[HN Gopher] Radio Garden
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Radio Garden
Author : peterburkimsher
Score : 249 points
Date : 2024-07-06 00:47 UTC (22 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (radio.garden)
(TXT) w3m dump (radio.garden)
| mitchbob wrote:
| Discussed previously (123 comments):
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771
| gaudystead wrote:
| I love this website! Also, if you like this site, be sure to
| check out radiooooo.com for a similar premise, but with more of a
| historical aspect. I'll additionally plug everynoise.com solely
| because it has every genre of music you've ever heard of, and
| then thousands more!
|
| Both sites ( _and_ radio.garden) are great for finding new music.
| IncreasePosts wrote:
| Why did I listen to a Lowe's commercial on a radio station from
| Port Mathurin? For reference, an island in the middle of nowhere
| in the Indian Ocean: https://radio.garden/visit/accacia/Y2DoPxzU
|
| My guess is they are just streaming spotify on some VPN with a
| stolen account that puts them in Florida.
| qxxx wrote:
| I am in Germany, I hear German ads there.
| RecycledEle wrote:
| I hear English language ads while listening from Texas.
|
| It seems they embed ads from out local areas to make money.
|
| You will see the timer stop when the ad is playing.
| czottmann wrote:
| I've heard a lot of German ads on Nigerian stations. Turns out
| they were all served by zeno.fm ("The easiest way to create and
| listen to radio stations and podcasts") which seems to proxy
| local stations, making money from cramming ads into the
| streams.
| knodi123 wrote:
| It was a challenge finding something truly foreign. I just kept
| stumbling across america's best hits of the 80s and 90s, all
| across the globe. With a steady helping of generic euro-pop.
|
| But some revival preaching in africa really felt like visiting a
| foreign place, as did some cape town talk radio. Obviously the
| islamic world has a very different playlist, so that was a gimme.
| What a neat concept!
| gala8y wrote:
| "(...) Get into the water, let is splash across your face.
| Don't you loose your party, don't you loose your faith (...)"
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Vtg2Oc4IU
| specialist wrote:
| Perfect. Thank you. I needed this today. I loved _ONE_ , back
| in the day.
|
| Have you heard of Lyrics Born? Hearing this track again makes
| me wonder about their respective influences.
| gala8y wrote:
| Cool, really happy you like it. I can't decipher/find
| ONE/Born, thou.
| specialist wrote:
| Debut single:
|
| Lyrics Born - Calling Out
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kV6TRs8PU
|
| Um. Just did a quick stroll down memory lane. Ya. Me Phi
| Me's album ONE hasn't exactly held up well... So here's
| another movie soundtrack single that I still enjoy:
|
| Me Phi Me ft Jeriko One - Here We Come
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQsmJif3RTA
| gala8y wrote:
| When I was first time in Paris, me and friends were blown away
| by the sheer number of stations and good, rave-class,
| electronic music on the waves. We used to wander around the
| city with walkman's on. Sounds weird... good times.
|
| Also, when I was a small kid, used to go to the furthest room
| in the house, close the door and lay down with small, pocket
| radio, catching foreign stations on LW. The further, the
| better.
|
| Radio rocks. Great mash-up.
| vishnugupta wrote:
| > when I was a small kid .. lay down with small, pocket
| radio, catching foreign stations on LW.
|
| I'm long past being a kid and I still do this
| gala8y wrote:
| That's cool... I would have a hard time finding a radio-set
| around, though. Few months ago I spent half of a night
| watching video streams from tokyo public transit stations,
| so I guess kid inside is doing fine.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829061
| https://minitokyo3d.com/
| Stratoscope wrote:
| > _lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign
| stations on LW._
|
| You were probably listening to shortwave stations, not
| longwave. Most international broadcasting was done in the
| shortwave bands, typically in the range of 3 MHz (100 meter
| wavelength) to 30 MHz (10 meter wavelength).
