Automobility: Autoradio

A soundtrack for the road — and everywhere you stop.

Put on a favourite station, bring your own music for the journey, or set up a speaker where friends gather. Autoradio brings music to Automobility cars, portable Party Speakers and modular soundbars, with personal listening controls that let everyone choose what they hear.

The 1.1.0 release adds shared listening groups and custom-music cassettes. It is available for Minecraft 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3 on Fabric. The five built-in stations and all 55 tracks are still here.

Find your soundtrack

• Pick a station. Enjoy the built-in music, search live internet radio by name, country, genre or language, or enter a public MP3, Ogg or supported AAC/AAC+ stream link.
• Bring your own collection. Import OGG, MP3 or WAV files with F9. Organise them into playlists, browse without interrupting playback, and turn imported music into labelled, coloured cassettes.
• Listen together. Use shared listening groups with owner and DJ controls, and queues for placed speakers and soundbars. Song requests stay under the owner’s control.
• Build a listening space. Link up to eight Party Speakers or make a straight soundbar of up to sixteen segments. Linked devices share playback and group volume.
• Keep your own mix. Set personal volume, lower nearby radios, mute a device for yourself or prefer the car radio while riding. Personal choices do not change everyone else’s settings.

Your first listen

Install Autoradio with Automobility: Unofficial Port, get in a car and open the F7 radio wheel. F12 opens device and shared-listening controls; F9 is the place to start with your own music.

For a placed Party Speaker, sneak-right-click with empty hands to open its settings. Name it, choose who may control it, and set its audible range before inviting friends over.

Better together

Autoradio requires Automobility. Pumps & Pistons and Powerworks are optional companions for a world with working fuel stations, workshops and electric vehicles; Autoradio does not require them.

For shared listening and cassettes in multiplayer, use the same Autoradio version on the server and clients. Listening permission and permission to control a device remain separate.

Install and update

Choose the full Autoradio JAR for your exact Minecraft version, with Fabric Loader, Fabric API, Java 25 or newer and the matching Automobility 1.3.0 build. The built-in Stations pack and decoder libraries are included. Do not install a second Stations JAR or a separate codec executable.

Update the server and clients together. Back up the complete world and config/automobility-autoradio, including Custom music, and keep your saved preferences and permissions. Mixed old/new installations are not advertised as supported. To roll back, restore the complete matching backup.

Online listening, permissions and playback details

Internet radio and music supplied by other players have separate listening choices. Radio Browser catalogue access is also separate: searches and filters are sent to Radio Browser only after permission. Online listening permission is remembered for the current server address in your game profile.

Each listener connects directly to the broadcast host, which can see that listener’s public IP address. The Minecraft server does not relay or record internet streams. Station availability and content are controlled by third parties, and stations may contain mature content. No internet stations are preset.

Live radio plays the current broadcast. It uses Stop rather than a recorded pause, has no seeking or skipping, and listeners are not sample-synchronised. Supported AAC paths are LC and implicit HE-AAC/AAC+ ADTS mono/stereo; HLS, MP4/M4A, LATM and xHE-AAC are not included.

Shared Custom music requires each listener’s separate permission. Transfers are bounded and verified; local file paths are not shared. Speaker queues are session-based rather than persistent playlists across server restarts, and chunks are not force-loaded. Optional music levelling is off by default and does not rewrite imported files.

Help and credits

Found a problem? Please include your Minecraft and mod versions, the relevant log, and whether it happened with built-in music, Custom music or a live stream.

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Autoradio is an independent addon, not an official FoundationGames release.

Licensing and attribution

Install the matching Automobility: Autoradio full JAR on each client. The same JAR may be installed on a server for authoritative shared emitters and Custom-track relay. Its built-in music remains inside a client-only built-in Stations JAR nested in the public archive, so dedicated servers do not initialize or decode the station pack.

The nested pack remains a mixed-rights collection rather than being covered by Autoradio's code license. Its code and original artwork, Rosenvik recordings, the directly permitted Argules and Rowen Rook recordings, and CC0 tracks retain their respective terms. The nested JAR includes the content license, public credits and rights ledger. The AAC decoder retains its own JCodec/JAAD license notices; it is not relicensed as the mod's MIT code.