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Lofi air traffic control – LAX
- spicysugar1 4y ago[dead]
- dafelst 4y agoWhy is this so strangely relaxing? What an amazing idea.
- capableweb 4y agoMixing high-quality full-spectrum audio with low-quality and small-spectrum voice always sound neat :) The measured and calm voice of ATC and pilots probably just makes it better, it always sound like they have everything 100% under control.
- Waterluvian 4y ago“Contact” on the Random Access Memories album does this well. [1] That entire song makes me picture a white knuckling unscheduled re-entry followed by nail biting waiting, concluded by a successful splash down. [1] https://youtu.be/JI5noh4OyXc https://youtu.be/JI5noh4OyXc
- throwawaaarrgh 4y agoIt's relaxing until they start speaking paragraphs very fast, over and over, then it feels stressful ):
- imp0cat 4y agoTry Narita. https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=RJAA https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=RJAA
- tpmx 4y agoThe HN submission page could play something like this in the background to soothe people while they are preparing their angry submissions. Heh, who am I kidding, HN runs on outrage just like all the other social networks.
- PebblesRox 4y agoNow I'm imagining a writing/journaling app that automatically chooses a playlist based on the emotions or concepts detected in the writing.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- southernplaces7 4y agoLove this
- rochak 4y agoThat’s very nice :)
- hyperific 4y agoAutomated weather service would be cool too
- hyperific 4y agohttps://www.weatherusa.net/radio https://www.weatherusa.net/radio
- galangalalgol 4y agoWeather radio repeat cycle is too short. It becomes noticeable and then irritating and distracting. I keep wanting to try shortwave news in a language I don't know but sounds nice. If it has too many english or Spanish cognates I'll probably get distracted trying to figure out what is said. Something tonal perhaps, Welsh or Chinese.
- ilikepi 4y agoMaybe try the BBC shipping forecast? https://youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM https://youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM I find the use of the Beaufort scale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale) gives it a particularly dry flavor...
- hyperific 4y agoTycho worked weather reports into some of his songs and it added a nice texture but that's a fair point that the repeat cycle is too short for streaming music like this.
- SomeBoolshit 4y agoVery reminiscent of the soma FM station where they have music over an SF police scanner.
- joeysim 4y ago[dead]
- anoncow 4y agoAh it seems it is down.
- cbracketdash 4y ago? it seems to be working for me
- codetrotter 4y agoFor me it played music for two seconds and then said “feed down”
- rejectfinite 4y agomusic works but airport radio is down for me
- amelius 4y agoAdd some midjourney-generated manga drawings.
- handedness 4y agoRecent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914
- 4ndrewl 4y agoThis (well EHAM) is one of my standard daily listens whilst WFH. That and the Flying Fortress over at MyNoise (a service I pay for) https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/propellerNoiseGenerator.php https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/propellerNoiseGenerator.ph...
- ashton314 4y agoMyNoise is the best. Stéphane seems like such a respectful, down-to-earth guy. I don’t pay for many subscriptions—I go out of my way to avoid them—but I put some good money into MyNoise regularly because it’s been such a valuable service. It’s optional—I don’t actually use many of the paid features—but I appreciate it so dang much.
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- lofi8320948 4y agoBoston College's FM station WZBC has a program No Commercial Potential, which plays lots of experimental sounds, some of it sounds like MyNoise Flying Fortress. Everything depends on the DJ and their mood, but some of it has this vibe. https://www.wzbc.org/after-hours-ncp https://www.wzbc.org/after-hours-ncp
- t0mas88 4y agoEHAM tower or the high speed ballet of the radar guys?
- samstave 4y agoHAHA - I came here to say the same (I pay for it as well, and I love the flying fortress with radio chatter... I just spent some time adding layers of sound to the actual ATC chatter, then I add individual layers, like distant thunder, b29, singing bowls and rain etc... https://i.imgur.com/8jJkh1B.png https://i.imgur.com/8jJkh1B.png Ill try to share an MP3...
