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Radio Garden
- redwood 1y agoLove this site. Also see tv.garden
- LeoPanthera 1y agoIt's remarkable to me that TV Garden has BBC channels from the UK. Except for World/News, those channels are not (supposed to be) available outside the UK. I wonder how they're getting them.
- jen729w 1y agoLet's use this to share our favourite stations. Shonan Beach FM, based in Japan. 'Lofi Japanese jazz', I guess? When I lived in a house with a HomePod I had a shortcut hey Siri, Shonan Beach! that was activated most mornings. This was on all day as a low-volume background track. Love it. https://radio.garden/listen/shonan-beach-fm-78-9/qg9qo6VR https://radio.garden/listen/shonan-beach-fm-78-9/qg9qo6VR (I was in Australia, timezone-adjacent. YMMV if you're connecting at 03:00 Tokyo time. Also they do a lot of talking on the weekends.)
- rester324 1y agoInteresting, I haven't heard of this station before, but most of the Shonan area has the vibe of a surf village so the music pretty much matches that vibe. Sounds like a station I'll visit more often.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoOr https://shonanbeachfm.out.airtime.pro:8000/shonanbeachfm_a https://shonanbeachfm.out.airtime.pro:8000/shonanbeachfm_a if you want to use a web radio app like https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.y20k.transistor/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.y20k.transistor/ etc. One unfortunate property of radio.garden is it doesn’t give you the actual stream links (IIRC it proxies the M3Us through its own server), because lock-in I guess? I’d be happy to be proven wrong here, because the site is otherwise excellent. I came upon a French-language radio station catalogue a while ago, and that did have the original links, but I’ve lost the tab since then :( ETA: It was https://www.programmes-radio.com/en/streaming/ https://www.programmes-radio.com/en/streaming/, and I was misremembering: they don’t show the original playlist link either, but they do use it in their streaming widget, so it’s a only short trip to the Network tab of the browser’s devtools away.
- jen729w 1y agoThanks! I typically access through Apple Music, which itself goes via TuneIn. Not a delightful experience, but the only one that works on a HomePod.
- jhoechtl 1y agoAFAIK the https://www.skytune.net/ https://www.skytune.net/ portal gives you the original .mp3/aac/m3u ... adresses
- conradfr 1y agoHello I'm the developer of programmes-radio.com (but non-French people should probably use https://www.radio-addict.com https://www.radio-addict.com instead) (also the website is open source, https://github.com/conradfr/ProgRadio/ https://github.com/conradfr/ProgRadio/) I don't show the streaming links but it's not for lock-in but because I've never got that request :) You can just look them up using developer tools though (same for radio-garden). Not ideal on mobile I guess. I haven't look at what radio.garden does but I proxy some http only streams that don't work well when requested from an https audio element, maybe that's what you're referring to.
- NaOH 1y agoPrevious discussions: Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887359 - July 2024 (64 comments) Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441847 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441847 - Feb 2022 (34 comments) Listen to radio stations from around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138529 - Feb 2021 (32 comments) Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771 - June 2020 (123 comments) Google Earth for live radios - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427701 - Nov 2018 (98 comments) Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058 - Dec 2016 (114 comments) Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160450 - Dec 2016 (4 comments)
- dunno7456 1y agohttps://directory.shoutcast.com/ https://directory.shoutcast.com/ is still kicking :) EDIT: I meant whiping the llamas ass!
- Kozmik1 1y agoI've been using Radio Garden for years. A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations. Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more. I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world. The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however... I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.
- BrandoElFollito 1y agoI like to go there from time to time to listen to languages I do not know. Then I look at the place on Google street view (or satellite view of not available). And try to imagine the life of people there. Then I go to Wikipedia to read about the place and then this is the end: I spend over or two hours reading randomly about loosely related topics. Serendipity is a wonderful thing
- papertokyo 1y agoThis sounds like a wonderful way to spend an afternoon.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoHow do they get all this data? Do they plant receivers all over the world?
- apples_oranges 1y agoNo need. Radio stations have Internet music streams..
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoInteresting, but I assume there are some stations which don't?
- conradfr 1y agoI don't know what radio.garden uses but for my radio streaming site I mostly use https://www.radio-browser.info/ https://www.radio-browser.info/ that I actually discovered on Hacker News.
- NoboruWataya 1y agoWeirdly I'm getting "stations outside the UK unavailable". (I'm based in the UK.)
- dwayne_dibley 1y agoyup me too, which really defeats the point somewhat :(
- gerjomarty 1y agoThis was discussed previously, but this is because of a court case that Warner Music and Sony brought against radio streaming app TuneIn Radio. They argued that streaming stations outside of the UK for listeners inside the UK through the app, while using in-app advertising, was a copyright infringement. This has had a chilling effect on other radio streaming platforms, which have all restricted foreign radio stations on their platforms while geolocated inside the UK. https://www.mishcon.com/news/court-of-appeal-upholds-copyright-infringement-finding-against-tunein-radio https://www.mishcon.com/news/court-of-appeal-upholds-copyrig...
