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Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
- Willingham 2y agoThey speak a seemingly different language to the untrained ear, here is a good reference to better understand their shorthand and phraseology: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html/chap4_section_2.html https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
- ASinclair 2y agoSo it's like youarelistening.to but for ATC?
- usernameis42 2y agoYes, it's kinda same, ATC communications have a specific rhythm and cadence, the speech is professional, neutral, and emotionally detached, combination with ambient music creates an audio cocoon that helps easily get into flow state and increase your productivity
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- gimmemahlulz 2y agoI love the music but fly for a living so my brain is tuned to instantly drop what im doing and laser focus when I hear ATC comms lol.
- tallmansixfour 2y agoNot working for me. Switched to Toronto not connecting either Samsung Galaxy tab s9 fe+ canada android 14
- sandblast 2y agoDid you enable the toggle in the "Audio Controls" section? That's what got me at first.
- enjaydee 2y agoThat's some strange UX! Usually a drop down without a button would be associated with an affirmative choice in this day and age.
- sandblast 2y agoI agree, I would add a default "nothing" entry in the drop down and enable both ATC feed and the music when an option is clicked.
- usernameis42 2y agoWill try to enhance that one, thanks for sharing feedback
- enjaydee 2y agoThat or move the toggle up closer to the drop down, though then you have to consider moving the volume slider
- usernameis42 2y agoProbably network issues? Have you tried wifi or other network? Yes, also make sure all toggles are on :)
- eamag 2y agoPretty cool! I remember there was https://www.lofiatc.com/ https://www.lofiatc.com/ but looks like it got blocked?
- usernameis42 2y agoYes, lofiatc is not available at the moment
- LightMorpheus 2y agoYeah, I used to use LoFi ATC, but it stopped working. Built something to scratch the itch: https://tonygaeta.com/labs/atc-lofi https://tonygaeta.com/labs/atc-lofi. OP’s design is solid—great site with good options.
- d1sxeyes 2y agoAny idea why only a handful of airports can be selected?
- usernameis42 2y agoI could add some more, there is feedback form on the page, feel free to make a request or ask questions
- sandblast 2y agoDon't get me wrong, but I think this is a perfectly good place for a feedback, since you made the Show HN post. There is no need to redirect users to Google Forms.
- usernameis42 2y agoYes, thats true, thank you! For sure, it is the place for it.
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- cmpaul 2y agoThis is awesome. Where do you get this music stream?
- enjaydee 2y agoIt just loads this https://somafm.com/groovesalad/ https://somafm.com/groovesalad/
- netsharc 2y agoHopefully OP is going to give them some (a lot of?) money, considering there's a promiment link to Product Hunt that says "Launching soon", and nothing on today's Internet is made just for fun anymore, but for $$$$. Oh yeah the ATC radio is also directly from liveatc.net servers, which says on their site: "NOTICE: Third-party use of LiveATC live audio streams is prohibited." and this site probably violates many points on https://www.liveatc.net/legal/ https://www.liveatc.net/legal/ (unless, OP did get their permission to do this...).
- maeil 2y agoOpenAI et al have taught us that breaking millions of website ToCs is completely meaningless. Soma rightfully seem to have just enabled CORS though after seeing this traffic spike. Edit: And now OP just started proxying around it, hilariously adversarial when embedding a donation-based service.
- MrMcCall 2y agoCongratulations. That is very well done, indeed, and the music selection is right up my alley. (FYI: Working on Ubuntu with standard Firefox, no problems at all.) Thanks for this, whoever you are :-) Will try to slide you some cash, when possible. You have made my day brighter, friend. Love and peace to you.
- sandblast 2y agoThe music selection is indeed quite good, but I would try to make sure that there are no vocals in the music — those overlap with ATC too unpleasantly for me.
- WD-42 2y agoIt’s SomaFM. OP has nothing to do with the music selection.
- usernameis42 2y agoGlad to hear that, really appreciate that I made your day brighter! Love and peace!
- MrMcCall 2y agoQuick request: Could you add a toggle for the cloud animation? I like to keep my processors cool :-)
- creaktive 2y agoOP will ask you to use Google Contact Form :)
- usernameis42 2y agoDone, use cloud icon in the top panel
- MrMcCall 2y ago
- sandblast 2y agoI would add a toggle for disabling the clouds animation. It wastes a lot of CPU cycles for me.
- usernameis42 2y agoSure, will consider this and implement soon, thanks for sharing!
