[HN Gopher] Lofi air traffic control - LAX
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Lofi air traffic control - LAX
Author : hot_gril
Score : 285 points
Date : 2023-04-15 18:28 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.lofiatc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.lofiatc.com)
| anoncow wrote:
| Ah it seems it is down.
| cbracketdash wrote:
| ? it seems to be working for me
| rejectfinite wrote:
| music works but airport radio is down for me
| codetrotter wrote:
| For me it played music for two seconds and then said "feed
| down"
| olkingcole wrote:
| Great vibe. My only gripe is the music doesn't seem to be lofi at
| all, just like slow beats. Maybe it's just where I'm at in the
| playlist though.
| Justin_K wrote:
| Super cool. United used to let passengers listen to the flight's
| atc comms, which I really liked. Then they merged with
| Continental and got rid of it. I always wondered why the took
| away that feature.
| lucb1e wrote:
| I recently saw a video where ATC made a mistake and nearly let
| two planes get too close (one landing, another taking off, on
| crossing runways). They caught it in time (some ATC automated
| checking system was still doing its announcement as the
| controller saw and diverted them both) but hearing that as a
| passenger, I can imagine the panic that's not going to help
| anyone.
|
| Don't know if that is the reason, or if that's even a
| legitimate reason (it's about your life after all, even if
| you're powerless to save it), but I could imagine that being a
| consideration.
| lostlogin wrote:
| Have an air traffic controller tell you that your about to
| die would seem unlikely to be a panic inducing event. The
| level of calm in utter carnage is very much a thing. I'd
| prefer not to test this theory.
| thakoppno wrote:
| That reminds me about that one JetBlue emergency landing
| where passengers could watch their own plane attempt a
| landing.
|
| IIRC, the flight attendants disabled the system right at
| landing to prevent presumed panic. That decisions amusing to
| me since there's a 15-30 second delay with satellite TV
| anyway. I can't imagine there was a true opportunity for
| passengers to see anything scary in this scenario.
| amelius wrote:
| Add some midjourney-generated manga drawings.
| blastro wrote:
| love it! bookmarked
| handedness wrote:
| Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914
| blt wrote:
| don't listen to KATL towers combined if you want to relax!
| 4ndrewl wrote:
| This (well EHAM) is one of my standard daily listens whilst WFH.
| That and the Flying Fortress over at MyNoise (a service I pay
| for)
| https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/propellerNoiseGenerator.ph...
| lofi8320948 wrote:
| Boston College's FM station WZBC has a program No Commercial
| Potential, which plays lots of experimental sounds, some of it
| sounds like MyNoise Flying Fortress. Everything depends on the
| DJ and their mood, but some of it has this vibe.
|
| https://www.wzbc.org/after-hours-ncp
| ashton314 wrote:
| MyNoise is the best. Stephane seems like such a respectful,
| down-to-earth guy. I don't pay for many subscriptions--I go out
| of my way to avoid them--but I put some good money into MyNoise
| regularly because it's been such a valuable service. It's
| optional--I don't actually use many of the paid features--but I
| appreciate it so dang much.
| s5300 wrote:
| This is the dang appreciation bot.
|
| You have put both "appreciate" and "dang" in the same
| comment.
|
| Alhamdulillah
| techwizrd wrote:
| When this was previously posted, some of the commenters mentioned
| that this might be breaking the LiveATC TOS:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914
| johnchristopher wrote:
| SomaFM has https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033
| (ambient with real-time chat from LAPD) and
| https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/missioncontrol (ambient
| and Houston old chit-chat I think).
|
| They also have this new n5md channel that has sooooo many good
| tracks :).
|
| I don't get Lofi, it's way too sad/nostalgic to me to be relaxing
| but the oversound here is okay (for a bit).
|
| edit: BUT. Sometimes somaFM will sing tunes that sounds like Ross
| from Friends or weird 32 minutes "dzing-dzin" loop. When it
| happens I click on "wtf ?!" in the app and switch to another
| channel (that I flood with "I love this").
| lostlogin wrote:
| > Sometimes somaFM will sing tunes that sounds like Ross from
| Friends
|
| Add a laugh track and your descent into hell will be complete.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| Just so everybody understands, there's an actual band named
| "Ross from Friends".
| dafelst wrote:
| Why is this so strangely relaxing? What an amazing idea.
| throwawaaarrgh wrote:
| It's relaxing until they start speaking paragraphs very fast,
| over and over, then it feels stressful ):
| imp0cat wrote:
| Try Narita. https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=RJAA
| capableweb wrote:
| Mixing high-quality full-spectrum audio with low-quality and
| small-spectrum voice always sound neat :)
|
| The measured and calm voice of ATC and pilots probably just
| makes it better, it always sound like they have everything 100%
| under control.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| "Contact" on the Random Access Memories album does this well.
| [1]
|
| That entire song makes me picture a white knuckling
| unscheduled re-entry followed by nail biting waiting,
| concluded by a successful splash down.
