Native macOS · Xtra channels · Free

Small Radio.
Big Sound Waves.

StarPlayrX is back on the Mac! It's a true native Mac app, not a Mac Catalyst port, and it now plays the new SiriusXM Xtra channels too. Click the 📻 in your menu bar, pick a channel, and the music starts flowing, with the artist, song and album art right in front of you. Every control is built for VoiceOver, so everyone can tune in.

Download for Mac Release notes

Version 1.1.7 · macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple silicon & Intel · Signed & notarized

StarPlayrX for Mac menu bar window showing now playing, the color equalizer, channel search and the channel list

New in 1.1.5. Tear it off. Roll it up.

Drag the player off the menu bar and park it anywhere as its own window. Double-click the header to roll it up like a window shade, leaving just what's playing and a lava-lamp equalizer that moves with the music. Every move is animated, and on macOS 26 it's all Liquid Glass.

StarPlayrX torn off the menu bar as a floating window — Tear-off window

StarPlayrX rolled up like a window shade, showing what's playing and the equalizer — Window shade: now playing + EQ

The first SiriusXM player with Xtra on the Mac.

A native Mac app that plays Xtra channels right next to every live channel. The song you see in the list is the song you hear, with full channel art and album art that stays put for the whole song. It even opens right back to the last channel you played.

🌈 A real equalizer, not a fake animation
📜 Scriptable with AppleScript
♿️ VoiceOver ready, free and open source

New in 1.1.8. Lava-lamp bubbles.

Soft bubbles drift up inside the equalizer bars, faster when the music gets louder, swelling and shrinking like wax in a lava lamp. The bars are worked out from the audio before it plays, so they stay in step with every word and beat, with no recording permission needed, on macOS 13 Ventura and later.

StarPlayrX rolled up with Bubbles in the equalizer bars — 🫧 Bubbles👆 Click the bars → Soft Bubbles

StarPlayrX rolled up with Soft Bubbles in the equalizer bars — ☁️ Soft Bubbles (default)👆 Click the bars → No Bubbles

StarPlayrX rolled up with no bubbles in the equalizer bars — ▮ No Bubbles👆 Click the bars → Bubbles

How it works: click the bars.

Each single click on the equalizer moves to the next mode, and a little speech bubble pops up right where you clicked to name it. StarPlayrX remembers your choice. Double-click still rolls the window up.

Small app. Big sound.

✂️

Tear-off window

Drag the player off the menu bar and park it anywhere on your screen.

🎬

Window shade

Double-click the header to roll it up to just what's playing and the EQ.

🌈

Lava-lamp equalizer

60 fps bars from the decoded audio, with drifting colors, a beat-pulsing glow and lava-lamp bubbles.

🧊

Liquid Glass

Super smooth animations and the native Liquid Glass look on macOS 26 and later.

📜

AppleScript

Play channels, read what's playing, tear off, park and shade the window from scripts.

♿️

VoiceOver first

Every control is labeled for VoiceOver, so everyone can find and play channels.

Open source. Build it yourself.

git clone https://github.com/AgentiLoop/StarPlayrX
cd StarPlayrX/StarPlayrXMac
open StarPlayrXMac.xcodeproj   # select StarPlayrXMac, press ⌘R

Requires a valid SiriusXM subscription. StarPlayrX is not affiliated with SiriusXM.

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