[HN Gopher] Show HN: Campus FM, live stream college and independ...
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Show HN: Campus FM, live stream college and independent radio
stations for free
Author : erichlee
Score : 135 points
Date : 2022-11-15 13:29 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.campus-fm.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.campus-fm.com)
| duderific wrote:
| Really great work! It might also be cool to have a config that
| allows for non-cached streams; that way it would allow for
| "browsing" any of the available streams, rather than limiting to
| 10 pre-selected ones. I found that restriction to be a bit non-
| intuitive.
| erichlee wrote:
| Yep, getting a bunch of comments about the station selection UI
| (also I can tell from the engagement stats that not a ton of
| people are successfully swapping out stations). I'm gonna think
| about how to make this more intuitive in the coming days.
| Thanks for the feedback!
| notRobot wrote:
| Also see: https://radio.garden
| jjice wrote:
| Love the idea! I was in my Uni's radio station and it was such a
| blast. I made some great friends, had some great times, and
| learned a ton. Our "chief engineers" were fantastic engineers.
| The amount I learned from them is incredible.
|
| Radio is interesting because there is a required structure
| (mandated by the FCC) that is fairly strict, but leaves plenty of
| room for creativity and freedom. Great way to learn how to work
| within constraints and get the most out of something.
|
| If any college students are reading this, consider joining your
| school's radio station. It was a great way to meet people and
| learn.
| erichlee wrote:
| Totally! I made this because I used to spend a ton of time at
| my college radio station, and whenever I would visit other
| colleges, I made sure to check out their student radio if they
| had one. The programming is always so unique and offbeat,
| probably because it's mostly just students DJing for fun.
|
| It's been a blast building this--I've been able to spend a ton
| of time listening to college radio, and also sharpen my front
| end skills. Looking for jobs/contracts now if anyone is hiring
| :)
| alexandargyurov wrote:
| Nice :) Long live radio! Check out https://latenight.fm/
| pg5 wrote:
| This is neat. I'm curious where you got the list of stations. I
| try to keep a list of them, as most of them accept indie music
| submissions.
| erichlee wrote:
| I started with like 10 stations and then added them as people
| requested them. Got a ton of requests when I posted this on
| Reddit a while ago. Lmk if there are any stations you'd like to
| see on here!
| creeble wrote:
| Not sure WFMU really counts as college radio any more (used to be
| associated with Upsala college) but it's free-form, listener-
| supported radio that is very influential in the NYC area.
|
| Anyway, add it or don't, but give it a listen!
| gee_totes wrote:
| Love it, and love college radio!
|
| Could you add KAOS?
| erichlee wrote:
| Yep, I got you! Just added to the site :)
| sertsa wrote:
| Works great. Another to add: KDUR https://www.kdur.org/
| grumpwagon wrote:
| Very cool! I listen to WMSE (Wisconsin - Milwaukee School of
| Engineering - https://www.wmse.org/) and WSUW (UWisconsin
| Whitewater - https://917theedge.weebly.com/) pretty regularly.
| It'd be great to see those added, and enjoying finding some new
| ones with this!
| benbristow wrote:
| A UK (Scottish) one - http://uwsradio.co.uk/ - University of the
| West of Scotland
|
| Broadcasts online and in FM/DAB in the Ayrshire region of
| Scotland
| iso1631 wrote:
| My UK university was broadcasting it's Radio station online in
| 2000, and presumably before, it was a desktop (tower) linux PC
| taking the studio output and running (IIRC) Icecast off a
| massive 10M internet connection from the University IT
| department.
|
| More impressive to me was the FM license, which allowed people
| to pick up the station within about a mile of the campus.
|
| I think there's still something to be said for the effort which
| goes into proper radio station - the scheduling, actually
| turning up to broadcast the (live) programs at a specific time,
| phone ins, news segments, etc, and the organisational skills to
| get 50 or so people working together on a single project.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| WTUL's antenna is still down, so this could be useful for the
| NOLA area too.
| exitb wrote:
| It caches the streams in background so the station changes are
| instantaneous, no need to wait for buffering. I've been toying
| with this idea for some time, but never really followed through.
| It's lovely to see it implemented by someone.
| kensai wrote:
| Where are the European university stations?
| jhoechtl wrote:
| There are hardly any
| Zigurd wrote:
| I use Audials for internet radio. Audials has many, if not all,
| of these stations listed, it has mobile apps, and can cast to
| Chromecast devices.
| nicolaslem wrote:
| Similarly, there is Shortwave for Gnome users. It pulls its
| list of stations from www.radio-browser.info.
| floren wrote:
| How about WITR? https://witr.rit.edu/
| VoidWhisperer wrote:
| Seconding this :)
| erichlee wrote:
| WITR is live!
| alksjdalkj wrote:
| This is awesome! I love all the logos. A few more if you want to
| add -
|
| WUSB https://www.wusb.fm/
|
| WSOU https://www.wsou.net/
|
| WNYU https://wnyu.org/
|
| WKCR https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/
| rch wrote:
| I was happy to see KTRU (Rice) is available.
|
| I used to listen to that all the time growing up in Houston.
| The blues show was excellent.
| rmvt wrote:
| nit: should've clarified it's US stations only
| [deleted]
| erichlee wrote:
| It has University of Cologne and a bunch of Canadian stations!
| Are there any other international college stations you'd like
| to see on it? I've mostly been adding stations from user
| requests, and most of them have been in the US.
