Lounge radio stations

Here are 40 working lounge stations, gathered from 12 countries. The busiest are SomaFM Groove Salad (128k MP3), SomaFM Secret Agent (128k MP3), Спокойное радио and Café del Mar. Every one of them was tested, so you will not hit a dead stream.

Most lounge stations come from The United States Of America (5), Germany (5), The Russian Federation (2), Spain (2), Austria (2) and Italy (2). They broadcast mainly in english, german and russian. Stations tagged lounge often carry related tags too — most commonly chillout, ambient, downtempo and jazz — so the same station may appear on several genre pages.

18 of these stations stream at 192 kbps or better, the highest being Спокойное радио at 320 kbps, which is worth choosing if you are listening on speakers rather than a phone. By format the mix is MP3 (35), AAC (4) and AAC+ (1).

Genre tags only tell you so much: two lounge stations from different countries can share a label and almost nothing else. That is worth using rather than working around.

Nothing is needed beyond the browser — no app, no account, no payment. Press play on any lounge station and it starts. The heart icon saves a station to your favourites, kept in your own browser and shown at the top of every page here. For stations that broadcast it, the track currently playing appears in the player at the bottom of the screen.