broadcast metadata — AURIDEI does not record or fingerprint audio to identify songs.
Alongside Earth's live radio globe, AURIDEI includes three other explorable bodies, each built from real data collected by actual space missions rather than artistic approximations:
Rendered using photorealistic terrain data, letting you explore the Martian surface at the same level of visual detail as Earth's globe.
A fully explorable lunar surface, built the same way — real terrain, not a flat texture wrapped around a sphere.
Built from NASA's Magellan mission radar data via USGS Astrogeology, showing real craters, ridge belts, and volcanic terrain beneath Venus's permanent cloud cover — surface detail no camera has ever directly photographed.
These aren't currently tied to radio listening — they exist because the same globe technology that makes Earth's station map possible can just as easily render any other rocky body in the solar system, and because genuinely seeing these worlds up close, built from real mission data, is worth including on its own.
AURIDEI is an independently built, solo-developed project — not a large company product. It's actively maintained, with new features and fixes shipped regularly. If you run into an issue or have a suggestion, contact@auridei.com reaches a real person.