| rmvt wrote:
| i was thinking european stations (can think of a few from my
| home country, portugal)
| erichlee wrote:
| If you send me some callsigns for Portuguese college
| stations, I would be happy to add them :)
| rmvt wrote:
| hmm not really familiar with callsigns to be honest. i do
| have a list of streams:
|
| - RUA - Radio Universitaria do Algarve:
| https://centova.radio.com.pt/proxy/536?mp=/stream
| (https://rua.pt/)
|
| - Universidade FM (Vila Real):
| https://centova.radio.com.pt/proxy/405?mp=/stream
| (https://www.universidade.fm/)
|
| - UAL - Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa:
| https://spaudio.servers.pt/8006/stream
| (https://ualmedia.pt/radio-autonoma/)
|
| - FEUP - Engenharia Radio:
| http://193.136.38.145:8080/live?type=.mp3
| (www.engenhariaradio.pt)
|
| - RUM - Radio Universitaria do Minho:
| https://centova.radio.com.pt/proxy/558?mp=/stream
| (https://www.rum.pt/)
|
| - RUC - Radio Universidade de Coimbra:
| https://stream.ruc.pt/high (https://www.ruc.pt/)
| TurkishPoptart wrote:
| Great work! Super fast and smooth interface. Curious how you
| built it!
|
| I also suggest adding WGBH Boston - 89.7 MHz
| https://www.wgbh.org/Radio
| nluken wrote:
| Love this.
|
| Curious how you chose the default 8 stations? This is obviously
| super nitpicky but WERS deserves the Boston spot over WHRB IMO.
| Yeah, Emerson isn't exactly a powerhouse school, but their radio
| station is a legitimate player in a major radio market in a way
| that most college radio stations (Harvard's included) aren't.
| Definitely more important in Boston than WHRB is.
|
| That aside, I'll two stations to your list: my former home
| station, WRBB, in lovely Boston, Massachusetts, and WMBR across
| the river in Cambridge.
| erichlee wrote:
| First four-ish were my favorites when I was building this, and
| the rest were pretty arbitrary (though I favored streams that
| were more reliable on more platforms). I actually like WERS
| better than WHRB; will switch them on the next push :)
| floren wrote:
| I was pleasantly surprised to see KUNM on the list!
| foolproofplan wrote:
| had a show on WRBB back in the day too! what a great experience
| :)
| tapoxi wrote:
| WERS is easily my favorite station in the area; and over the
| past year it's given me The Beths, Lake Street Dive, and Wet
| Leg. Absolutely worth a listen.
| nluken wrote:
| Boston really is a city of riches in terms of college radio,
| and each one has its own appeal.
|
| WERS has professional-level radio production, solid music
| that has broad appeal without being "mainstream". Emerson is
| one of the few schools I know of where some people will go to
| the school specifically for the radio station. It's why they
| have such a large, consistent listnership.
|
| WMBR's DJs are fantastic. The station itself definitely has a
| more college feel but it's still very well-produced and the
| station itself seems to be really good at playing obscure
| tunes, especially in the psych/garage/punk/shoegaze realm.
| There's a distinct sort of sound I expect with them that
| almost reminds me of WFMU where I grew up, which is high
| praise.
|
| WHRB tends to favor classical and jazz more than the other
| schools' stations because they dedicate large blocs of time
| to those genres
|
| And then there's my WRBB. We sometimes had some gaps in
| production (depending on who was DJing) but it's still a
| great listen since there tends to be a wider range of tunes
| that come through the station. It also helped that many of
| our DJs were stalwarts of the local DIY music scene, so we
| gave airtime to a lot of small local artists that might not
| have a ton of promotion otherwise.
|
| Personally, I'll always have a soft spot for WRBB owing to my
| time there but really you can't go wrong with any of these.
| rglover wrote:
| This is awesome. Brings back a lot of memories. Love how fast the
| streams switch.
|
| Can you add WBGU-FM out of Bowling Green, Ohio?
| erichlee wrote:
| Just added! Their stream is insecure, so it might not load on
| Chrome desktop. But should be functional on other browsers + on
| mobile :)
| rglover wrote:
| Awesome, thank you for the quickly reply/add!
| bluesquare9 wrote:
| Really snappy! Well done.
| creeble wrote:
| A little lost on the interface on iPad.
|
| There is no search button. When I select Add (+), I can search,
| but when I select from the search results, nothing plays - it
| seems to add it to some list, but any controls to actually make
| it play are either off screen or... something.
|
| I'd like to be able to just search & play. The background loading
| of multiple streams is only useful if switching a lot, but on
| mobile it is a bandwidth-buster.
| erichlee wrote:
| Sounds like I need to work on the UI for switching stations!
|
| The search results let you add new stations to a queue, but
| they're not playable until you press "Reload Stations" on the
| modal--which isn't obvious or intuitive. At the very least I
| can add some instructions for loading new stations.
|
| I've also explored adding a drag and drop interface, but that's
| a little trickier than search (technically and design-wise).
| Will need to think more about it. Thanks for the feedback!
| [deleted]
| xd1936 wrote:
| Very cool! Another addition request. Could you add WTHS, the
| voice of Hope College?
|
| https://wths.hope.edu/
|
| https://s3.radio.co/scf79220ed/listen
|
| https://tunein.com/radio/WTHS-899-s23126/
| jollyllama wrote:
| Nice. I like the suggestion form methodology.
| Mizza wrote:
| This is awesome, feels super snappy. I miss living in a place
| with good indie radio, this is hitting the spot.
| joenot443 wrote:
| CMFU is the college station for my alma-mater, McMaster
| University in Hamilton, ON. I'm sure they'd love to be featured,
| it's the third oldest community station in Canada.
| https://cfmu.ca/
|
| I love listening to these stations, you always get such a great
| variety of music you probably wouldn't hear much of otherwise. It
| seems no amount of Spotify AI will rival the taste-making
| discoverability power of a college hipster behind a DJ set :)
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