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Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links

156 points by m_walden 3y ago

kls0e 3y ago
interesting. I have had a nectarine demoscene radio sticker on my last fridge. Didn‘t know there is so much more. Thanks!
bronikowski 3y ago
Every morning I turn up my computer, go to grab some tea, start pyradio and pick up Slay Radio from the list. Nectarine is for the evenings.
williamjackson 3y ago
I’ve been an admin at https://rainwave.cc https://rainwave.cc for about 15 years now. One of the unique (I think) features we have allows listeners to influence what plays next on the radio. While the current song is playing, we run a three-candidate election to choose the next song. We usually include a listener request as one of the three candidates in the election. We’re a friendly community, in my obviously biased opinion. Feel free to hang out with us on Discord; the link is on the Rainwave homepage.
- aquova 3y ago
  I love rainwave, it's a excellent site for gaming music.
- wizardwes 3y ago
  I'm not sure anymore, but I remember back when I was in middle school, Radio Hyrule was entirely music selected by listeners in a queue, moving random only when it was empty. I believe there were queue limits on users though
  - m_walden 3y ago
    The following still works, though the home page has no functionality. I will add this later. Thanks. Radio Hyrule - Zelda music 24/7! http://RadioHyrule.com http://RadioHyrule.com https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen.m3u https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen.m3u https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen (192 kbps MP3) https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo.m3u https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo.m3u https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo (64 kbps MP3)
    - joecool1029 3y ago
      https://www.radio-browser.info/ https://www.radio-browser.info/ has those streams listed (and this database feeds into radiodroid if you want a way to stream it on a phone using opensource parts) EDIT: Misread the parent comment, radiohyrule (rainwave is) isn't on there but submissions are open if you'd like to add it.
- m_walden 3y ago
  I do not recall any other demoscene/vgm station on the list with voting capability. Yours is the only one. Thanks for the invite.
  - zfxfr 3y ago
    If I am not mistaken nectarine have been doing it for year?
- debo_ 3y ago
  cvgm.net lets any listener queue up to 5-6 tracks. nectarine is 1-3 iirc, but I didn't hang out there much.
  - roxil 3y ago
    I'd like to plug my own favorite here: https://queup.net https://queup.net (former dubtrack.fm) let's you create your own playlists from YouTube and soundcloud, then you can make your own channel, people can join and you take turns playing what you put in your music queue.
- trinsic2 3y ago
  Thanks. I'll check it out. Didn't even know there were radio stations for game music.
- butz 3y ago
  Been listening to rainwave for over three years now, gamification aspect with voting is very fitting for a video game music streaming website.
djaouen 3y ago
These would pair well with my internet radio program written in Hylang: https://github.com/danieljaouen/pi-radio-hylang https://github.com/danieljaouen/pi-radio-hylang ;)
- m_walden 3y ago
  Could you please clarify the statement "An internet radio program written in the Hy language + Flask."? Is this a streaming radio player program? I might add it to my "Desktop Streaming Radio Players" list at https://mw.rat.bz/players/ https://mw.rat.bz/players/ . Is it mostly a Linux application? Thanks.
  - djaouen 3y ago
    It is (mostly) a Linux program. It uses mpd and mpc underneath, and its function is to help you store your favorite stations to a database (sqlite) for easy rememberability. Note that you have to open the files in a text editor to extract the correct links (unless the correct link is given already).
xrd 3y ago
I'm really fascinated by the demoscene, but clicking on those links only gives me music which seems completely devoid of humans. And, I suppose I'm really interested in the demoscene because I really want to know the humans behind it. My current favorite radio stations are things like KMHD jazz in Portland, OR, or BBC with Gilles Peterson. Great music, but they always provide such fascinating context to the people behind the music. How do I get to know the people making demoscene art? Is there a radio station where someone can introduce me to that? Or, is this the wrong way to think about the demoscene?
- m_walden 3y ago
  Have a look at the following link to learn about the demoscene Demoscene https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene The music devoid of humans :-) is meant to sound that way. The history of the demoscene music goes back to the 80s and 90s on microcomputers with limited memory and other capabilities. These tunes are created in chiptunes and module files that are surprisingly small size for the amount of music they produce. See the following two links for more info. Chiptune https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune Module file https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
- ehnto 3y ago
  Not demoscene related, but I can see it intersects your interests of games and music: 8-bit music theory on YouTube covers music in depth which often includes diving into a musician's unique styles.
- keiferski 3y ago
  A few month ago, I interviewed a guy that covers the demoscene on YouTube. It received a lot of insightful comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344
VyseofArcadia 3y ago
Radio Sega seems to be missing from the list - https://www.radiosega.net/ https://www.radiosega.net/
- m_walden 3y ago
