Start your own radio station
Skydex Radio started as a handful of instrumental stations we put together so the world would have something to fly to. Lo-fi, synthwave, ambient. People listened, and then people asked the obvious question: can I put mine on there?
Yes. The studio is open.
What you get
Three stations per account. Each one has a title, a description, a cover image, and a genre from the shelf everyone browses by — lo-fi, synthwave, ambient, chillhop, cinematic, jazz, electronic, or just other.
Up to 30 tracks per station, 300 MB across everything you own. Upload, rename, reorder by dragging, delete. When it looks right, hit publish and it goes on air: in the radio player in the flight HUD, on the station shelf at radio.skydex.online, and in the per-station chat where listeners talk with little country flags next to their names.
Every station card and station page carries "by @your-name", linking back to your profile. It is your station, not an anonymous playlist.
The studio is one place
The studio lives at radio.skydex.online/studio. There is a My radio station entry in your profile menu in-game that opens it in a new tab — your session comes with you, no second login.
There was briefly an in-game version too. We deleted it. Two front ends for the same thing means two places for a bug to live and two places to forget to update, and the studio is not something you need mid-flight.
What the uploader checks
Every track goes through the same gates before it is stored, so a broken file fails at upload rather than as silence on air at three in the morning:
- Format — MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AAC or MP4 audio.
- Size — up to 20 MB per track, which covers an MP3 of roughly 10–15 minutes at normal bitrates.
- Length — between 20 seconds and 15 minutes. Zero-length or unreadable files are rejected outright.
- Quotas — 30 tracks per station, 3 stations and 300 MB per account.
Accounts younger than three days publish into a review queue instead of straight to air. Not a judgement on anyone in particular; it is just the cheapest thing that stops a fresh throwaway account from using us as free hosting.
Moderation, briefly
There is a report button on every station. One report flags a station — it stays on air, but a moderator sees it. Three reports take it off air until someone actually looks. Both numbers are deliberately low, because an instrumental radio station is not a thing that gets reported by accident.
One rule, and please take it seriously
Upload only music you have the right to distribute. Your own work, or something with a licence that permits it. This is not boilerplate — a copyright complaint lands on us, and the fastest way to lose community radio for everyone is for it to become a place where commercial tracks get re-hosted.
If you are making tracks specifically for this, our own stations were built with generative tools and the prompt recipes are in the repo. Fifteen minutes of ambient is genuinely achievable in an evening.
Go make something. radio.skydex.online/studio