- usernameis42 2y agoDone, it's added to the top panel (cloud icon)
- causality0 2y agoYeah that one made my laptop absolutely chug. I want to listen to the page while reading a writeup of why such a simple graphical effect is so inefficiently rendered.
- gatienboquet 2y agoIt's me or it's very slow on edge ?
- usernameis42 2y agoWill check that as well, there is feedback form in the footer, if anyone has some suggestions please share it there, thank you!
- reaperducer 2y agoVery similar to the Scanner Grannies of the last century. Back before talk radio was everywhere, old ladies would put on a scanner in the kitchen and leave it on for days, weeks, years just for company. Sometimes they'd put on the local easy listening station at the same time to fill in the gaps between scanner traffic.
- sandblast 2y agoThanks for this term, that's quite interesting! But it's kind of strange that this turns up only in 5 Google results.
- reaperducer 2y agoThis was in the world before there was a Google. I was a journalist, and scanner grannies regularly called the assignment desk to make sure we hadn't missed something they heard.
- gatienboquet 2y agoMy 8cores CPU goes to 99% when i visit your website. There's something wrong.
- usernameis42 2y agoProbably cloud animations, will make a fix for that one.
- enjaydee 2y agoThis appears to be SomaFM https://somafm.com/groovesalad/ https://somafm.com/groovesalad/ plus LiveATC https://www.liveatc.net https://www.liveatc.net
- sandblast 2y agoAh, that explains the good music selection!
- agentkilo 2y agoYeah these days I just go to LiveATC and start my own choice of music before I start my day. I used LofiATC and it gave me this hobit. Judging by what happened to LofiATC though, it seems LiveATC was not fond of this kind of things.
- pugets 2y agoWhen I turned on the music and chatter, the first audio that played was of a chimpanzee wildly shrieking for about 2 seconds. The song which played after was “Sonargaon” by Daniel Masson, which as far as I can tell does not include that audio. Maybe someone at the KSFO Tower was having a bad day. Very funny.
- usernameis42 2y agoYeah, that's the pretty part of the life chatter XD
- SteveNuts 2y ago“You’re on guard”
- usernameis42 2y agoUPD: You could disable cloud animation, button is added to the top panel, thank you for feedback everyone, hope you're enjoying it! Please share any other suggestions or feedback if you could.
- rediguanayum 2y agoAwesome!!!
- include 2y agoThis is very good indeed! Anyways I've been working with stuff like "Apollo 12 – Lunar Lift-Off/Rendezvous/Docking/LM Jettison (Full Mission 20) " - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfAgzy-TW1g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfAgzy-TW1g as background :)
- WD-42 2y agoPlease give credit to SomaFM if you are going to use their steam. They even have a similar station: https://somafm.com/sf1033/ https://somafm.com/sf1033/ But it’s the SFPD police scanner + chill beats instead of ATC.
- cf100clunk 2y agoYep, I thought the same thing, and this slightly different URL used to give just the SFPD audio: https://somafm.com/scanner/ https://somafm.com/scanner/ I hope that props will be given to SomaFM for their stream and original idea.
- dylanz 2y agoI’ve been listening to SomaFM since 2000! Legendary station.
- AI_beffr 2y agohavent all the PDs across the country switched to encrypted radio coms? and how is this supposed to be relaxing when you could hear a cop screaming for backup after being shot in his pelvis?
- ozozozd 2y agoOfficers getting shot is super rare in SF. South or Midwest is a different story, of course.
- AngryData 2y agoIts not different anywhere else. Cops getting shot in general is incredibly rare.
- rob74 2y agoDoesn't have to be getting shot, but I'd say that the probability of non-routine calls that could disrupt your focus is much greater for police radio then for ATC, so it's good that OP chose ATC instead...
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- neither_color 2y agoATC works for me but not music, I get the following error in the console: Playback error: DOMException: The media resource indicated by the src attribute or assigned media provider object was not suitable
- usernameis42 2y agoShould work better now, I guess it's HN effect, will consider updating stream providers in the future, thanks for update!
- asimovfan 2y agoAre there any other live streams like this that one can play in the background? I am aware of liveatc and broadcastify.
- dwighttk 2y agoasks me to login and the music never loads...
- usernameis42 2y agoApplied some fixes, should work now
- stevage 2y agoGenius. There should be a whole bunch of these mashups. Would love some old Apollo capcom with music.
- slater 2y agoSomaFM's Mission Control gets you there, kinda: https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol
- usernameis42 2y agoGreat idea, will process it, thank you!
