[HN Gopher] Lofi air traffic control - LAX
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Lofi air traffic control - LAX
Author : hot_gril
Score : 577 points
Date : 2023-04-15 18:28 UTC (1 days 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.
| infinitedata wrote:
| This is very cool. I do think it needs two volume controls so you
| can adjust. Music is too loud, I would like to hear the chatter
| more and LoFi just filling the gaps.
|
| I wonder if something can be build on top of it if the mix is
| happening in the browser...
| suby wrote:
| I've been listening to this all day. If you're the creator of
| this OP, thank you, it's very good.
| reset-password wrote:
| This is great. I'd love this with the same style radio chatter,
| but from a bot that watches my news sources, tweets, emails, and
| radios itself to discuss interesting things happening.
|
| "An email just came in at 0743 AM from Steve.. over" ... "Yeah
| that looks like an interesting followup to the one from John last
| week. Someone should reply to this one. Over."
| nine_k wrote:
| Hear, hear. A real side project opportunity!
| MrGilbert wrote:
| It would require some APIs to be incorporated, and I'd really
| appreciate if that would be done locally, but... Sounds cool!
| mackopes wrote:
| Oh this would be awesome. For very long time I've been looking
| for an unintrusive way to receive important notifications on
| time. And since I almost always listen to music this would work
| well.
| xattt wrote:
| The search for a perfect notification system for a large org
| is like a chemical clock reaction, which swings back and
| forth between states of equilibrium.
|
| No one in an org will ever be on the same page, as people
| work on different tasks.
|
| Some tasks are repetitive and allow you to dip your attention
| in and out.
|
| Other tasks might require deep thought (like composition and
| putting words to a document) where your thoughts and output
| can't be mixed with the sound of others coming in.
|
| It works for truckers/pilots because the input/output by
| workers is relatively the same and compatible with background
| "noise", but this metaphor breaks down as soon as the type of
| work changes.
| 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.
| hackernewds wrote:
| Here is a similar deep dive into such an incident.
|
| https://fallows.substack.com/p/as-bad-as-it-gets-without-
| bod...
|
| These happen pretty often, and go unreported. So there's not
| much benefit in people finding out, on the downside there's
| bad PR.
| deepsun wrote:
| I do some minor piloting myself and I don't think those
| things go unreported often. Maybe uncontrollable dirt
| airports -- yes, sure.
|
| But in class Bravo, with hundreds of souls on board, when
| all transmissions are recorded and public, and multiple
| plane watchers listen to them in real time -- not a chance.
| 1659447091 wrote:
| They didn't take it away completely, but it's now at the flight
| crews discretion. You can kindly ask a flight attendant to ask
| the pilot if they will have channel 9 on or ask if they will.
|
| Found this about it[0], but there is still the occasional
| person asking about it on FF boards and the answer is still, to
| politely ask the FA about it
|
| [0] https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-channel-9-story/
| Justin_K wrote:
| I'll have to ask next time. That said the article is quite
| wrong in that you can't hear conversation in the cockpit,
| only conversation on the active frequency. You could never
| and probably will never hear pilot to copilot conversation.
| 1659447091 wrote:
| Guess I wasn't paying attention to it, I skimmed it since I
| fly United often and already knew what it actually was (not
| pilot conversation). Wasn't sure about posting a specific
| thread from www.flyertalk.com [0] probably should have just
| posted that. I dont usually have much luck with it, but I
| only remember half the time to ask.
|
| [0] https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-
| mileageplus/...
| mmaunder wrote:
| Know-it-all PPLs on the flight giving other passengers blow by
| blow commentary while critiquing the captain. That and not
| wanting pax to think about being in an aluminum tube traveling
| 0.7 Mach while in said tube.
| schoen wrote:
| I used to have some fear of flying, and listening to channel
| 9 helped me get over it, because I learned more about how
| safe and expected turbulence was, and how familiar everyone
| was with the various procedures and in-flight events.
|
| I'm not sure everyone would have the same reaction, but I
| found it very calming. Maybe the fact that people like to
| listen to ATC conversations in order to relax is a good sign
| for the likely effects on many passengers.
|
| It's true that you could occasionally learn about an error or
| a dangerous event that you wouldn't otherwise have been aware
| of at all, but I also think many passengers would be
| impressed by how professionally problems are usually handled.
| I've been on two flights that had to divert (for a bird
| strike and a passenger medical issue, respectively) and one
| flight that had a missed approach and go-around (in very high
| crosswinds), and, while none of them had channel 9, I'm quite
| confident that ATC was prepared to handle these situations
| and that many passengers would also have been impressed to
| have heard those conversations.
