Tuneping continuously checks tens of thousands of internet-radio stations and makes their announced titles available as live data. It tracks roughly 78,000 stations, of which about 23,000 currently report a title, and classifies changes as songs, station identifiers, programmes, ads, or unusable text. Song matches are linked to MusicBrainz, while historical records preserve when stations announced each title. The service uses this index to support a range of projects, from finding where a song is playing now to monitoring station output, exploring airplay, and building radio charts by country or time period.
The proposed uses include song alerts delivered by webhook or stream, tools that switch stations during announced ad breaks, artist airplay reports, tracklists generated from show histories, and dashboards that flag stale or broken station metadata. Developers could also query the data through an AI-agent interface, export it for research, or add a “playing now” box to an artist’s website. Live searches and charts are available without a key, subject to limits and attribution; history and event features require a paid-tier key, with history extending 10 days on Developer and 30 days on higher plans. The index contains metadata only: it neither processes nor records audio, and its play observations reflect station announcements rather than certified monitoring. Many stations provide no useful title data, so coverage and long-term analysis remain limited.
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