- techwizrd 4y agoWhen this was previously posted, some of the commenters mentioned that this might be breaking the LiveATC TOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914
- humanizersequel 4y agoAnd then other commenters, namely myself, actually read the TOS and realized that there's no reason to think that.
- 0xffff2 4y agoThere's no reason not to think that either as far as I can see from that thread.
- humanizersequel 4y agoEverything on that site is fine by the TOS so long as she had permission to use the streams. Since the site has been up for 2 years, I think it's pretty safe to assume she got permission.
- Invictus0 4y agoI just wish the ATC audio were processed a bit more: maybe slow it down and put in some reverb?
- KiranRao0 4y agoSlowing down would be hard since it's a live stream
- smcnally 4y agonot recommended for pilots and controlling air traffic, but ffmpeg’s ‘atempo‘ filter works on audio streams: ‘ffmpeg -i ATC.wav -filter:a "atempo=0.5" -vn lofiatc.wav’ https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#atempo https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#atempo
- WantonQuantum 4y agoKiranRao0's point is that this will eventually fail: curl -L http://d.liveatc.net/klax_twr http://d.liveatc.net/klax_twr | ffmpeg -i - -filter:a atempo=0.5 -f s24le - | ffplay -f s24le -ar 8k -ac 2 - First, the pipe buffer between curl and ffmpeg will fill up (something like 64k) and then curl will be more and more delayed getting the next bit of audio from the server. Eventually the HTTP connection will fail. How and when that happens depends on exactly how the server is set up. On my machine (Ubuntu) it stops after about 15 minutes. You could increase the buffer size with pv or use a temporary file of course.
- blastro 4y agolove it! bookmarked
- blt 4y agodon't listen to KATL towers combined if you want to relax!
- kqr 4y agoSimilar to this, I like listening to the Apollo missions in real time[1], picking one active specific station at a time and listening just to that. FIDO is a good one! [1]: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
- rejectfinite 4y agoSomething about radio comms is soothing to me and I love lofi! Thank you
- dadzilla 4y agoI love these stations. SomaFM carries this and others (or maybe they are just similar mash-ups). I have tinnitus 100% of the time, and silence is the enemy. This kind of sound - indistinct, with variety and high frequencies, is the most helpful.
- chambo622 4y agoNone of the airport feeds I've tried have worked, unfortunately.
- elliottcarlson 4y agoKJFK was the only one that loaded immediately and had ATC comms going. KEWR took forever to load and even when Live nothing was coming through.
- Mr-Mercury 4y agoKLAX South Tower has a pretty decent of traffic from what I've noticed.
- alfred_joseph 4y agoAs soon as I started listening I heard about AS1412 making an emergency landing
- nathanmcrae 4y agoSome others have mentioned SomaFM and the Apollo missions separately, but SomaFM has a station that combines ambient music and the Apollo mission audio: https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/ https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
- SllX 4y agoI didn’t know I needed this in my life until now. Thanks!
- TigeriusKirk 4y agoAre there any feeds of live current space mission audio?
- Sosh101 4y agoIf you like soma, also check out blue mars: http://echoesofbluemars.org/ http://echoesofbluemars.org/ edit: just been listening to that Apollo channel - fascinating recordings.
- theK 4y agoSoma is such a great station! If you are a Hardcore listener some channels might appear a bit repetitive from time to time but in my experience this self corrects over time.
- olkingcole 4y agoGreat vibe. My only gripe is the music doesn't seem to be lofi at all, just like slow beats. Maybe it's just where I'm at in the playlist though.
- Justin_K 4y agoSuper cool. United used to let passengers listen to the flight's atc comms, which I really liked. Then they merged with Continental and got rid of it. I always wondered why the took away that feature.
