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Programming at work will not be same without SC. 8 hours per day of productivity boost.
by myth_drannon 9y ago
Programming at work will not be same without SC. 8 hours per day of productivity boost.
- blawson 9y agoDI (digitally imported) does a pretty good job of filling my work-electronic-music fix.
- chrisper 9y agoMhh it appears to need Adobe Flash though!
- daxelrod 9y agoThey used to provide standard MP3 streams. Not sure if they still do.
- edp 9y agoThey still do, but you need to be a subscriber.
- j_s 9y agohttps://tukaani.org/difmplay/ https://tukaani.org/difmplay/ a shell script to ease playing music from Digitally Imported (DI.FM), SKY.FM, and JAZZRADIO.com Internet radio stations
- pmh 9y agohttp://somafm.com/ http://somafm.com/ is another option
- saganus 9y agoDAng... it seems like a nice service but it says "Flash Unavailable". I thought everyone was moving to Flash alternatives nowadays?
- myth_drannon 9y agoyou can't replay mixes you like.
- orthecreedence 9y agoAlso check out Soma FM if you haven't already!
- marpstar 9y agoSomaFM is great. Been listening for over 10 years now. Groove Salad is my personal favorite "channel", but I really like Christmas Lounge during the holiday season.
- stevewillows 9y agoIf you're into lounge, exotica, and related genres, you might enjoy http://luxuriamusic.com http://luxuriamusic.com. Its a online radio station with in-studio DJs and everything.
- discombobulate 9y agoSpotify? Edit: Tons of playlists. No vocals.
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- thirtydev01 9y agoIf you've got Spotify try JQBX: https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm basically a tt.fm clone. Great for passive listening.
- virgil_disgr4ce 9y agoI'm curious—is the music you were listening to on SC not available on Spotify, or not in the same amounts? Obviously there is a lot of new, original stuff on SC that's often not 'officially' released or distributed. But it would seem that, nonetheless, that's still not enough of a draw to build (enough of) a subscription service around it?
- devmunchies 9y agoI think I could find stuff on Spotify, but I have a feed on SC and the handful of artists (mostly independent) post stuff daily. On Spotify you listen to songs from "official" albums. Its a completely different feel IMO. And no, for me a lot of the stuff I listen to is not on Spotify.
- virgil_disgr4ce 9y agoRight. Super interesting. This lends anecdotal creedence to my post on another comment: "I only listen to music that was made today" could be an amazing guiding principal for SoundCloud that differentiates it from Spotify et al.
- derencius 9y agoI agree. my collection of liked mixes on soundcloud is the perfect soundtrack for getting work done. I prefer to listen a song I like, specially electronic, in a dj mix than in a playlist.
- myth_drannon 9y agoDI.fm - was my favorite for many years. But it's Flash only that crashes often and extremely annoying ads. Spotify - ads and the discovery is broken. I usually listen to mixes and Spotify is more for albums/artists.
- acchow 9y agoDI.fm has an iPhone app. As for ads, can't you pay for DI?
- starsinspace 9y agoWell, you could subscribe to their service. As a premium member you get stream links for plain high-bitrate MP3/AAC streams - no Flash, no DRM, not even a webbrowser required.
- thinbeige 9y agoDisagree. Discovery and 'play related' are totally broken on Soundcloud compared to Spotify. On SC, you can follow hundreds of users and get inspiration from them but for me this never worked or matched my taste in a consistent manner. So either you listen always to the same tracks the eight hours or listen to some unrelated tracks or must fiddle around with SC's also broken UI.
- paganel 9y agoDepending on your music preferences YT does a pretty good job at it, there are many more gems hidden on YT compared to all the other music services combined.