Alien Pirate Radio overview

Alien Pirate Radio is a macOS desktop music player for local music libraries. It scans a user-selected music folder, plays supported audio files, reads optional RSS news bulletins, and uses locally installed AI tools such as Ollama and Kokoro to generate spoken radio-style DJ links. Your music files stay on your computer and are not uploaded. This is not streaming or broadcasting software.

Features

One hour trial mode
Plays local music files from nested folders
Supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, M4A, AAC, and OGG
AI-generated alien DJ links using local Ollama
Built-in Normal Radio mode without AI
Kokoro text-to-speech voices bundled
Scheduled shows with different presenters
RSS news bulletins
Genre, mood, artist, and playlist filters
M3U/M3U8 playlist support
No repeats option
Jingles, ducking, compression, and signal interference
Studio, Radio, and Mini Radio views

What's new in version 1.3.2

Fixed

Reduced repeated DJ phrases, including recurring Venn wording such as “I keep noticing”.
Improved DJ identity handling to reduce third-person self-reference and presenter confusion.
Improved versioned update downloads to reduce cached installer mix-ups.
Improved fallback behaviour when Kokoro text-to-speech is unavailable.

New

Added refreshed presenter personalities for Captain Venn, Commander Krell, and DJ Spacedust.
Added versioned Mac download links for app updates.
Added updated User Guide content reflecting the revised DJ profiles.

Improved

Improved handling of unavailable music folders.
Captain Venn is now warmer, less gloomy, and more conversational.
Commander Krell is now more music-first, knowledgeable, and less relentlessly combative.
DJ Spacedust keeps his upbeat pop-radio energy and three-brain nonsense.
Reduced overuse of smuggling stories, commute references, melancholy language, and anthropological phrasing.
Improved prompt guidance for alien and sci-fi references in track metadata.