- mometsi 2y agoFeature request: an alarm clock mode that gradually fades in stall warnings and mayday chatter when you need to wake up.
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoI’ve always thought that Enterprise D idling for sleeping too, and the alarm clock is the ship going to warp VERY LOUDLY.
- rglover 2y agoSeems like this is SomaFM re-wrapped. If you dig this general idea, the Mission Control station on Soma is undefeated: https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol.
- szermer 2y agoReminds me of You Are Listening To... when you could select the city and the soundcloud tracks. https://youarelistening.to/newyork https://youarelistening.to/newyork
- DarmokJalad1701 2y agoCan you add SoCal (ZLA) approach/departure? There's bound to be lot more audio for the traffic for a general area than a specific airport tower.
- vdqtp3 2y agoApproach/Departure is SCT (SoCal Tracon), ZLA is Los Angeles Center (en route/ARTCC). While there'll be more traffic, it's still spread out across a bunch of sectors that are each typically their own feed.
- DarmokJalad1701 2y agoAh. Fair enough. And yea, you are right about ZLA vs SCT. I think I mostly fly around SCT and don't venture out much into the wider ZLA area. :)
- vdqtp3 2y agoSame...only really talk to center on long xc's with FF
- maeil 2y agoI present you Honest ChillyATC: https://honest-chillyatc.vercel.app/ https://honest-chillyatc.vercel.app/ Edit: Added Airport and chill music station dropdowns. I thought it wasn't really cool to embed these streams from volunteer-run (both), donation-supported (SomaFM) and grift it with BuyMeACoffee/Product Hunt. And when SomaFM doesn't like it and reasonably blocks it through CORS, to proxy around it. And not respond to anyone bringing it up here.
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoThis should be the comment. Or, like, go buy a couple thousand chill tracks, an VHF radio, and actually build your own project.
- rustyhodge 2y agoDon't forget "pay the music royalties"
- Arn_Thor 2y agoExcellent. I appreciate what you've done there!
- rustyhodge 2y agoAppreciate that
- usernameis42 2y agoUPD2: I want to thank HN for the great feedback, and I'm very glad many people liked the service, there is couple of agreements that are under review at the moment, so you might face some interruptions of the stream, I'm working on stabilizing it, hopefully this will be solved soon.
- rustyhodge 2y agoOlzhas, Please remove Groove Salad (and/and any other SomaFM stations) from your site. Not sure what you mean by "agreements that are under review" but stop trying to get around our blocks. Your behavior is unprofessional.
- Angostura 2y agoATC selection menu does not work properly on IOS safari
- nomilk 2y agoBrilliant idea. Although I can't seem to connect to get air traffic audio. I'm weird and often listen to 3 music track simultaneously for optimal flow state / concentration. Typically chillwave|retrowave at high volume, then a couple of other music tracks at much lower volume (if they contain lyrics, I usually like it if I can't distinguish words, so my brain's internal dialogue isn't competing).
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- guest__user 2y agohttps://youarelistening.to/ https://youarelistening.to/ has been doing this for a while (with better ambient music) - granted not a livestream, but the idea.
- vestibule 2y agoThis is just a crappy ChatGPT-generated site ripping off the SOMA FM _Groove Salad_ stream (https://somafm.com/player24/station/groovesalad https://somafm.com/player24/station/groovesalad). What's the matter, is creating something original too much work for you? Have to go rip off someone else's work because you're too damn lazy to put in the effort?
- usernameis42 2y agoWho are you judging here? It’s my experience and experiment, I’m glad for the feedback and have my takeaways out of this, do you want to share something meaningful or just came to share hate?
- someotherperson 2y agoYou seem to be ignoring rustyhodge's multiple comments asking you to stop using Soma's station. Do you mind responding to those comments?
- usernameis42 2y agoSure, I was considering all the feedback, stream now changed to Soundcloud, lesson learned and I really appreciate it! Much Love!
- ohuf 2y agoQuestion: any chance I can have this as a radio station in my Alexa??
- usernameis42 2y agoGreat idea, will research it!
- ohuf 2y agoThank you for making this, @usernameis42: I was still looking for my 2025 "to sponsor" project. I'm donating to SomaFM now!
- usernameis42 2y agoPerfect, they definitely deserve it! <3
- soheil 2y agoThe idea that air traffic control radio can be chill when multiple CRJs crashed within weeks is questionable.