A menu bar radio for people who just want the music on.
About
RadioBar is a macOS internet radio player that lives entirely in the menu bar — no window, no Dock icon, no library to manage. The design premise: listening to radio is a background activity, so the player should occupy background space.
Every interaction is compressed into a single menu bar item. A left-click pauses and resumes; a right-click opens the stations. A fixed-width ticker shows what's on air — the station name holds still while the show title scrolls past it, so the eye always finds the same anchor and the surrounding menu bar icons never shift. Show names are pulled live from station APIs and stream metadata, giving NTS and community radio broadcasts their real titles instead of a generic "Playing" label.
Station management follows macOS conventions end to end: a native panel with drag-to-reorder, instant saves, and no Apply button. Built with Python and AppKit, audio via AVFoundation, and shipped as a 11 MB self-contained app that friends install by dragging it into Applications.
Code and download on Github