📻 Peabody Radio

Every tune on Peabody Radio is brand new. Peabody’s band makes it up right here, on this device, the moment you tap: a bass line, some chords, a beat and a tune, in the style of the station you picked. It plays twice, then the band makes up another. No two are the same, and each one gets a silly name, so you can tell your friends about Waffle Moose Elevator No. 214.

Old Hits is different: real songs from 1900 to 1930, like Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Songs that old belong to everyone now, so Peabody’s band can play them for free. Each one comes round as a different band: a swing band, beep boops, elevator music, a marching band or a music box.

The radio keeps playing while you read, draw, cook or build. The player sits in the corner of every page: pause it, skip to a new tune, or turn it off. When you start a game, the game’s own music takes over, and the music button (the note) turns just the music off and leaves the game’s noises on.

For grown-ups: there are no words in any of these tunes, no ads, and nothing to sign up for. Nothing plays until a child taps, and Sleepy Time goes quiet by itself after twenty minutes. Because the music is made on the device, nothing is downloaded and nothing about your child is sent anywhere. More stations are coming, including old recordings of jazz and classical music that now belong to everyone. More for grown-ups.