|
| I'm happy to admit that getting more information about what's
| going on wouldn't always be comfortable or reassuring to
| everyone, though.
| kayodelycaon wrote:
| Same here. I've watched a lot of air accident breakdowns
| and read more than a few NTSB reports. The way safety is a
| core of commercial aviation is just incredible and so far
| beyond everything I see in daily life. The way cars are
| handle is positively horrific.
| bragr wrote:
| 0.7 mach would be pretty slow for a commercial airliner these
| days. Mach 0.8-0.9 is typical now.
| omeid2 wrote:
| "Everyone" uses IATA, why use ICAO codes?
| Zeyka wrote:
| Iata codes are just used with passengers, icao codes are used
| for everything else.
| 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...
| samstave wrote:
| HAHA - I came here to say the same (I pay for it as well, and I
| love the flying fortress with radio chatter...
|
| I just spent some time adding layers of sound to the actual ATC
| chatter, then I add individual layers, like distant thunder,
| b29, singing bowls and rain etc...
|
| https://i.imgur.com/8jJkh1B.png
|
| Ill try to share an MP3...
| 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
| t0mas88 wrote:
| EHAM tower or the high speed ballet of the radar guys?
| 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:
| [flagged]
| deepsun wrote:
| I always had problems understanding what they say so quickly. Are
| there any voice recognition AIs that are trained on ATC voice
| data, with typical RF noise?
| woodson wrote:
| There are some projects, such as this one:
| https://github.com/idiap/w2v2-air-traffic
|
| They transcribed 5000 hours of ATC speech data (available for
| licensing, not free).
| 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
| humanizersequel wrote:
| And then other commenters, namely myself, actually read the TOS
| and realized that there's no reason to think that.
| 0xffff2 wrote:
| There's no reason not to think that either as far as I can
| see from that thread.
| humanizersequel wrote:
| Everything on that site is fine by the TOS so long as she
| had permission to use the streams. Since the site has been
| up for 2 years, I think it's pretty safe to assume she got
| permission.
| 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").
| Balgair wrote:
| I love lofi streams on YT. I especially love them combined with
| ambient nature bathing.
|
| Something about it is sad/nostalgic, for sure. But when you get
| that ambient nature bathing in there, it becomes, to me, more
| hopeful and ... healing, in a way. Nostalgia is still there,
| but more of the hopeful/relaxing vibes than the sad ones.
|
| I got way into them during lockdowns, obviously, but have kept
| it up. The trick is finding a real nature bathing track. Not
| just some soundboards that loop or are set at random. Real high
| quality audio from real places over hours of time are rare, but
| very worth it. My post history has more on the specific tracks
| I've found, with a few other commenters chipping in every once
| in a while.
|
| You get a bit more wanderlust, tempered by the lofi. It's a
| strange brew, but gets me through the days.
| 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".
| lostlogin wrote:
| I was way off track, Sorry.
| johnchristopher wrote:
| Well, you were not ! I didn't know about
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_from_Friends, I was
| thinking about that particular segment:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLa8Br569gA&t=90s (laugh
| track included).
| n1b0m wrote:
| How do air traffic controllers understand what's being said with
| all the static?
| someweirdperson wrote:
| Practice... getting used to. And in some cases better receivers
| than the one on someones private roof used to capture the
| transmissions for the stream.
| 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.
| varenc wrote:
| I noticed that the KLAX audio feed is in stereo and isolates the
| voice chatter to either the left or the right channel. Which
| might be confusing on headphones.
|
| I'm not sure how it's determined what audio goes to each channel
| but it seems very intentional. I'm guessing this is a way of
| listening to to multiple overlapping channels. Does anyone know
| more about this? Is separating radio chatter into distinct
| channels and listening over stereo something air traffic
| controllers do in practice or is that just for the benefit of
| this feed?
|
| p.s. here's just the KLAX feed without the lofi beats:
| https://s1-bos.liveatc.net/klax_twr
| FL410 wrote:
| Not sure if air traffic controllers do it but pilots do. Often
| will have one radio on in the left ear and another in the
| right. The newer audio panels will do "3d audio" so it's more
| spatial.
|
| When you have it this way, it's easier for your brain to ignore
| one when you are paying attention to the other.
| someweirdperson wrote:
| > Not sure if air traffic controllers do it but pilots do.
| Often will have one radio on in the left ear and another in
| the right.
|
| It sounds very general, that pilots do, and often. I guess it
| is missing a "some", "few", and/or "I" somewhere.
