Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887359 - July 2024 (64 comments)
Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441847 - Feb 2022 (34 comments)
Listen to radio stations from around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138529 - Feb 2021 (32 comments)
Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771 - June 2020 (123 comments)
Google Earth for live radios - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427701 - Nov 2018 (98 comments)
Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058 - Dec 2016 (114 comments)
Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160450 - Dec 2016 (4 comments)
Shonan Beach FM, based in Japan. 'Lofi Japanese jazz', I guess? When I lived in a house with a HomePod I had a shortcut hey Siri, Shonan Beach! that was activated most mornings. This was on all day as a low-volume background track. Love it.
https://radio.garden/listen/shonan-beach-fm-78-9/qg9qo6VR
(I was in Australia, timezone-adjacent. YMMV if you're connecting at 03:00 Tokyo time. Also they do a lot of talking on the weekends.)
One unfortunate property of radio.garden is it doesn’t give you the actual stream links (IIRC it proxies the M3Us through its own server), because lock-in I guess? I’d be happy to be proven wrong here, because the site is otherwise excellent.
I came upon a French-language radio station catalogue a while ago, and that did have the original links, but I’ve lost the tab since then :( ETA: It was https://www.programmes-radio.com/en/streaming/, and I was misremembering: they don’t show the original playlist link either, but they do use it in their streaming widget, so it’s a only short trip to the Network tab of the browser’s devtools away.
I don't show the streaming links but it's not for lock-in but because I've never got that request :) You can just look them up using developer tools though (same for radio-garden). Not ideal on mobile I guess.
I haven't look at what radio.garden does but I proxy some http only streams that don't work well when requested from an https audio element, maybe that's what you're referring to.
Like a very common issue is - if you don't have an access control allow headers header for icy-metaint - you can't pull out the embedded Shoutcast metadata client-side. You now have to pull now-playing type data via some other method, like polling the Icecast API - which may not be available. A lot of servers don't send any CORS headers, some only send the allow-origin header.
In theory stream producers can use Ogg to encapsulate the stream and use bitstream chaining to have in-band metadata. That limits the codecs to Vorbis/Opus/FLAC, which are all great codecs - bigger issue tends to be how the browser handles chained bitstreams in audio elements. My understanding is - they just don't handle it at all.
So - if the goal is to play the streams in the browser and ensure you have a consistent experience, it makes sense to proxy them all into some common format like HLS and serve it over HTTPS. You can have timed ID3 metadata, and eliminate CORS and mixed-media issues. This does mess with the stream's ability to accurately measure things like, how many people are listening.
I don't know much about Indian/Tamil music, but it's catchy.
- the wave from Vancouver CA (also Soma FM underground 80s). It's a new wave station that plays some very deep cuts from artists that also had radio play in the 80s. I thought I basically heard all 80s alt rock and new wave songs but this station at least doubled it for me.
- CKIA from Quebec City. It's a very diverse program, sat and sun mornings they have chamber music that is very relaxing.
So I listened to some radio from Iraq since it was next door, and it was a music station, and the music was really good. I couldn't understand the lyrics but it was very enjoyable.
Then I look at the place on Google street view (or satellite view of not available). And try to imagine the life of people there.
Then I go to Wikipedia to read about the place and then this is the end: I spend over or two hours reading randomly about loosely related topics.
Serendipity is a wonderful thing
A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations.
Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more.
I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world.
The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however...
I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.
https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/ (not really radio, but also on my bookmarks)
EDIT: I meant whiping the llamas ass!
Of course the news on any station is going to use more formal language, and the entertainment programming even on the flagship is going to use less formal. Just, the talk station from a flagship broadcaster - like BBC Radio 4 - is going to have the most bang for your buck in language instruction.
Seems obvious, but bears mention. Enjoy!
And we can't talk about music streaming on the Internet without mentioning one of the originals -- https://somafm.com -- still going strong.
I support both of these stations because their "business model" is so refreshing, very much in the spirit of the "Old Internet," which I miss dearly.
On the bad side, this is an app which is very difficult to use with uMatrix because it loads JS from the domain of the selected radio and it must be whitelisted. Ok for sparse areas but apparently big cities return a different radio each time (or I didn't zoom it far enough.) I don't know if this is a solvable problem server side. Probably not because what can they do? Run a headless browser and stream the content, one browser per connection? That would be asking too much. I'll whitelist the stations I like most.
Thanks for site.
Gotta give the creators some credit for their 2-foot high wall ;-)
This has had a chilling effect on other radio streaming platforms, which have all restricted foreign radio stations on their platforms while geolocated inside the UK.
https://www.mishcon.com/news/court-of-appeal-upholds-copyrig...
I'd like to reproduce the concept if anyone has any better insight than what I just gave. I want to make a stand-alone device (I wish they made spherical touch screens) so I can just have a "radio" in a room that allows you to select world streams. (Thinking etch-a-sketch style controls would be adequate — user moves a cursor along latitude, longitude with the knobs — radio stations appear when the cursor is near.)