Turning the Sky Into a Mixtape

Remember making mixtapes? Recording songs off the radio, choosing the order, writing a title on the little paper card. A good mixtape was never just a list of songs. It was a mood, a season, a moment.

I wanted MeteoSound to feel a bit like that. Not an endless feed, but one small tape made for right now — and the weather is the one thing that is always about right now.

How the sky picks the songs

The weather mixtape reads three things: how warm it is, how heavy the air feels, and what the sky is doing. Then it asks you one simple question: how do you want to feel?

• Cold days lean towards jazz and folk — music that feels like a warm room.
• Mild days open up to indie and acoustic.
• Warm days bring funk; hot days drift into reggae and latin rhythms.
• Rain adds lofi and blues. Humid, heavy air slows things down with downtempo and trip-hop.
• After dark, ambient quietly joins the tape.

Real stations, not invented ones

Every tape is filled with real, live radio stations from the community-run Radio Browser directory, matched by their actual genres. Each one is a person or a team somewhere in the world, broadcasting right now.

“A playlist tells you what to hear. A weather mixtape tells you what the day sounds like.”

Like a tape you'd want to keep, you can save it as a playlist with one tap — and come back to your "Frosty Night Tape" or "Soft-air Day Tape" whenever the sky looks the same again.

Try yours

Open MeteoSound, look out of the window, pick a mood and press play. Then tell me: what did your sky sound like today?