|
| Of all the various headset connectors [0], only redel/lemo
| and (probably) fischer are stereo. That's a very small part
| of the complete GA fleet, and likely even lower in commercial
| (if modern, using 5-pin XLR).
|
| edit: Looks like U174 is stereo, too.
|
| [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_headset_
| con...
| blt wrote:
| South tower (runways 25L & 25R) and North tower (runways 24L &
| 24R) are on different frequencies. On LiveATC you can listen to
| each tower individually.
| 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]
| molokow wrote:
| bernie sanders filibuster lofi:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6qy_9E0rY
| 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/
| timthorn wrote:
| I live at the start of the final approach path to one of the
| London airports, and used to live at an equivalent point for one
| of the others. I started to put together a site that combined ATC
| audio, ADS-B data and a live webcam - but then found it would be
| illegal to include the audio in the UK. :/
| 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
| WantonQuantum wrote:
| KiranRao0's point is that this will eventually fail:
|
| curl -L http://d.liveatc.net/klax_twr | ffmpeg -i -
| -filter:a atempo=0.5 -f s24le - | ffplay -f s24le -ar 8k
| -ac 2 -
|
| First, the pipe buffer between curl and ffmpeg will fill up
| (something like 64k) and then curl will be more and more
| delayed getting the next bit of audio from the server.
| Eventually the HTTP connection will fail. How and when that
| happens depends on exactly how the server is set up.
|
| On my machine (Ubuntu) it stops after about 15 minutes.
|
| You could increase the buffer size with pv or use a
| temporary file of course.
| 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
|
| (Edit: At KFNT, e.g., you'll find much less talk !)
| 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.
| ilikepi wrote:
| Maybe try the BBC shipping forecast?
|
| https://youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM
|
| I find the use of the Beaufort scale
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale) gives it a
| particularly dry flavor...
| hyperific wrote:
| Tycho worked weather reports into some of his songs and it
| added a nice texture but that's a fair point that the repeat
| cycle is too short for streaming music like this.
| hyperific wrote:
| https://www.weatherusa.net/radio
| alfred_joseph wrote:
| As soon as I started listening I heard about AS1412 making an
| emergency landing
| oakmad wrote:
| https://listentothe.cloud/ Is my favorite. There's something
| really soothing about certain regional accents and the rhythm of
| their comms. I really liked Hong Kong but it always seems to be
| offline now.
| 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.
| mdekkers wrote:
| I was just thinking exactly the same thing - this is nice, but
| _so_ distracting. I typically listen to the Lounge channel on
| DI.FM for happy chillout background vibes that don't distract
| 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.
| Metacelsus wrote:
| Same. That's why when I'm working, I listen to either classical
| music, or metal music where the words are unintelligible.
| nine_k wrote:
| Indeed, some classical choir parts apparently have highly
| significant lyrics, but even discerning words boundaries in
| these walls of sound is so hard that it does not trigger my
| comprehension.
| 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 :-)
| nine_k wrote:
| ...and it _also_ contains mysterious unholy-sounding
| incantations, like some kubectl command line full of literal
| hex.
| 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.
| nine_k wrote:
| It looks like working with text and listening to speech
| requires the same language-processing brain circuitry, and
| it's not optimized for parallel processing.
| imbnwa wrote:
| Late 10s Chillwave works for me though
| 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.
| nine_k wrote:
| Same here. Switching to Japanese helped, until I achieved a
| basic level of Japanese. This also killed Korean lyrics,
| because Korean _sounds_ similar enough to Japanese to
| trigger my attention, but I can 't understand a word! :-D
| 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/
| theK wrote:
| Soma is such a great station! If you are a Hardcore listener
| some channels might appear a bit repetitive from time to time
| but in my experience this self corrects over time.
| TigeriusKirk wrote:
| Are there any feeds of live current space mission audio?
| Sosh101 wrote:
| If you like soma, also check out blue mars:
| http://echoesofbluemars.org/
|
| edit: just been listening to that Apollo channel - fascinating
| recordings.
| SllX wrote:
| I didn't know I needed this in my life until now. Thanks!
| gokhan wrote:
| Also this
|
| https://listentothe.cloud/
| rafalages wrote:
| Has anyone found an airport from Brazil? I couldn't find any
| codes starting with SB.
| jconnop wrote:
| Don't think this site is including them, but you can listen to
| Brazil ATC here:
|
| https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=international-sa
| lispisok wrote:
| Being able to adjust the volume of the music and radio is an
| underrated and greatly appreciated feature. Great job whoever
| made this
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