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/JI5noh4OyXc
| tpmx wrote:
| The HN submission page could play something like this in the
| background to soothe people while they are preparing their
| angry submissions.
|
| Heh, who am I kidding, HN runs on outrage just like all the
| other social networks.
| PebblesRox wrote:
| Now I'm imagining a writing/journaling app that automatically
| chooses a playlist based on the emotions or concepts detected
| in the writing.
| Etheryte wrote:
| Very pleasant to have this playing in the background. Is there a
| list of the playlist available somewhere?
| oriettaxx wrote:
| broadcasts here https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php
|
| but I guess you want the music, don't you? (me, too)
| bhargav wrote:
| I watch a lot of VASAviation YT videos and listen to liveatc here
| and there. My parents travel every bi-weekly so when possible I
| always have LiveATC + Flightradar on and track their arrival and
| taxing. This is a great idea to fill in the "gaps" between comms.
| Thanks for sharing.
| [deleted]
| kqr wrote:
| Similar to this, I like listening to the Apollo missions in real
| time[1], picking one active specific station at a time and
| listening just to that. FIDO is a good one!
|
| [1]: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
| moralestapia wrote:
| Came here to mention SomaFM and am glad to see many other
| comments about it.
|
| Don't forget to support! https://somafm.com/
| CalRobert wrote:
| related - from 12(!) years ago
|
| http://youarelisteningtolosangeles.com/
|
| It expanded to other cities. Montreal police meant I wasn't
| distracted since I don't speak French.
| southernplaces7 wrote:
| Love this
| Invictus0 wrote:
| I just wish the ATC audio were processed a bit more: maybe slow
| it down and put in some reverb?
| KiranRao0 wrote:
| Slowing down would be hard since it's a live stream
| smcnally wrote:
| not recommended for pilots and controlling air traffic, but
| ffmpeg's 'atempo' filter works on audio streams:
|
| 'ffmpeg -i ATC.wav -filter:a "atempo=0.5" -vn lofiatc.wav'
|
| https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#atempo
| rejectfinite wrote:
| Something about radio comms is soothing to me and I love lofi!
| Thank you
| 8bitsrule wrote:
| Search doesn't accept city-names but ... if you find the 3-letter
| IATA airport-code for a particular city (say Pittsburg, PIT)...
| search for it with a K in front of it (KPIT), it's got many of
| them.
|
| US: https://www.airportcodes.us/us-airports.htm
| rochak wrote:
| That's very nice :)
| dadzilla wrote:
| I love these stations. SomaFM carries this and others (or maybe
| they are just similar mash-ups). I have tinnitus 100% of the
| time, and silence is the enemy. This kind of sound - indistinct,
| with variety and high frequencies, is the most helpful.
| chambo622 wrote:
| None of the airport feeds I've tried have worked, unfortunately.
| elliottcarlson wrote:
| KJFK was the only one that loaded immediately and had ATC comms
| going. KEWR took forever to load and even when Live nothing was
| coming through.
| Mr-Mercury wrote:
| KLAX South Tower has a pretty decent of traffic from what I've
| noticed.
| eiiot wrote:
| If you're interested in listening to more ATC stuff, LiveATC[0]
| is a pretty good service for listening in while at airports or on
| a plane (or just while sitting around). I use it when traveling
| for fun, and it works really well! (The only issue is figuring
| out what frequency your aircraft is on)
|
| [0]: https://www.liveatc.net/
| initramfs wrote:
| Hollywood has a way of turning anything into a production.
| jjulius wrote:
| ... what does this have to do with Hollywood?
| initramfs wrote:
| Layering music over footage/audio(content) is a production.
| Not saying it's bad nor good. Just a fact.
| jjulius wrote:
| It's a _music_ production trick employed by untold numbers
| of musicians all over the world, more commonly known as
| "sampling".
|
| It has nothing to do with Hollywood.
| lostlogin wrote:
| Its history goes way back - quite interesting and as you
| say, not Hollywood or even US in origin (according to the
| below).
|
| https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-first-song-to-use-
| sampling/...
| initramfs wrote:
| I must have a neurological condition called synesthesia
| where audio appear like images.
| hyperific wrote:
| Automated weather service would be cool too
| galangalalgol wrote:
| Weather radio repeat cycle is too short. It becomes noticeable
| and then irritating and distracting. I keep wanting to try
| shortwave news in a language I don't know but sounds nice. If
| it has too many english or Spanish cognates I'll probably get
| distracted trying to figure out what is said. Something tonal
| perhaps, Welsh or Chinese.
| hyperific wrote:
| https://www.weatherusa.net/radio
| alfred_joseph wrote:
| [dead]
| SomeBoolshit wrote:
| Very reminiscent of the soma FM station where they have music
| over an SF police scanner.