- lucb1e 4y agoI recently saw a video where ATC made a mistake and nearly let two planes get too close (one landing, another taking off, on crossing runways). They caught it in time (some ATC automated checking system was still doing its announcement as the controller saw and diverted them both) but hearing that as a passenger, I can imagine the panic that's not going to help anyone. Don't know if that is the reason, or if that's even a legitimate reason (it's about your life after all, even if you're powerless to save it), but I could imagine that being a consideration.
- lostlogin 4y agoHave an air traffic controller tell you that your about to die would seem unlikely to be a panic inducing event. The level of calm in utter carnage is very much a thing. I’d prefer not to test this theory.
- thakoppno 4y agoThat reminds me about that one JetBlue emergency landing where passengers could watch their own plane attempt a landing. IIRC, the flight attendants disabled the system right at landing to prevent presumed panic. That decisions amusing to me since there’s a 15-30 second delay with satellite TV anyway. I can’t imagine there was a true opportunity for passengers to see anything scary in this scenario.
- seabass-labrax 4y agoThere's an informative video on YouTube about that JetBlue incident and the (successful) attempt to recover from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpsgn9LM0G8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpsgn9LM0G8 Reading your comment, my flippantly ironic thought was that it's just as well real life isn't delayed from the satellite TV; that could really cause some panic in the cabin!
- johnchristopher 4y agoSomaFM has https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033 https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033 (ambient with real-time chat from LAPD) and https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/missioncontrol https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/missioncontrol (ambient and Houston old chit-chat I think). They also have this new n5md channel that has sooooo many good tracks :). I don't get Lofi, it's way too sad/nostalgic to me to be relaxing but the oversound here is okay (for a bit). edit: BUT. Sometimes somaFM will sing tunes that sounds like Ross from Friends or weird 32 minutes "dzing-dzin" loop. When it happens I click on "wtf ?!" in the app and switch to another channel (that I flood with "I love this").
- lostlogin 4y ago> Sometimes somaFM will sing tunes that sounds like Ross from Friends Add a laugh track and your descent into hell will be complete.
- actionfromafar 4y agoJust so everybody understands, there's an actual band named "Ross from Friends".
- lostlogin 4y agoI was way off track, Sorry.
- johnchristopher 4y agoWell, you were not ! I didn't know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_from_Friends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_from_Friends, I was thinking about that particular segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLa8Br569gA&t=90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLa8Br569gA&t=90s (laugh track included).
- Balgair 4y agoI love lofi streams on YT. I especially love them combined with ambient nature bathing. Something about it is sad/nostalgic, for sure. But when you get that ambient nature bathing in there, it becomes, to me, more hopeful and ... healing, in a way. Nostalgia is still there, but more of the hopeful/relaxing vibes than the sad ones. I got way into them during lockdowns, obviously, but have kept it up. The trick is finding a real nature bathing track. Not just some soundboards that loop or are set at random. Real high quality audio from real places over hours of time are rare, but very worth it. My post history has more on the specific tracks I've found, with a few other commenters chipping in every once in a while. You get a bit more wanderlust, tempered by the lofi. It's a strange brew, but gets me through the days.
- Etheryte 4y agoVery pleasant to have this playing in the background. Is there a list of the playlist available somewhere?
- oriettaxx 4y agobroadcasts here https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php but I guess you want the music, don't you? (me, too)
- initramfs 4y agoHollywood has a way of turning anything into a production.
- jjulius 4y ago... what does this have to do with Hollywood?
- initramfs 4y agoLayering music over footage/audio(content) is a production. Not saying it's bad nor good. Just a fact.
- jjulius 4y agoIt's a music production trick employed by untold numbers of musicians all over the world, more commonly known as "sampling". It has nothing to do with Hollywood.
- lostlogin 4y agoIts history goes way back - quite interesting and as you say, not Hollywood or even US in origin (according to the below). https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-first-song-to-use-sampling/?amp https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-first-song-to-use-sampling/...
- initramfs 4y agoI must have a neurological condition called synesthesia where audio appear like images.