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave
| gala8y wrote:
| You are right. Short waves, tiny move and you are on
| another station.
| tristramb wrote:
| Try Finland.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Here I was expecting Finn Tango and I landed on a chiptune
| station...
| atlas_hugged wrote:
| Nigeria has lots of good stuff
| eigenqwertz wrote:
| In a similar vein: Shirley and Spinoza - https://compound-
| eye.org/
|
| Wonderful random sounds from all over the place
| mmmnnn wrote:
| can you believe i've found this just on pure luck, trying to
| listen to exotic asian sounds? it's really isolated as a
| location. it's one of my favs
| rurban wrote:
| I once had a little radio show (10 episodes or so) exploring
| radio garden. I picked some, contacted them for permission,
| talked a bit and was happy. South American classic music
| (Strawinsky!) vs Korean classic music (way too much Austrian
| influence, boring), KTRU Houston vs WFMU Jersey, Rwanda free
| radio as classic example of inciting genocide, lots of
| interesting history bits.
| butz wrote:
| It would be great to have some radio static playing when
| switching radio stations.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| Ah! It is its time to be submitted again. I remember submitting
| it when I found it a few years back. This pops up once a while
| (seeing a pattern here) and people loving it.
|
| 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058
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| 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427701
|
| 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771
|
| 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441847
| Unbefleckt wrote:
| If you're in the UK don't bother downloading for the full
| experience, it still won't let you listen to anything outside of
| the UK.
| FerretFred wrote:
| Came here to say that! It's a nice app and very innovative, but
| if I have fire up a f*** VPN every time I want to listen to
| stations outside the UK, forget it!
|
| I don't think the developers care either: I've emailed numerous
| times without an answer, and even less-than-favourable reviews
| on the App Store failed to elicit a response. At least tell us
| the reason for the UK- hatred if you're not going to fix it?!
| bix6 wrote:
| It's a copyright issue.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Garden
|
| "unfortunately the restriction must be extended for an
| indefinite period due to copyright and neighbouring rights
| related matters that require clarification. "
| dwroberts wrote:
| (Edited from original comment): Found the actual cause of
| the problem: https://mediawrites.law/wp-
| content/uploads/2019/11/judgment....
|
| Just like TuneIn, they are behaving like a broadcaster and
| aren't paying license fees, so I guess they are afraid of
| similar legal action
| zarzavat wrote:
| Not sure if it's still true but you can disable the check
| very easily using devtools. No need for a VPN.
| kreetx wrote:
| Do you happen to know, why are they not using TLS?
| K7PJP wrote:
| "Our original configuration was fully HTTPS-enabled;
| however, we had to adjust this when browser manufacturers
| started blocking HTTPS websites from loading HTTP streams.
|
| Approximately 20% of the stations featured on Radio Garden
| are accessible via HTTP streams, which would become
| inaccessible if we switched entirely to HTTPS. Given the
| recent changes in Chrome's behavior towards forcing an
| HTTPS connection, we are considering moving back to an all-
| HTTPS setup in the near future."
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/RadioGarden/s/0FByul10C0
| tristramb wrote:
| Try Tor browser
| tempodox wrote:
| Being able to pick radio stations by geolocation is a really nice
| feature. I can go explore the world! But then it's a bit
| disappointing how similar many stations sound, no matter where
| they are.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| One of my vague project plans is to convert a world globe so when
| you touch a location it plays the radio from there.
|
| Like this site but in real life.
| assimpleaspossi wrote:
| What is the point of this? Why is it here? Is there something
| special going on?
|
| So many links to web sites happen where one has no clue why it is
| posted or what it does.
| dinkleberg wrote:
| Have you tried using it?
| assimpleaspossi wrote:
| Yes but my point is that you need to use it to initially find
| out anything about it. What does it do?
|
| Then I question what this does that a simple Google search
| can't (find local radio stations that play online).
| Waterluvian wrote:
| How exactly was this made? Are online radio streams just so
| guaranteed to be a consistent, open API for use?
|
| It feels like it would be ridiculously tedious if there were a
| thousand different ways stations might set up their stream.
| zombiemama wrote:
| In station submission form there's a stream URL field with
| following restrictions:
|
| The stream may be submitted in MP3, AAC, M3U or PLS format, and
| must be online 24/7. Please enter a secure HTTPS url if you
| have one.