| joeysim wrote:
| [dead]
| nine_k wrote:
| Speaking about an opposite thing: am I the only one who gets
| terribly distracted by any hint of human speech in the ambient
| sounds? In my case, it completely destroys concentration; my mind
| immediately switches to listening mode, trying to understand the
| speech and tune in to the conversation.
|
| This is why I only listen to the instrumental music during work,
| and pain to hear an occasional phrase dropped into a perfectly
| good IDM / synthwave / electronica track. I wish a "speech-free"
| tag existed e.g. on Bandcamp; some artists helpfully put
| annotations on their albums, e.g. Master Boot Record's "100%
| dehumanized", but apparently most artists and likely listeners do
| not see the presence of words as a large differentiator.
|
| I know 2-3 of my friends who exhibit a similar effect. I wonder
| if it's rare, or not so rare but not noticed much.
| mhink wrote:
| I experience something similar, but it seems to have more to do
| with *how familiar* I am with the song. If it's something I've
| never heard before, it's much more distracting- even if it
| doesn't have words. On the other hand, if I've listened to it a
| lot, it seems to have the opposite effect, and helps me
| concentrate.
|
| I get this when trying to fall asleep, too: I can't fall asleep
| while watching something new! But give me an episode of
| Futurama I've watched about six hundred and thirty-two times,
| and I'll be out like a light. :)
|
| That being said, this site is interesting because the speech is
| somewhat less distinct and has the odd cadence of aviation
| radio. I'll give it a listen for awhile and see if I get the
| same effect as you.
| mihaic wrote:
| This effect of media familiarity is exactly the same for me:
| I can be very creating when listening to an old playlist, but
| can't think at all when listening to something new.
|
| Not all people seem to be like this though, as I have friends
| that listen to the radio/randomly recommended Spotify songs
| at work.
| andrepd wrote:
| True, but on the other hand I also get distracted at
| instruments x) Classical music especially is a no-no, I'll get
| too interested and stop paying attention to what I'm doing lol.
|
| However, ambient sounds are perfect. I'll never get tired of
| plugging this: mynoise.net
| chungus wrote:
| Yup, same here. It's why I also mostly listen to instrumental
| music. A lot of Aphex Twin. On top of that, when I listen to
| (catchy) music with lyrics, it keeps looping in the background
| of my brain non-stop, sometimes multiple days. A positive -sort
| of related- thing: it's very easy for me to listen to audio-
| books while driving or doing other things and not miss anything
| because I'm so focused on the speech.
| hnarn wrote:
| > am I the only one who gets terribly distracted by any hint of
| human speech in the ambient sounds? In my case, it completely
| destroys concentration
|
| I'm the same, which is why my favorite ambient music for work
| is black metal. You still get music that mirrors how
| troubleshooting kubernetes makes you feel, but you couldn't
| hear the lyrics if you tried :-)
| dado3212 wrote:
| I have this, but I also love lyrical music as opposed to just
| instrumental tracks. My solution was listening to music in
| languages I don't understand (French, Icelandic, etc) where
| there's still the tonal patterns and vocal layering, but
| doesn't flip my brain into "speech processing" mode.
| CalRobert wrote:
| Me too, but only when my work involves words. When I was in
| photoshop all day I listened to podcasts constantly and did
| fine.
| alonsonic wrote:
| This has been studied before and it seems that yes your brain
| has trouble ignoring music with lyrics.
|
| Based on this study[1] you lose at least 10 IQ points when
| studying and listening to music with lyrics.
|
| [1] https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/12/04/listening-to-
| class...
| T3OU-736 wrote:
| Hrm. The study's size of 25 participants, and the inherent
| variance of IQ score estimation both seem to smell more of a
| confirmation bias than a legit anything else.
| goodpoint wrote:
| No, it's absolutely normal. It's difficult to ignore voices.
|
| The same way it's difficult to tell the color of a written word
| if the word itself is a color.
| VBprogrammer wrote:
| I definitely get where you are coming from. I've been known to
| listen to music in languages I don't know as a bit of a work
| around for that.
| M3L0NM4N wrote:
| Lol I started listening to Spanish music to work around that
| issue as well, but when I listen to the same song so long I
| can get used to it, plus I speak a basic level of Spanish.
| scns wrote:
| I even get distracted by those.
| nathanmcrae wrote:
| Some others have mentioned SomaFM and the Apollo missions
| separately, but SomaFM has a station that combines ambient music
| and the Apollo mission audio: https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
| TigeriusKirk wrote:
| Are there any feeds of live current space mission audio?
| SllX wrote:
| I didn't know I needed this in my life until now. Thanks!
| gokhan wrote:
| Also this
|
| https://listentothe.cloud/
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