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Lo-Fi ATC
- shaunn 4y agoThis reminds me of the chorus of "Rockets on the Battlefield" Kool Keith/Black Elvis [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6EK9ydDUs#t=1m20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6EK9ydDUs#t=1m20s
- ledauphin 4y agothis seems especially great with KBOS for some reason. kudos to the creator. https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=kbos https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=kbos
- 3guk 4y agoThis is fantastic- somehow works so perfectly as background noise for working in my home office.
- phazy 4y agoGreat job! I love this idea. In fact, I love it so much that I could not resist trying to implement it with two running mpv instances: https://github.com/phazus/lofiatc.sh https://github.com/phazus/lofiatc.sh
- Chilko 4y agoThis is surprisingly soothing, great concept for background white noise!
- unethical_ban 4y agoSuggestion: volume mixer for the two tracks. That said, awesome mashup. Similar to myNoise B29 noise generator with unintelligible comms.
- xenolithis 4y ago+1 Great work, love this!
- seabass-labrax 4y agoThere is a volume mixer; see the button 'Settings' in the top-right corner.
- xenolithis 4y agoAh I see, it doesn't load on mobile view.
- AdamJacobMuller 4y agoI like this to an unreasonable degree. Really nicely done.
- evilstark 4y agoGuessing you're a pilot? This is my new go-to background noise. :)
- blerb795 4y agoI'm not the creator of this site, but the creator (who showed me this a few months ago) is indeed a pilot!
- rx_tx 4y agoThis reminds me of SomaFM's 1033 which plays music overlaid with SF public safety radio traffic. [1]: https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033 https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033
- efm 4y agoIt reminds me more of SomaFM's Mission Control[1], which plays music overlaid with NASA mission audio. [1] https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/ https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
- noncovalence 4y agoFor anyone who enjoyed that one, I can also recommend Public Service Broadcasting's The Race for Space [1] which does something similar. [1] https://publicservicebroadcasting.bandcamp.com/album/the-race-for-space https://publicservicebroadcasting.bandcamp.com/album/the-rac...
- j45 4y agoOh, Soma FM..
- bayindirh 4y agoThere's also "You're listening to": http://youarelistening.to/ http://youarelistening.to/
- sigmar 4y agoThis is great. Wish it had more international airports (could only find US and canada) edit: I see you can request them since they are added manually
- srboyd 4y agoThe UK (maybe even all EU) ATC traffic frequencies arent allowed to be braodcast publically
- rdlw 4y agoI got Tokyo Approach by default
- FearNotDaniel 4y agoCool, hope the poor site author is not deluged with too many requests from us HN nerds outside the US (I already put in a bid for Zurich and Geneva, if that saves on duplicate requests...) I understand the feeds come from LiveATC, which has a FAQ answer explaining why UK feeds are legally forbidden [0]. Anyone happen to know why there are no German/Austrian airports on LiveATC [1], is it a similar legal issue? [0] https://www.liveatc.net/faq/ https://www.liveatc.net/faq/ [1] https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=international-eu https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=international-eu
- AdamN 4y agoIt's also protected in Germany by Datenschutz I believe.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoFeeds are from liveatc.net but looks like only some are available. https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=international-eu https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=international-eu
- raydiatian 4y agoAnd without an inkling of feeling hyperbolic, I said “I can’t imagine anyone disliking this.”