| bix6 wrote:
| Favorite stations?
|
| Couple of mine: Hip hop lounge in DC, zootopia Stanford, alpha
| boys Kingston, Kauai community, soggy dollar BVI, smooth jazz NY
| zombiemama wrote:
| 1. Radio Student Ljubljana - public radio, est. 1969 -
| https://radio.garden/listen/radio-student-fm-89-3/H12zH5Xj
|
| 2. KFFP Freeform Portland - https://radio.garden/listen/kffp-
| freeform-portland/wgDi5KFv
|
| 3. Radio Gugelhopf from Zurich - internet radio -
| https://radio.garden/listen/radio-gugelhopf/q4oFNLjR
| IAmGraydon wrote:
| When I think of the far reaches of Siberia, I don't really think
| of people blasting upbeat euro techno, but there you have it.
| LastTrain wrote:
| It's a small world
| coreyhn wrote:
| This is really fun! Reminds me of early internet days when there
| was fun discovery sites like this.
| grandchild wrote:
| It's a bit like the radio version of http://astronaut.io :)
| dreadnaut wrote:
| When this first came out I retrieved the list of stations (around
| 20k, I think it was just a JSON file), converted it to .m3u8, and
| I have since used it as a playlist for WinAmp. It's playing one
| of those streams right now, using 4MB of memory and practically
| no CPU.
|
| Over the years, several streams (or the station themselves
| unfortunately) have gone offline. To refresh my list I'd have to
| scrape the "globe", and it doesn't feel like the right thing to
| do.
|
| Has anyone encountered a similar website, but with a simple list
| of public streams?
| thatloststudent wrote:
| You should be able to do this with radio-browser.info [1].
| Specifically, look at the documentation that lists all
| stations.
|
| [1] - https://de1.api.radio-browser.info/#General
| lioeters wrote:
| Direct link to a JSON file with ~50k Internet radio stations.
|
| http://de1.api.radio-browser.info/json/stations
|
| > Everyone is free to use the collected data (station names,
| tags, links to stream, links to homepages, language, country,
| state) in their works. I give all the rights I have at the
| accumulated data to the public domain.
|
| https://www.radio-browser.info/
| dijit wrote:
| I'd like to just give some thanks to the author; I use this
| sometimes when I'm feeling homesick to hear my old local radio
| stations in the UK. It really quells the feeling of disconnect I
| sometimes feel to my homeland and gives me comfort when I feel
| wayward in my spirit.
| dylan604 wrote:
| This is an interesting comment in that the stations in my home
| town are no longer the same. Clear Channel has come in bought
| up all (only a slight exaggeration) of the stations. The
| stations I listened to as a kid are no longer around, and some
| of the stations that are still on the air are different
| formats. If child me were to listen to radio today, nothing
| would be recognizable
| dijit wrote:
| largely this is true for me, with the exception of Heart FM
| and BBC.
|
| However the UK has strong regional accents (especially in
| ads) and local radio tends to reflect that, which makes me
| feel like home.
| alabhyajindal wrote:
| Beautifully done!
| AstroJetson wrote:
| Shout out to my local school district's radio station
|
| https://radio.garden/visit/wilmington-de/IgIAlhdo
|
| WMPH.net 91.7Mhz FM They play everything from Big Band to Taylor
| Swift (sometimes even back to back). Give a listen, if nothing
| else they will go "Wow people from around the world listen to
| us!"
| zoogeny wrote:
| It went straight to my local radio station and I listened for 2
| minutes straight of ads! It was actually kind of weird to hear
| ads for local businesses, like the pub just down the road.
| cactusplant7374 wrote:
| This is really cool. My wife and I spent a few months in Merida,
| MX. Great to listen to music broadcast from there. A great city
| with a few disadvantages. ;)
| smusamashah wrote:
| This also reminds of WebSDR online radio which you can tune just
| like a real radio
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| http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
|
| There are many of these radios though
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| http://websdr.org/
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| http://kiwisdr.com/public/
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