  I will add the following later. Thanks! RadioSEGA - Playing the best SEGA music 24/7! https://www.RadioSEGA.net https://www.RadioSEGA.net https://www.RadioSEGA.net/listen/ https://www.RadioSEGA.net/listen/ RadioSEGA - Playlist https://www.RadioSEGA.net/play/ https://www.RadioSEGA.net/play/ http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/live http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/live (64 kbps AAC+) RadioSEGA - Playlist http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3.m3u http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3.m3u http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3 http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3 (96 kbps MP3)
atum47 3y ago
I tried something very similar a few years ago with Radio [1]. To have animations running along side good music. I got in touch with a lot of web radios asking to use their links. In the beginning I had a lot of streams on my project, but after a while I had to remove a bunch of them, cause they either stop working or were not serving it via HTTPS (chrome wouldn't let me stream http over my https app). Most of the animations were made by me, I've asked a lot of programmers to contribute, but few did. In the end, I let the project run it course. Visiting it today to write this post I saw the only one radio is working "Classic Rock Florida HD". Those guys really liked this project, they were using the link to my app instead of theirs a while ago 1 - https://victorribeiro.com/radio/classicrockflorida https://victorribeiro.com/radio/classicrockflorida https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radio https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radio
fnord77 3y ago
I picked 3 random links and none of them worked. and all of them had ads and trackers blocked by my plugins
- m_walden 3y ago
  I am sorry to hear that. As for ads, I do not run an ad blocker, so none of the links were an issue for me. Try others, you likely will have no issues on some of them. Kohina, at the top of the list, has no ads for sure.
sedatk 3y ago
Not a Demoscene radio per se, but SomaFM is also a donation-funded internet radio that's well aligned with demoscene listeners like me: electronic, chill, downtempo music which goes well with coding sessions. I've been listening to them for decades now. https://somafm.com https://somafm.com
- m_walden 3y ago
  Yes, they are a good source of interesting music. I found them way back when I first got Winamp to stream music when I got broadband after having dial-up Internet.
- dr_kiszonka 3y ago
  So good to see they are still around! Thanks!
heed 3y ago
A worthy mention is zoasty's (super metroid speed runner and musician) alt twitch stream where hardware rips of video game music are played: https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk More info on the channel: https://pastebin.com/RuAqfgqM https://pastebin.com/RuAqfgqM
- m_walden 3y ago
  I went to the https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk link and saw video of a video game being played and turned up the volume and heard Jazz, Fiddle, Flamenco Guitar and real music from acoustic instruments and no ripped video game music. What am I missing here? I went to http://dmpsoft.s17.xrea.com/hoot/ http://dmpsoft.s17.xrea.com/hoot/ and see that the hoot... - Sound Hardware Emulator program is documented all in Japanese. I am not interested in going to the effort of translating this page. I went to the other links from the pastebin page and find this stuff a little too difficult to get into right now. I am not interested in downloading software and content to try this stuff out. I may not be interested, but possibly another reader will see your comment and dive into it. Thanks for you comment and please enjoy what I posted on my page!
  - heed 3y ago
    It's possible other types of music are sometimes played, but I've never personally seen it. Usually you can see where the VGM comes from scrolling at the top of the stream. Also, zoasty explains in the pastebin that he had a lot of help setting hoot up, so I don't think the expectation is for others to be able to easily recreate what he did.
snvzz 3y ago
And yet not a single reference to https://pouet.net https://pouet.net somehow.
- m_walden 3y ago
  I am aware of this site, and it has great demoscene demos! I am not aware of it having demoscene streaming music. If it does, let me know where. Thanks!
renegat0x0 3y ago
My links, I have not verified them all if have valid content: - https://www.remix64.com/ https://www.remix64.com/ - https://modarchive.org/ https://modarchive.org/ - https://www.pouet.net/ https://www.pouet.net/ - https://www.elwoodproductions.com/ https://www.elwoodproductions.com/ - https://nolife-radio.com/ https://nolife-radio.com/ - https://www.lukhash.com/ https://www.lukhash.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/@lukhash https://www.youtube.com/@lukhash - https://keygenmusic.tk/ https://keygenmusic.tk/ - https://csdb.dk/ https://csdb.dk/ - https://www.amigaremix.com/ https://www.amigaremix.com/ - https://archive.org/details/essential-keygen-music https://archive.org/details/essential-keygen-music - https://www.youtube.com/@Kuokka77 https://www.youtube.com/@Kuokka77 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3idhsGatQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3idhsGatQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82euAFSg7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82euAFSg7U - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mVa7D-ZPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mVa7D-ZPY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS66ZWrxWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS66ZWrxWg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p3-8fTo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p3-8fTo0