- reidjs 4y agoIf you like this you might like the song Contact by daft punk https://open.spotify.com/track/2KHRENHQzTIQ001nlP9Gdc https://open.spotify.com/track/2KHRENHQzTIQ001nlP9Gdc
- pjerem 4y agoAh ! This album ! I was a huge fan of Daft Punk and I bought that disc day one. Well, I totally hated it when I first listened to it. It was probably too different from their previous work. Still, I listened it again, not that terrible. Again, actually pretty cool. Again, incredible. And after multiple listenings, I finally accepted that, at least to me, it was just a masterpiece and I totally missed it. And now, already a decade later, I have a strong feeling of nostalgia every time I stumble upon it and it’s one of my favorite music albums ever. Still, I cannot describe why I love it so much. It just talks to me. I wouldn’t even recommend it nowadays because if you are like me, you’ll not appreciate it by listening to it once on Spotify. Or maybe I’m wrong, it’s just awesome and I was the one having a block. In this case, I’d recommend you to avoid listening to this track or this track but go for the full album because it was totally made like a full art piece. And it’s actually a nice album to listen in background. [/fanboy]
- samuba 4y agoThis is exactly how this album unfolded for me too
- disillusioned 4y agoIt's absolutely a masterpiece. There's no small amount of irony that THIS is the album that shows them to be Human After All, considering just how much live-action instrumentation is on this album. It demonstrated this flexibility and scope that their typical pure genius sampling hadn't necessarily ascended to. My favorite track is almost certainly Moroder. What a thing to gift us: a brief autobiography/biopic from the grandfather of electronic music himself, explaining how he came to create the ancestor sounds of what we're listening to... and then on top of which some of the goddamn best drums (and real drums, to boot) and just an absolute banger. Couple that with Nile Rogers appearing multiple times with some of the best guitar licks... the genius of Contact, building this narrative of an alien from Apollo 17 recordings... and the beautifully textured... almost "chunky" Motherboard. Man, this album is great. I really love Daft Punk.
- ace2358 4y agoBrilliant. I’m someone who has lofi playing most of the day at work or at home in the calmer times. I use an old JBL Bluetooth speaker that i found on the side of the road. Must be 10 years old. It distorts a bit at 75% volume which I like. The whole thing sounds lofi and beaten up. I loaded this site and it just naturally fit in. I got Hawaii airport. I just felt like I was in the tower. The music was just how I was playing but now I’ve got beautiful lofi air controller audio. Thank you very much
- jalino23 4y agobeautifully written as it paints a picture in my mind
- someweirdperson 4y agoThe chilling to lofi and boring radio messages may suddenly be interruped by "mayday, mayday, mayday, ...". Be prepared.
- netsharc 4y agoThe music currently playing (Kurt Stewart x Lomme – Window Seat) takes me back to this video https://youtu.be/6KRZEZTTcWk?t=555 https://youtu.be/6KRZEZTTcWk?t=555 , from the cockpit of a SWISS flight (Shanghai to Zürich) flying over Kazahkstan ("Middle East" seems to be a mistranslation)
- jakzurr 4y agoThat entire video is wonderful. The segment on alternate routes (avoiding 5000m mountains, and staying below 3000m?) in case of decompression was quite interesting. Of course, in darkness and bad weather, it sounds terrifying.
- irsagent 4y agoThis is great. As someone who enjoys the aviation industry and needs something to listen to while I work, its nice to have two things to be used at the same time.
- lucb1e 4y ago> Audio streams may not be used in any third-party products. Says the source that seems to be https://www.liveatc.net https://www.liveatc.net
- HomeDeLaPot 4y agoLooks like you're right, this is breaking their TOS: >4) Since there are only limited numbers of connections available for streams, and because the site is funded through advertising and donations, you agree to consult LiveATC.net prior to linking directly to any of the audio streams. When you do link you agree to give credit to LiveATC.net with a prominent link to www.liveatc.net. Not nice.
- humanizersequel 4y ago>you agree to consult LiveATC.net prior to linking directly to any of the audio streams Why jump to that conclusion? She could have consulted with them while building this.
- brewdad 4y agoI would hope crediting and/or linking LiveATC would be a part of such an agreement. More likely, they are breaking TOS.
- humanizersequel 4y agoThere is a link to LiveATC. It isn't clearly labeled, but that isn't required in the TOS and since this site has been up since at least November of 2021, I expect they're fine with it.
- siva7 4y agoIt could be but without explicit credits one shouldn't wonder when others do question this assumption.
- karpour 4y ago
- ehPReth 4y agolooks like there's no ATC coverage in my area by anyone... what would be the best (and cheapest lol) way to broadcast my local airport?
- toomuchtodo 4y agohttps://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/air-traffic-control/ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/air-traffic-control/ http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/stream-aircraft-am-atc-to-broadcastify-using-rtl-sdr.317528/ http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/stream-aircraft-am-... If you want to stream to liveatc, they’ll work with you to establish a receiver that ships packets to their reflector. Very low bandwidth, just have to have a spot to host the RF gear.
