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Radio Garden
- mitchbob 2y agoDiscussed previously (123 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771
- gaudystead 2y agoI love this website! Also, if you like this site, be sure to check out radiooooo.com for a similar premise, but with more of a historical aspect. I'll additionally plug everynoise.com solely because it has every genre of music you've ever heard of, and then thousands more! Both sites (and radio.garden) are great for finding new music.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoWhy did I listen to a Lowe's commercial on a radio station from Port Mathurin? For reference, an island in the middle of nowhere in the Indian Ocean: https://radio.garden/visit/accacia/Y2DoPxzU https://radio.garden/visit/accacia/Y2DoPxzU My guess is they are just streaming spotify on some VPN with a stolen account that puts them in Florida.
- qxxx 2y agoI am in Germany, I hear German ads there.
- RecycledEle 2y agoI hear English language ads while listening from Texas. It seems they embed ads from out local areas to make money. You will see the timer stop when the ad is playing.
- czottmann 2y agoI've heard a lot of German ads on Nigerian stations. Turns out they were all served by zeno.fm ("The easiest way to create and listen to radio stations and podcasts") which seems to proxy local stations, making money from cramming ads into the streams.
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- knodi123 2y agoIt was a challenge finding something truly foreign. I just kept stumbling across america's best hits of the 80s and 90s, all across the globe. With a steady helping of generic euro-pop. But some revival preaching in africa really felt like visiting a foreign place, as did some cape town talk radio. Obviously the islamic world has a very different playlist, so that was a gimme. What a neat concept!
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- gala8y 2y ago"(...) Get into the water, let is splash across your face. Don't you loose your party, don't you loose your faith (...)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Vtg2Oc4IU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Vtg2Oc4IU
- specialist 2y agoPerfect. Thank you. I needed this today. I loved ONE, back in the day. Have you heard of Lyrics Born? Hearing this track again makes me wonder about their respective influences.
- gala8y 2y agoCool, really happy you like it. I can't decipher/find ONE/Born, thou.
- specialist 2y agoDebut single: Lyrics Born - Calling Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kV6TRs8PU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kV6TRs8PU Um. Just did a quick stroll down memory lane. Ya. Me Phi Me's album ONE hasn't exactly held up well... So here's another movie soundtrack single that I still enjoy: Me Phi Me ft Jeriko One - Here We Come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQsmJif3RTA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQsmJif3RTA
- eigenqwertz 2y agoIn a similar vein: Shirley and Spinoza - https://compound-eye.org/ https://compound-eye.org/ Wonderful random sounds from all over the place
- mmmnnn 2y agocan you believe i’ve found this just on pure luck, trying to listen to exotic asian sounds? it’s really isolated as a location. it’s one of my favs
- rurban 2y agoI once had a little radio show (10 episodes or so) exploring radio garden. I picked some, contacted them for permission, talked a bit and was happy. South American classic music (Strawinsky!) vs Korean classic music (way too much Austrian influence, boring), KTRU Houston vs WFMU Jersey, Rwanda free radio as classic example of inciting genocide, lots of interesting history bits.
- butz 2y agoIt would be great to have some radio static playing when switching radio stations.
- Brajeshwar 2y agoAh! It is its time to be submitted again. I remember submitting it when I found it a few years back. This pops up once a while (seeing a pattern here) and people loving it. 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427701 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441847 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441847
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- Unbefleckt 2y agoIf you're in the UK don't bother downloading for the full experience, it still won't let you listen to anything outside of the UK.
- FerretFred 2y agoCame here to say that! It's a nice app and very innovative, but if I have fire up a f*** VPN every time I want to listen to stations outside the UK, forget it! I don't think the developers care either: I've emailed numerous times without an answer, and even less-than-favourable reviews on the App Store failed to elicit a response. At least tell us the reason for the UK- hatred if you're not going to fix it?!
- bix6 2y agoIt’s a copyright issue. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Garden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Garden “unfortunately the restriction must be extended for an indefinite period due to copyright and neighbouring rights related matters that require clarification. ”
- dwroberts 2y ago(Edited from original comment): Found the actual cause of the problem: https://mediawrites.law/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/judgment.pdf https://mediawrites.law/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/judgment.... Just like TuneIn, they are behaving like a broadcaster and aren't paying license fees, so I guess they are afraid of similar legal action
- zarzavat 2y agoNot sure if it’s still true but you can disable the check very easily using devtools. No need for a VPN.
- kreetx 2y agoDo you happen to know, why are they not using TLS?
- tempodox 2y agoBeing able to pick radio stations by geolocation is a really nice feature. I can go explore the world! But then it's a bit disappointing how similar many stations sound, no matter where they are.
- andrewstuart 2y agoOne of my vague project plans is to convert a world globe so when you touch a location it plays the radio from there. Like this site but in real life.