- gokhan 4y agoAlso this https://listentothe.cloud/ https://listentothe.cloud/
- nine_k 4y agoSpeaking about an opposite thing: am I the only one who gets terribly distracted by any hint of human speech in the ambient sounds? In my case, it completely destroys concentration; my mind immediately switches to listening mode, trying to understand the speech and tune in to the conversation. This is why I only listen to the instrumental music during work, and pain to hear an occasional phrase dropped into a perfectly good IDM / synthwave / electronica track. I wish a "speech-free" tag existed e.g. on Bandcamp; some artists helpfully put annotations on their albums, e.g. Master Boot Record's "100% dehumanized", but apparently most artists and likely listeners do not see the presence of words as a large differentiator. I know 2-3 of my friends who exhibit a similar effect. I wonder if it's rare, or not so rare but not noticed much.
- VBprogrammer 4y agoI definitely get where you are coming from. I've been known to listen to music in languages I don't know as a bit of a work around for that.
- scns 4y agoI even get distracted by those.
- M3L0NM4N 4y agoLol I started listening to Spanish music to work around that issue as well, but when I listen to the same song so long I can get used to it, plus I speak a basic level of Spanish.
- nine_k 4y agoSame here. Switching to Japanese helped, until I achieved a basic level of Japanese. This also killed Korean lyrics, because Korean sounds similar enough to Japanese to trigger my attention, but I can't understand a word! :-D
- andrepd 4y agoTrue, but on the other hand I also get distracted at instruments x) Classical music especially is a no-no, I'll get too interested and stop paying attention to what I'm doing lol. However, ambient sounds are perfect. I'll never get tired of plugging this: mynoise.net
- CalRobert 4y agorelated - from 12(!) years ago http://youarelisteningtolosangeles.com/ http://youarelisteningtolosangeles.com/ It expanded to other cities. Montreal police meant I wasn't distracted since I don't speak French.
- bhargav 4y agoI watch a lot of VASAviation YT videos and listen to liveatc here and there. My parents travel every bi-weekly so when possible I always have LiveATC + Flightradar on and track their arrival and taxing. This is a great idea to fill in the "gaps" between comms. Thanks for sharing.
- moralestapia 4y agoCame here to mention SomaFM and am glad to see many other comments about it. Don't forget to support! https://somafm.com/ https://somafm.com/
- 8bitsrule 4y agoSearch doesn't accept city-names but ... if you find the 3-letter IATA airport-code for a particular city (say Pittsburg, PIT)... search for it with a K in front of it (KPIT), it's got many of them. US: https://www.airportcodes.us/us-airports.htm https://www.airportcodes.us/us-airports.htm (Edit: At KFNT, e.g., you'll find much less talk !)
- eiiot 4y agoIf you're interested in listening to more ATC stuff, LiveATC[0] is a pretty good service for listening in while at airports or on a plane (or just while sitting around). I use it when traveling for fun, and it works really well! (The only issue is figuring out what frequency your aircraft is on) [0]: https://www.liveatc.net/ https://www.liveatc.net/
- reset-password 4y agoThis is great. I'd love this with the same style radio chatter, but from a bot that watches my news sources, tweets, emails, and radios itself to discuss interesting things happening. "An email just came in at 0743 AM from Steve.. over" ... "Yeah that looks like an interesting followup to the one from John last week. Someone should reply to this one. Over."
- nine_k 4y agoHear, hear. A real side project opportunity!
- MrGilbert 4y agoIt would require some APIs to be incorporated, and I'd really appreciate if that would be done locally, but… Sounds cool!
- mackopes 4y agoOh this would be awesome. For very long time I’ve been looking for an unintrusive way to receive important notifications on time. And since I almost always listen to music this would work well.
- xattt 4y agoThe search for a perfect notification system for a large org is like a chemical clock reaction, which swings back and forth between states of equilibrium. No one in an org will ever be on the same page, as people work on different tasks. Some tasks are repetitive and allow you to dip your attention in and out. Other tasks might require deep thought (like composition and putting words to a document) where your thoughts and output can’t be mixed with the sound of others coming in. It works for truckers/pilots because the input/output by workers is relatively the same and compatible with background “noise”, but this metaphor breaks down as soon as the type of work changes.