- ehPReth 4y agooh awesome, thank you! I shall have a look into this :) edit: how important would antenna placement be? I assume it's not just like receiving an commericial FM music station signal in a building eh? I could mount it on the roof; but setting up a big mast would be an issue landlord wise! "As the crow flies" I'm fairly close to the airport
- wlonkly 4y agoLine of sight, so you'll probably pick up the planes fine but not the controllers.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoShould be fine to do an interior antenna at the distances you’re talking. Enjoy!
- ehPReth 4y agoSweet! Thanks so much :)
- sowbug 4y agoHalf the transmissions come from airplanes, rather than the tower, so signal distance and strength will vary.
- sen 4y agoThis is awesome. How would something like this she made? I had a similar idea (but mixing entirely different types of streams) and did a whole bunch of searching and couldn’t find a way to mix two external streams. Do you record/buffer the streams and write local chunks to stream from? Or is it more like “bounce this stream but mix some local audio files over it”?
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoI guess you could always play two streams at once and let the users audio device sort it out.
- paxys 4y agoThat's exactly what is happening here. There are two audio streams played by your browser, one being an mp3 file on the server (the lofi track) and the other coming from liveatc.net.
- colechristensen 4y agoYou have to decode both streams into straight samples and add them together, this can be done with a small memory buffer. You could also make a custom audio widget that played two streams at once and the local audio mixer will handle it.
- 19h 4y agoWhat is the license of ATC audio? This could easily be made into an amazing repository for lo-fi music creators.
- imoverclocked 4y agoNo license. It's public domain.
- fsagx 4y agoI listen to local approach and departures when I'm in the car. I can hear ground too if I'm close to the airport. I find it really soothing.
- peterchane 4y agoif you enjoy this you might also enjoy http://listentothe.cloud/ http://listentothe.cloud/
- jschveibinz 4y agoVery nice. Thank you.
- lloydatkinson 4y agoBig fan of lofi. I don't get this, why would you want air traffic chatter at the same time?
- dewey 4y agoSame reason people listen to coffee shop chatter as background noise, or keep the tv running.
- user3939382 4y agoThis concept reminds me of the intro to Sublime - April 29, 1992.
- dewey 4y agoI've been using this now since it was posted but I'm realizing that it often stops the music (Safari), once I visit the tab again it continues playing. Bug? Edit: Now that I switched to the tab I could see for brief second a "Music could not load, try refreshing" message flash. After a brief moment it started playing again.
- paxys 4y agoKinda shitty to not even credit liveatc.net anywhere on the site while directly streaming their feed.
- sundvor 4y agoThe speaker or broadcast symbol just above right of the the airport code in the middle takes the user straight there.
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- siva7 4y agoMaybe you should become an ATC if you're that fascinated from listening to it
- AdamN 4y agoWould be nice mash with the OG lofi: Music for Airports by Brian Eno
- sandos 4y agoThis is interesting, I could hear controller and pilot talking. But they had some sort of stereo-separation! Pilot was to the left and tower to the right. Thats not possible, is it? I assume the audio is mono in real life.
- blackboxlogic 4y agoit might pan the audio side to side each time there is silence just for effect.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoI mean, why can’t the ATC streamer mix the audio sources into stereo?
- joelccr 4y agoLiveATC often mixes multiple feeds for one airport (out of tower, ground, approach etc) into a stereo stream with one feed in each channel so you can listen to more than one frequency at once
- someweirdperson 4y agoAll the x.y multi-speaker configurations are missing a "top" speaker. Why hasn't anyone invented that yet? For the recording, with the ground transmitter stationary, it could be separated by one receiver shilded to look at only the ground transmitter, and a second omni-directional one for anything flying.
- etskinner 4y agoThe human ear doesn't really have the ability to determine the height of a source reliably, only left/right. A better effect might be putting the audio out of phase on left/right, which usually has the effect of making it difficult to hear where the sound is coming from (it kind of makes it sound like it's omnidirectional like you mentioned)
- anecdotal1 4y agothis is so weird but I love it
- iguanayou 4y agoAwesome!