About RoamDial — World Radio Map
RoamDial is a live radio discovery service for listeners exploring stations around the world. Its MCP server supports searches by location, genre, and language, as well as queries for currently playing tracks.
Key features
- 01Search by keyword, country, city, genre, or language
- 02Choose a random station by mood or local time
- 03Retrieve station profiles and live track metadata
- 04Return listening and map links
Use cases
- 01Find live stations in a city or genre
- 02Discover a station matching a mood or time of day
- 03Check what a station is playing now
MCP support
The MCP server exposes four read-only tools for station search, random selection, station profiles, and now-playing queries. It supports remote Streamable HTTP and a local stdio bridge.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://roamdial.com/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http ddter-roamdial https://roamdial.com/mcp{"mcpServers":{"ddter-roamdial":{"type":"http","url":"https://roamdial.com/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"ddter-roamdial":{"type":"http","url":"https://roamdial.com/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"ddter-roamdial":{"type":"http","url":"https://roamdial.com/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"ddter-roamdial":{"serverUrl":"https://roamdial.com/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMERoamDial MCP Server — Live World Radio on a 3D Globe
RoamDial is a free, ad-free interactive 3D world radio map with 35,000+ verified live radio streams across 215 countries and territories.
This repository provides the official Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for RoamDial:
- Direct Remote Streamable HTTP Server (
https://roamdial.com/mcp) — zero install, no API key or authentication required. - Lightweight Local
stdioBridge (npx -y github:ddter/roamdial-mcp) — zero-dependency Node.js wrapper for local-only MCP clients.
Quick Start
Option 1: Remote Streamable HTTP (Recommended — Zero Install)
Point any MCP client supporting Streamable HTTP (2025-06-18 / 2025-03-26 / 2026-07-28) directly at:
https://roamdial.com/mcp
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http roamdial https://roamdial.com/mcp
Cursor / VS Code / Windsurf (mcp.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"roamdial": {
"url": "https://roamdial.com/mcp"
}
}
}
OpenAI Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)
[mcp_servers.roamdial]
url = "https://roamdial.com/mcp"
ChatGPT / Claude.ai Web Connectors
Add https://roamdial.com/mcp under Settings → Connectors (no authentication required).
Option 2: Local stdio Bridge (claude_desktop_config.json)
For MCP clients that only support local stdio processes (requires Node.js >= 18):
{
"mcpServers": {
"roamdial": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "github:ddter/roamdial-mcp"]
}
}
}
Available MCP Tools (4 Tools)
All tools are read-only, require no authentication, and return both human-readable Markdown (content) and machine-typed JSON (structuredContent + outputSchema), including direct one-click listening URLs (listenUrl and 3D globe mapUrl).
1. search_stations
Search live radio stations across 35,000+ verified streams by keyword, country, city, genre, or language.
- Parameters:
query(string, optional): Station name, callsign, frequency, city, or keyword (e.g."BBC","Jazz","Tokyo","KEXP").country(string, optional): ISO-2 country code, country slug, or country name (e.g."JP","united-kingdom","Brazil").city(string, optional): City name filter (e.g."Paris","New York","Seoul").genre(string, optional): Genre slug or keyword (e.g."jazz","classical","news","electronic","rock","ambient").language(string, optional): Broadcast language filter (e.g."English","Japanese","French").limit(integer, optional, 1–20, default 10): Maximum stations to return.
2. spin_globe
Spin the 3D globe and land on a random live radio station, optionally constrained by country, genre, or mood/time-of-day, and probe its live ICY track title.
- Parameters:
country(string, optional): ISO-2 code, slug, or country name.genre(string, optional): Genre slug or keyword.mood(enum, optional):"late_night"— stations where local time at the broadcast city is currently 22:00–04:00"morning"— stations where local time at the broadcast city is currently 06:00–10:00"focus"— instrumental / ambient / classical / jazz / lo-fi stations"upbeat"— pop / rock / dance / electronic / latin / hip-hop stations"relax"— chill / easy listening / ambient / acoustic / smooth jazz stations
3. get_station
Get the full profile of a station by its 12-hex ID or slug-id, including broadcast location, local time, stream codec/bitrate, Wikipedia background, RoamDial listener stats, live ICY track metadata, and similar stations.
- Parameters:
stationId(string, required): 12-character hex ID (e.g."961bf53d0601") or station slug ("bbc-radio-3-961bf53d0601").
4. get_now_playing
Query the live ICY StreamTitle metadata currently broadcasting on a station (with explicit observedAt timestamp and availability reason).
- Parameters:
stationId(string, required): 12-character hex ID orslug-id.
Example Prompts to Try
- "Find me a late-night jazz radio station broadcasting live right now where it's past midnight local time, and tell me what song is playing."
- "Search for live radio stations in Tokyo or Kyoto and give me direct links to listen."
- "Spin the globe to a random morning radio show somewhere in the world."
- "What is currently playing on KEXP or BBC Radio 3?"
Additional AI & Discovery Endpoints
- 3D World Radio Map: https://roamdial.com
- RFC 9727 API Catalog: https://roamdial.com/.well-known/api-catalog
- OpenAPI 3.1 Specification (for Custom GPT Actions): https://roamdial.com/openapi.json
- LLMs Summary (
llms.txt): https://roamdial.com/llms.txt - LLMs Full Curated Catalog (
llms-full.txt): https://roamdial.com/llms-full.txt
License
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