StarPlayr
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On time, even on live radio
Live radio never says where a song is, so StarPlayrX asks Shazam. DJ chatter and cross-fades can't throw it off.
Native macOS · Xtra channels · Free
Small Radio.
Big Sound Waves.
StarPlayrX is back on the Mac, native and not a Catalyst port. Click the 📻 in your menu bar, pick from 500+ live channels or 1,000+ Xtra channels, and the music starts in under a second with the artist, song and album art right there. Sing along with time-synced lyrics, tear it off, roll it up, script it, or tune in with VoiceOver.
Version 1.1.31 · macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple silicon & Intel · Signed & notarized
New. StarPlayrX on iPhone.
The same player, built for iPhone and iPad from the same code as the Mac app: 500+ live and 1,000+ Xtra channels, album art, the lava-lamp equalizer, time-synced lyrics, stars, category chips, AirPlay, and now playing on the lock screen. Dark mode, Liquid Glass, and made for iPhone Duo. Join the beta on TestFlight.
iOS 17 or later · iPhone & iPad · Free TestFlight beta · SiriusXM subscription required
Made for iPhone Duo.
Closed, it's a phone with the equalizer running down the side. Open it and the player and the channel list sit side by side, or the lyrics take the whole left page. Stand it up like a laptop and now playing takes the top half, the channels the bottom, so nothing straddles the fold.
New. Album art, full size.
Click the album art and it fills the whole player, edge to edge, so you can actually see the cover. It changes by itself when the next song starts, so you can leave it up like a little jukebox on your desktop. Click it again to go back to your channels.
Lyrics. Sing along with StarPlayrX.
Real-time lyrics now scroll along with live and Xtra channels. Click the song name and sing along: the line being sung lights up, and the words keep pace with the music. Pull the player off the menu bar and it becomes a mini karaoke machine on your desktop, with the beat-driven equalizer pulsing underneath.
Back to its roots. The original StarPlayr by NiceMac LLC, on Mac, Windows, Windows Mobile and iPhone, showed lyrics for the song that was playing. Now, for the first time since 2009, lyrics are back in StarPlayrX in a big way.
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A mini karaoke machine
Keep the lyrics under the menu bar, or drag the player out as its own window. Hide it and they still keep up.
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One click to fix
If a line is ever off, click the one being sung. The rest of the song follows, and live channels remember it.
⏪ Since 2009Blast from the past returns to Mac
uSirius StarPlayr for the iPhone 1G already featured lyrics and album art back in 2009. Implemented by Todd Bruss.
New. 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.
First ever on StarPlayrX Xtra music channels.
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.
- 🌈 A real equalizer, not a fake animation
- 📜 Scriptable with AppleScript
- ♿️ VoiceOver ready, free and open source
New. 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. Works on macOS 13 Ventura and later.
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.
Favorites. Star your channels.
Every channel has a star. Click it and the channel is one of your favorites; click it again and it's gone. Then one click on the All Stars button at the top right shows just your favorites, so the channels you love are never more than a click away.
1. Star a channel
Click the star at the end of any channel row, or the star beside the play button for the channel that's playing. Lit means it's a favorite; click again to remove it.
🔍2. Show only your stars
Click the All Stars button at the top right of the player. The list now shows just your favorites. Click it again to see every channel.
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3. Search your stars
With All Stars on, type in the search field to find a favorite by channel number, name, artist or song.
New. All-new Modern API.
StarPlayrX runs entirely on the Modern API. The old player, which ran a tiny web server inside the app to rewrite every playlist and key, is gone, along with about 3,500 lines of legacy code. One sign-in, one channel list for live and Xtra, and one way to play. Less code means fewer things to break, a lighter app, and room for new features like time-synced lyrics.
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Better sound quality
Live audio reaches the player straight from the signed stream, not through a local proxy: what you hear is what the source sends. Still tunes in under a second.
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Less troubleshooting
No local port to listen on, no server to restart, no second sign-in running in the background. Fewer moving parts means fewer things that can go wrong.
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US and Canada
Both countries use the same path. Tick Canada on the sign-in screen and StarPlayrX speaks the Canadian locale; which channels you get is decided by your account.
Power users. Command-line settings.
Two settings have no switch in the app. Set them in Terminal with defaults; the app picks them up the next time it uses them, no restart needed.
# Also offer pre-releases when checking for updates (default NO)
defaults write com.starplayrx.mac updatePrereleases -bool YES
# Seconds added to a live song's position before lyrics are matched (default 0.5).
# Try 0, -1 or -3 if lines run ahead of the singing.
defaults write com.starplayrx.mac lyricsLiveLead -float -1
# Back to the default
defaults delete com.starplayrx.mac lyricsLiveLeadA song whose line you clicked to sync keeps its own timing.
Small app. Big sound.
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Tear-off window
Drag the player off the menu bar and park it anywhere on your screen.
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Window shade
Double-click the header to roll it up to just what's playing and the EQ.
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Lava-lamp equalizer
60 fps bars from the decoded audio, with drifting colors, a beat-pulsing glow and lava-lamp bubbles.
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Liquid Glass
Super smooth animations and the native Liquid Glass look on macOS 26 and later.
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AppleScript
Play channels, read what's playing, tear off, park and shade the window from scripts.
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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 ⌘RRequires a valid SiriusXM subscription. StarPlayrX is not affiliated with SiriusXM.
Releases. Always the latest.
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