- tetris11 1y agoBlock the https://radio.garden/api/geo https://radio.garden/api/geo URL in ublock origin Gotta give the creators some credit for their 2-foot high wall ;-)
- geff82 1y agoWhat an absolutely lovely webapp! I have loved listening to far away stations since early childhood, when I built antennas in the garden to catch far away waves....
- pmontra 1y agoNice app. I found a radio from the town nearby. Never heard about it. I even like the music they are playing. On the bad side, this is an app which is very difficult to use with uMatrix because it loads JS from the domain of the selected radio and it must be whitelisted. Ok for sparse areas but apparently big cities return a different radio each time (or I didn't zoom it far enough.) I don't know if this is a solvable problem server side. Probably not because what can they do? Run a headless browser and stream the content, one browser per connection? That would be asking too much. I'll whitelist the stations I like most. Thanks for site.
- phrotoma 1y agoHuh, the geolocation on this is surprisingly good. I did not allow the browser to use my current location and it perfectly detected the city I'm in. Most of the time IP based geolocation places me in a nearby larger city, presumably one where my ISP has an exchange.
- efilife 1y agoLikely your IP is dynamic and changed into some address they have more accurate data on
- rcarmo 1y agoAlso: https://radioparadise.com https://radioparadise.com https://radiooooo.com https://radiooooo.com https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/ https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/ (not really radio, but also on my bookmarks)
- reverendsteveii 1y agoIf we're doing "not really radio" I'm gonna tack on https://www.radioisaforeigncountry.org/ https://www.radioisaforeigncountry.org/
- gramie 1y agoRadiooooo has the most annoying popup "Sign up now!" dialog ever. It literally appears every time I click on the web page. Hard pass for me.
- rcarmo 1y agoMy ad blocker seems to deal with that fine - but it is not really the one I like best, except that one or two stations are easier to find.
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- Duanemclemore 1y agoI've used Radio Garden for years to help with language learning. In English language communication I can't stand the ads one bit. But in another language even those are an opportunity for practice.
- tofuziggy 1y agoso true! hahaha
- papertokyo 1y agoThis is genius. I've enjoyed Radio Garden on occasion for the musical novelty but never thought about putting a random station in Latin America on to practice listening to different Spanish accents.
- Duanemclemore 1y agoThanks! One note is that if you're listening to a country's flagship broadcaster - like BBC - they will use a standardized form of the language in their news, etc. I find those stations are best for learning the official tongue in a clear, systematic way. But if you're advanced enough to want more conversational and informal forms - you mention learning different Spanish accents - non-flagship broadcasters might have more of that. Of course the news on any station is going to use more formal language, and the entertainment programming even on the flagship is going to use less formal. Just, the talk station from a flagship broadcaster - like BBC Radio 4 - is going to have the most bang for your buck in language instruction. Seems obvious, but bears mention. Enjoy!
- dijit 1y agoI use this to listen to radio from my home city, it really helps sooth the feeling of homesickness.
- tamakiiroha 1y agoI’m very curious about how this is implemented to play radio stations from all over the world.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoMe as well. My best guess is that someone found various streamed radio sources from around the world and put them in a database. Add lat/long and you can present a UI on top of that. I'd like to reproduce the concept if anyone has any better insight than what I just gave. I want to make a stand-alone device (I wish they made spherical touch screens) so I can just have a "radio" in a room that allows you to select world streams. (Thinking etch-a-sketch style controls would be adequate — user moves a cursor along latitude, longitude with the knobs — radio stations appear when the cursor is near.)
- gosub100 1y agoI wonder if they scripted it for the US, by ingesting a list of FCC licensed stations and writing a crawler that finds their website and audio streams?
- turbosepp 1y agoRelated: I'm working on Radiobird https://radiobird.fm/en https://radiobird.fm/en ...focus is on bookmarking *shows* or *parts of a program* instead of the stations. More a modular / interest based approach to the radio world.
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- scottmcdot 1y agoA feature I've requested (no response, paid membership) is to hide radio stations. This is because I like to trial each radio station in a region before I favourite it. It's difficult to keep track of which station I've trialled if there's no way to hide them or leave a note on them. Hiding them from the map would be most effective.
- lippihom 1y ago+1 this sounds great.
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- dogcow 1y agoAnyone looking for a commercial-free, listener-supported "radio" station would be remiss not to check out https://radioparadise.com https://radioparadise.com -- it is truly a rare-gem in our over-commercialized world. And we can't talk about music streaming on the Internet without mentioning one of the originals -- https://somafm.com https://somafm.com -- still going strong. I support both of these stations because their "business model" is so refreshing, very much in the spirit of the "Old Internet," which I miss dearly.