156 points by m_walden 3y ago

interesting. I have had a nectarine demoscene radio sticker on my last fridge. Didn‘t know there is so much more. Thanks!

bronikowski 3y ago

Every morning I turn up my computer, go to grab some tea, start pyradio and pick up Slay Radio from the list. Nectarine is for the evenings.

williamjackson 3y ago

I’ve been an admin at https://rainwave.cc https://rainwave.cc for about 15 years now. One of the unique (I think) features we have allows listeners to influence what plays next on the radio. While the current song is playing, we run a three-candidate election to choose the next song. We usually include a listener request as one of the three candidates in the election. We’re a friendly community, in my obviously biased opinion. Feel free to hang out with us on Discord; the link is on the Rainwave homepage.

aquova 3y ago
I love rainwave, it's a excellent site for gaming music.
wizardwes 3y ago
I'm not sure anymore, but I remember back when I was in middle school, Radio Hyrule was entirely music selected by listeners in a queue, moving random only when it was empty. I believe there were queue limits on users though
- m_walden 3y ago
  The following still works, though the home page has no functionality. I will add this later. Thanks. Radio Hyrule - Zelda music 24/7! http://RadioHyrule.com http://RadioHyrule.com https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen.m3u https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen.m3u https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen (192 kbps MP3) https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo.m3u https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo.m3u https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo (64 kbps MP3)
  - joecool1029 3y ago
    https://www.radio-browser.info/ https://www.radio-browser.info/ has those streams listed (and this database feeds into radiodroid if you want a way to stream it on a phone using opensource parts) EDIT: Misread the parent comment, radiohyrule (rainwave is) isn't on there but submissions are open if you'd like to add it.
m_walden 3y ago
I do not recall any other demoscene/vgm station on the list with voting capability. Yours is the only one. Thanks for the invite.
- zfxfr 3y ago
  If I am not mistaken nectarine have been doing it for year?
debo_ 3y ago
cvgm.net lets any listener queue up to 5-6 tracks. nectarine is 1-3 iirc, but I didn't hang out there much.
- roxil 3y ago
  I'd like to plug my own favorite here: https://queup.net https://queup.net (former dubtrack.fm) let's you create your own playlists from YouTube and soundcloud, then you can make your own channel, people can join and you take turns playing what you put in your music queue.
trinsic2 3y ago
Thanks. I'll check it out. Didn't even know there were radio stations for game music.
butz 3y ago
Been listening to rainwave for over three years now, gamification aspect with voting is very fitting for a video game music streaming website.

djaouen 3y ago

These would pair well with my internet radio program written in Hylang: https://github.com/danieljaouen/pi-radio-hylang https://github.com/danieljaouen/pi-radio-hylang ;)

m_walden 3y ago
Could you please clarify the statement "An internet radio program written in the Hy language + Flask."? Is this a streaming radio player program? I might add it to my "Desktop Streaming Radio Players" list at https://mw.rat.bz/players/ https://mw.rat.bz/players/ . Is it mostly a Linux application? Thanks.
- djaouen 3y ago
  It is (mostly) a Linux program. It uses mpd and mpc underneath, and its function is to help you store your favorite stations to a database (sqlite) for easy rememberability. Note that you have to open the files in a text editor to extract the correct links (unless the correct link is given already).

xrd 3y ago

I'm really fascinated by the demoscene, but clicking on those links only gives me music which seems completely devoid of humans. And, I suppose I'm really interested in the demoscene because I really want to know the humans behind it. My current favorite radio stations are things like KMHD jazz in Portland, OR, or BBC with Gilles Peterson. Great music, but they always provide such fascinating context to the people behind the music. How do I get to know the people making demoscene art? Is there a radio station where someone can introduce me to that? Or, is this the wrong way to think about the demoscene?

m_walden 3y ago
Have a look at the following link to learn about the demoscene Demoscene https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene The music devoid of humans :-) is meant to sound that way. The history of the demoscene music goes back to the 80s and 90s on microcomputers with limited memory and other capabilities. These tunes are created in chiptunes and module files that are surprisingly small size for the amount of music they produce. See the following two links for more info. Chiptune https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune Module file https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
ehnto 3y ago
Not demoscene related, but I can see it intersects your interests of games and music: 8-bit music theory on YouTube covers music in depth which often includes diving into a musician's unique styles.
keiferski 3y ago
A few month ago, I interviewed a guy that covers the demoscene on YouTube. It received a lot of insightful comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344

