Radio

The Radio view manages internet radio stations on your Navidrome server. Stations are HTTP streams (Icecast/Shoutcast) that play directly — not through the queue.

For navigation, search, and multi-select, see Library Basics. Radio has no expansion, no ratings, and no Add-to-Queue / Add-to-Playlist actions.

Sort and search

Stations only sort by Name (Page Up toggles direction). Search matches both station name and stream URL.

Adding, editing, and removing stations

All radio CRUD lives in Nokkvi — you don’t need to touch Navidrome’s web UI.

• Add Station button (header, top-right) opens a dialog for name and stream URL.
• Right-click → Edit Station re-opens that dialog pre-populated.
• Right-click → Delete Station removes the station after confirmation.
• Right-click → Copy Stream URL copies the URL to your clipboard.

Behind the scenes, Nokkvi calls Navidrome’s createInternetRadioStation, updateInternetRadioStation, and deleteInternetRadioStation endpoints.

Now playing

When a station is streaming, the metadata strip shows:

• The station name (with a radio-tower icon)
• The current track’s artist and title, parsed from the stream’s ICY metadata in real time
• The stream URL as a fallback if no ICY metadata has been received yet

Most public Icecast/Shoutcast streams advertise ICY metadata; if a station you’ve added shows only the URL with no track info, it likely doesn’t.

While a radio is playing, next / prev (and the player-bar arrows) cycle through your stations in order, wrapping around at the ends — they don’t act on the queue.

Limitations

Note

Radio playback is intentionally separate from the rest of Nokkvi.

• No queue integration — radio streams aren’t queued. Merely navigating to the Queue view leaves the radio playing; playing anything from the queue (or any library view) stops the stream and switches back to queue playback.
• No scrobbling — Nokkvi doesn’t submit Subsonic scrobbles for radio streams, so Navidrome won’t forward them to Last.fm or ListenBrainz.
• No favorites or playlists — you can’t star a station or add it to a playlist.
• No artwork or expansion — radio rows are flat; no cover art, no track listings.
• Session-only playback — the stream stops when you close Nokkvi and doesn’t auto-resume.