On air · NOORwave for desktop

Music videos, back on TV.

Point it at your library and it plays music videos one after another, like a channel nobody has to program. Start with one artist and see where you end up.

Free · Windows, macOS and Linux

CH 01 Jungle & Drum and BassCH 02 Trip-Hop & DowntempoCH 03 Reggae & DancehallCH 04 Funk & DiscoCH 05 Golden-Era Rap & R&BCH 06 Alternative Hip HopCH 07 Underground TechnoCH 08 Soul & FunkCH 09 Modern Rock

No search bar. Just press play.

Start with one artist. End up three scenes away.

Your songs, with the videos they came with.

The film

Sixty seconds of NOORwave.

Now playing

One channel, steered by you.

Each video is picked from the one before it. Nudge it closer to home or further out while it plays. Have a go below; it keeps running if you leave it alone.

CH 01 · Live 00:41:37
Michael Snackson

Chiller1983

Why this · You started the channel here

Steer the channel

FamiliarUncharted

Up next

    Artists shown are made up for this demo.

    The Atlas

    Every artist has a place on the map.

    Artists who share videos, stages and sessions sit close together, and every cluster is a scene with its own channel.

    Loading the map

    Arrow keys move the map, plus and minus zoom, Tab and Enter step through featured artists, J takes a journey, Escape clears.

    Artists shown are made up for this demo.

    TV guide

    Flick through the channels.

    Every scene gets its own channel, and the guide shows what's on now and next.

    Live

    Loading the guide

    Up and down arrows change channel, left and right move through the programmes, Enter picks one, and number keys jump to a channel.

    Artists shown are made up for this demo.

    Inside the app

    Straight from the desktop app.

    Loading

    A working copy with made-up artists and covers. Type anything into the search.

    NOORwave desktop app showing the Atlas: music video artists drawn as clusters of coloured stars, each cluster a scene with its own channel number
    The Atlas. Your videos grouped into scenes, and every scene gets its own channel.
    NOORwave desktop app showing the Genre Galaxy map: 14 genre families with their genres clustered around them
    Genre Galaxy. Your library as a map: 199 genres in 14 families.
    NOORwave Library analytics: the listening pulse, one ridge per day across 24 hours, with peak hour, rhythm, night and morning figures
    Listening pulse. When you actually listen, day by day.
    NOORwave Logbook showing the catalog: counts of videos, hours, songs, scenes, concerts and artists, with a breakdown by kind of cut
    The catalog. Every video it finds, sorted into songs, scenes and concerts.
    The line-up

    What's in the free app.

    CH 01

    Endless stations

    Start from one artist or genre and the videos keep coming, each one picked from the last.

    CH 02

    Genre Galaxy

    Every scene on one map. Fly from Trip-Hop to Dancehall and see how they connect.

    CH 03

    Video walls

    A grid of music videos for the second screen, the projector or the TV across the room.

    CH 04

    Related artists

    Follow the neighbours of any artist into music you haven't heard yet.

    CH 05

    Gapless, bit-perfect

    Gapless playback for your local files, with WASAPI exclusive mode on Windows.

    CH 06

    Automix

    DJ-style transitions between tracks, so the room never goes quiet.

    CH 07

    Phone remote

    Skip, queue and steer from your phone without leaving the sofa or the dance floor.

    CH 08

    Local first

    Your library lives on your machine in a fast local catalogue, with listening stats only you can see.

    Made for the room

    Put it on the TV and let it run.

    Saturday · 23:40

    The party

    Video wall on the TV, automix on, guests steering from their phones.

    Sunday · 10:15

    The living room

    A slow soul and funk channel running in the background while the coffee brews.

    Tuesday · 01:30

    The deep dive

    Headphones on, Genre Galaxy open, three scenes further than you planned.

    Coming up next

    What we're building.

    Music videos are still the best way to get into an artist, but these days they're stuck behind a search bar. noorwave.app will be music TV in the browser: pick a starting point, and it keeps finding the next good one.

    1. Now

      NOORwave for desktop

      Free. Your library, video stations, Genre Galaxy and automix on Windows, macOS and Linux.

    2. Later

      Party mode and shared channels

      Hand the room a channel, share a seed with friends, save any run as a playlist.

    3. Later

      Live sessions

      Partner performances and artist-approved videos inside the same channels.

    Tune in

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    Free for personal use. Pick your system.