- assimpleaspossi 2y agoWhat is the point of this? Why is it here? Is there something special going on? So many links to web sites happen where one has no clue why it is posted or what it does.
- dinkleberg 2y agoHave you tried using it?
- assimpleaspossi 2y agoYes but my point is that you need to use it to initially find out anything about it. What does it do? Then I question what this does that a simple Google search can't (find local radio stations that play online).
- Waterluvian 2y agoHow exactly was this made? Are online radio streams just so guaranteed to be a consistent, open API for use? It feels like it would be ridiculously tedious if there were a thousand different ways stations might set up their stream.
- zombiemama 2y agoIn station submission form there's a stream URL field with following restrictions: The stream may be submitted in MP3, AAC, M3U or PLS format, and must be online 24/7. Please enter a secure HTTPS url if you have one.
- bix6 2y agoFavorite stations? Couple of mine: Hip hop lounge in DC, zootopia Stanford, alpha boys Kingston, Kauai community, soggy dollar BVI, smooth jazz NY
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- zombiemama 2y ago1. Radio Študent Ljubljana - public radio, est. 1969 - https://radio.garden/listen/radio-student-fm-89-3/H12zH5Xj https://radio.garden/listen/radio-student-fm-89-3/H12zH5Xj 2. KFFP Freeform Portland - https://radio.garden/listen/kffp-freeform-portland/wgDi5KFv https://radio.garden/listen/kffp-freeform-portland/wgDi5KFv 3. Radio Gugelhopf from Zürich - internet radio - https://radio.garden/listen/radio-gugelhopf/q4oFNLjR https://radio.garden/listen/radio-gugelhopf/q4oFNLjR
- IAmGraydon 2y agoWhen I think of the far reaches of Siberia, I don’t really think of people blasting upbeat euro techno, but there you have it.
- LastTrain 2y agoIt’s a small world
- coreyhn 2y agoThis is really fun! Reminds me of early internet days when there was fun discovery sites like this.
- grandchild 2y agoIt's a bit like the radio version of http://astronaut.io http://astronaut.io :)
- dreadnaut 2y agoWhen this first came out I retrieved the list of stations (around 20k, I think it was just a JSON file), converted it to .m3u8, and I have since used it as a playlist for WinAmp. It's playing one of those streams right now, using 4MB of memory and practically no CPU. Over the years, several streams (or the station themselves unfortunately) have gone offline. To refresh my list I'd have to scrape the "globe", and it doesn't feel like the right thing to do. Has anyone encountered a similar website, but with a simple list of public streams?
- thatloststudent 2y agoYou should be able to do this with radio-browser.info [1]. Specifically, look at the documentation that lists all stations. [1] - https://de1.api.radio-browser.info/#General https://de1.api.radio-browser.info/#General
- lioeters 2y agoDirect link to a JSON file with ~50k Internet radio stations. http://de1.api.radio-browser.info/json/stations http://de1.api.radio-browser.info/json/stations > Everyone is free to use the collected data (station names, tags, links to stream, links to homepages, language, country, state) in their works. I give all the rights I have at the accumulated data to the public domain. https://www.radio-browser.info/ https://www.radio-browser.info/
- dijit 2y agoI'd like to just give some thanks to the author; I use this sometimes when I'm feeling homesick to hear my old local radio stations in the UK. It really quells the feeling of disconnect I sometimes feel to my homeland and gives me comfort when I feel wayward in my spirit.
- dylan604 2y agoThis is an interesting comment in that the stations in my home town are no longer the same. Clear Channel has come in bought up all (only a slight exaggeration) of the stations. The stations I listened to as a kid are no longer around, and some of the stations that are still on the air are different formats. If child me were to listen to radio today, nothing would be recognizable
- dijit 2y agolargely this is true for me, with the exception of Heart FM and BBC. However the UK has strong regional accents (especially in ads) and local radio tends to reflect that, which makes me feel like home.
- alabhyajindal 2y agoBeautifully done!
- AstroJetson 2y agoShout out to my local school district's radio station https://radio.garden/visit/wilmington-de/IgIAlhdo https://radio.garden/visit/wilmington-de/IgIAlhdo WMPH.net 91.7Mhz FM They play everything from Big Band to Taylor Swift (sometimes even back to back). Give a listen, if nothing else they will go "Wow people from around the world listen to us!"
- zoogeny 2y agoIt went straight to my local radio station and I listened for 2 minutes straight of ads! It was actually kind of weird to hear ads for local businesses, like the pub just down the road.
- cactusplant7374 2y agoThis is really cool. My wife and I spent a few months in Merida, MX. Great to listen to music broadcast from there. A great city with a few disadvantages. ;)
- smusamashah 2y agoThis also reminds of WebSDR online radio which you can tune just like a real radio http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ There are many of these radios though http://websdr.org/ http://websdr.org/ http://kiwisdr.com/public/ http://kiwisdr.com/public/
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