- oakmad 4y agohttps://listentothe.cloud/ https://listentothe.cloud/ Is my favorite. There’s something really soothing about certain regional accents and the rhythm of their comms. I really liked Hong Kong but it always seems to be offline now.
- molokow 4y agobernie sanders filibuster lofi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6qy_9E0rY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6qy_9E0rY
- n1b0m 4y agoHow do air traffic controllers understand what’s being said with all the static?
- someweirdperson 4y agoPractice... getting used to. And in some cases better receivers than the one on someones private roof used to capture the transmissions for the stream.
- varenc 4y agoI noticed that the KLAX audio feed is in stereo and isolates the voice chatter to either the left or the right channel. Which might be confusing on headphones. I'm not sure how it's determined what audio goes to each channel but it seems very intentional. I'm guessing this is a way of listening to to multiple overlapping channels. Does anyone know more about this? Is separating radio chatter into distinct channels and listening over stereo something air traffic controllers do in practice or is that just for the benefit of this feed? p.s. here's just the KLAX feed without the lofi beats: https://s1-bos.liveatc.net/klax_twr https://s1-bos.liveatc.net/klax_twr
- blt 4y agoSouth tower (runways 25L & 25R) and North tower (runways 24L & 24R) are on different frequencies. On LiveATC you can listen to each tower individually.
- FL410 4y agoNot sure if air traffic controllers do it but pilots do. Often will have one radio on in the left ear and another in the right. The newer audio panels will do “3d audio” so it’s more spatial. When you have it this way, it’s easier for your brain to ignore one when you are paying attention to the other.
- someweirdperson 4y ago> Not sure if air traffic controllers do it but pilots do. Often will have one radio on in the left ear and another in the right. It sounds very general, that pilots do, and often. I guess it is missing a "some", "few", and/or "I" somewhere. Of all the various headset connectors [0], only redel/lemo and (probably) fischer are stereo. That's a very small part of the complete GA fleet, and likely even lower in commercial (if modern, using 5-pin XLR). edit: Looks like U174 is stereo, too. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_headset_connectors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_headset_con...
- suby 4y agoI've been listening to this all day. If you're the creator of this OP, thank you, it's very good.
- deepsun 4y agoI always had problems understanding what they say so quickly. Are there any voice recognition AIs that are trained on ATC voice data, with typical RF noise?
- woodson 4y agoThere are some projects, such as this one: https://github.com/idiap/w2v2-air-traffic https://github.com/idiap/w2v2-air-traffic They transcribed 5000 hours of ATC speech data (available for licensing, not free).
- lispisok 4y agoBeing able to adjust the volume of the music and radio is an underrated and greatly appreciated feature. Great job whoever made this
- timthorn 4y agoI live at the start of the final approach path to one of the London airports, and used to live at an equivalent point for one of the others. I started to put together a site that combined ATC audio, ADS-B data and a live webcam - but then found it would be illegal to include the audio in the UK. :/
- omeid2 4y ago"Everyone" uses IATA, why use ICAO codes?
- Zeyka 4y agoIata codes are just used with passengers, icao codes are used for everything else.
- infinitedata 4y agoThis is very cool. I do think it needs two volume controls so you can adjust. Music is too loud, I would like to hear the chatter more and LoFi just filling the gaps. I wonder if something can be build on top of it if the mix is happening in the browser…
- wlonkly 4y agoIf you click "Settings" (on the right on desktop, not sure on mobile), it gives you two volume sliders, one for music and one for ATC.
- rafalages 4y agoHas anyone found an airport from Brazil? I couldn't find any codes starting with SB.
- jconnop 4y agoDon't think this site is including them, but you can listen to Brazil ATC here: https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=international-sa https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=international-sa
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