KAOS-FM started as “prank-call radio in a tab.” The last stretch of work turned it into something closer to a real station: a schedule that means something, live cut-ins when the call night is happening elsewhere, archive blocks that don’t just loop the same three bits, and a broadcast path you can leave running overnight — in the app or in whatever player you already live in.

What’s on the dial

The Eastern Time board is built around the shows people actually stay for:

  • Lunatic Fringe and Longmont Potion Castle — the overnight and early-morning prank-call blocks
  • Phone Losers — classic PLA phone-prank energy
  • The Corndown — CORNDOWN-style underground calls
  • Airhead’s World, Turbo Boost and Daisy’s Dungeon Pranks — afternoon and late-night prank hours
  • Madhouse Radio — long prank-call theater blocks
  • Classic Loveline — late-night talk energy on the board
  • Comedy 104 · Comedy UK — stand-up comedy streams so the dial never goes dead between prank blocks
  • After Hours — the music vault overnight when the affiliates sleep

Home, Schedule, and show pages make the lineup readable: what’s on now, what’s next, and a write-up when you tap in. A listener badge, a sleep timer, and background playback with notification controls make it a station you can leave on, not a naked stream widget.

Prankcast.com live integration

Fixed clocks are great until a creator goes live on an odd night. KAOS now watches Prankcast: when a show is actually on the air there, the dial can cut over, show the host’s name and picture, and ride the call night — then drop back to the regular board when it ends. Not into that one? Skip and jump back to whatever was supposed to be scheduled.

That’s the difference between “we link out to Prankcast” and “KAOS is carrying the show so you don’t miss it because you were staring at the wrong tab.”

More archive shows on the way

Turbo Boost proved the archive path: catalog, cycle without burning the same episode forever, join mid-slot when you tune in late. Science With Sl0th and Airhead’s World have since joined the board. Next we want to widen that shelf further — including KDK Prank Calls and more as we clear rights, catalogs, and schedule space. Same idea: appointment hours that feel like shows, not a random IA dump.

Hear it outside the app

The Google Play app and the web player at kaosfm.pages.dev are still the full KAOS experience (schedule, show pages, Prankcast shows, sleep timer). But the station itself also leaves Dialer's Apps: we encode a live airchain to Icecast so you can open KAOS in VLC, Winamp, foobar2000, a car head unit, or any other player that eats a stream URL.

Grab a playlist and open it in VLC, foobar2000, Winamp, or another player that supports AAC Icecast streams:

Download kaos-fm.m3u Download kaos-fm.pls

Live Icecast mount (same URL inside the playlists):

https://stream.cbradioapp.com/kaos

App for the dial chrome. Icecast for “just play the station.” Same KAOS either way.

Product page: KAOS-FM. Related Lab note: Faking AM & FM in Web Audio.