VyseofArcadia 3y ago

Radio Sega seems to be missing from the list - https://www.radiosega.net/ https://www.radiosega.net/

m_walden 3y ago
I will add the following later. Thanks! RadioSEGA - Playing the best SEGA music 24/7! https://www.RadioSEGA.net https://www.RadioSEGA.net https://www.RadioSEGA.net/listen/ https://www.RadioSEGA.net/listen/ RadioSEGA - Playlist https://www.RadioSEGA.net/play/ https://www.RadioSEGA.net/play/ http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/live http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/live (64 kbps AAC+) RadioSEGA - Playlist http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3.m3u http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3.m3u http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3 http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3 (96 kbps MP3)

atum47 3y ago

I tried something very similar a few years ago with Radio [1]. To have animations running along side good music. I got in touch with a lot of web radios asking to use their links. In the beginning I had a lot of streams on my project, but after a while I had to remove a bunch of them, cause they either stop working or were not serving it via HTTPS (chrome wouldn't let me stream http over my https app). Most of the animations were made by me, I've asked a lot of programmers to contribute, but few did. In the end, I let the project run it course. Visiting it today to write this post I saw the only one radio is working "Classic Rock Florida HD". Those guys really liked this project, they were using the link to my app instead of theirs a while ago 1 - https://victorribeiro.com/radio/classicrockflorida https://victorribeiro.com/radio/classicrockflorida https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radio https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radio

fnord77 3y ago

I picked 3 random links and none of them worked. and all of them had ads and trackers blocked by my plugins

m_walden 3y ago
I am sorry to hear that. As for ads, I do not run an ad blocker, so none of the links were an issue for me. Try others, you likely will have no issues on some of them. Kohina, at the top of the list, has no ads for sure.

sedatk 3y ago

Not a Demoscene radio per se, but SomaFM is also a donation-funded internet radio that's well aligned with demoscene listeners like me: electronic, chill, downtempo music which goes well with coding sessions. I've been listening to them for decades now. https://somafm.com https://somafm.com

m_walden 3y ago
Yes, they are a good source of interesting music. I found them way back when I first got Winamp to stream music when I got broadband after having dial-up Internet.
dr_kiszonka 3y ago
So good to see they are still around! Thanks!

heed 3y ago

A worthy mention is zoasty's (super metroid speed runner and musician) alt twitch stream where hardware rips of video game music are played: https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk More info on the channel: https://pastebin.com/RuAqfgqM https://pastebin.com/RuAqfgqM

m_walden 3y ago
I went to the https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk link and saw video of a video game being played and turned up the volume and heard Jazz, Fiddle, Flamenco Guitar and real music from acoustic instruments and no ripped video game music. What am I missing here? I went to http://dmpsoft.s17.xrea.com/hoot/ http://dmpsoft.s17.xrea.com/hoot/ and see that the hoot... - Sound Hardware Emulator program is documented all in Japanese. I am not interested in going to the effort of translating this page. I went to the other links from the pastebin page and find this stuff a little too difficult to get into right now. I am not interested in downloading software and content to try this stuff out. I may not be interested, but possibly another reader will see your comment and dive into it. Thanks for you comment and please enjoy what I posted on my page!
- heed 3y ago
  It's possible other types of music are sometimes played, but I've never personally seen it. Usually you can see where the VGM comes from scrolling at the top of the stream. Also, zoasty explains in the pastebin that he had a lot of help setting hoot up, so I don't think the expectation is for others to be able to easily recreate what he did.

snvzz 3y ago

And yet not a single reference to https://pouet.net https://pouet.net somehow.

m_walden 3y ago
I am aware of this site, and it has great demoscene demos! I am not aware of it having demoscene streaming music. If it does, let me know where. Thanks!

renegat0x0 3y ago

My links, I have not verified them all if have valid content: - https://www.remix64.com/ https://www.remix64.com/ - https://modarchive.org/ https://modarchive.org/ - https://www.pouet.net/ https://www.pouet.net/ - https://www.elwoodproductions.com/ https://www.elwoodproductions.com/ - https://nolife-radio.com/ https://nolife-radio.com/ - https://www.lukhash.com/ https://www.lukhash.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/@lukhash https://www.youtube.com/@lukhash - https://keygenmusic.tk/ https://keygenmusic.tk/ - https://csdb.dk/ https://csdb.dk/ - https://www.amigaremix.com/ https://www.amigaremix.com/ - https://archive.org/details/essential-keygen-music https://archive.org/details/essential-keygen-music - https://www.youtube.com/@Kuokka77 https://www.youtube.com/@Kuokka77 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3idhsGatQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3idhsGatQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82euAFSg7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82euAFSg7U - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mVa7D-ZPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mVa7D-ZPY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS66ZWrxWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS66ZWrxWg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p3-8fTo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p3-8fTo0