[HN Gopher] Show HN: Air Traffic Control Radio and Chill Music f...
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Show HN: Air Traffic Control Radio and Chill Music for Focus
Author : usernameis42
Score : 43 points
Date : 2025-02-16 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.chillyatc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.chillyatc.com)
| Willingham wrote:
| They speak a seemingly different language to the untrained ear,
| here is a good reference to better understand their shorthand and
| phraseology:
| https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
| ASinclair wrote:
| So it's like youarelistening.to but for ATC?
| usernameis42 wrote:
| Yes, it's kinda same, ATC communications have a specific rhythm
| and cadence, the speech is professional, neutral, and
| emotionally detached, combination with ambient music creates an
| audio cocoon that helps easily get into flow state and increase
| your productivity
| tallmansixfour wrote:
| Not working for me. Switched to Toronto not connecting either
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| sandblast wrote:
| Did you enable the toggle in the "Audio Controls" section?
| That's what got me at first.
| enjaydee wrote:
| That's some strange UX! Usually a drop down without a button
| would be associated with an affirmative choice in this day
| and age.
| sandblast wrote:
| I agree, I would add a default "nothing" entry in the drop
| down and enable both ATC feed and the music when an option
| is clicked.
| usernameis42 wrote:
| Will try to enhance that one, thanks for sharing feedback
| enjaydee wrote:
| That or move the toggle up closer to the drop down,
| though then you have to consider moving the volume slider
| usernameis42 wrote:
| Probably network issues? Have you tried wifi or other network?
| Yes, also make sure all toggles are on :)
| eamag wrote:
| Pretty cool! I remember there was https://www.lofiatc.com/ but
| looks like it got blocked?
| usernameis42 wrote:
| Yes, lofiatc is not available at the moment
| LightMorpheus wrote:
| Yeah, I used to use LoFi ATC, but it stopped working. Built
| something to scratch the itch: https://tonygaeta.com/labs/atc-
| lofi. OP's design is solid--great site with good options.
| d1sxeyes wrote:
| Any idea why only a handful of airports can be selected?
| usernameis42 wrote:
| I could add some more, there is feedback form on the page,
| feel free to make a request or ask questions
| sandblast wrote:
| Don't get me wrong, but I think this is a perfectly good
| place for a feedback, since you made the Show HN post.
| There is no need to redirect users to Google Forms.
| cmpaul wrote:
| This is awesome. Where do you get this music stream?
| enjaydee wrote:
| It just loads this https://somafm.com/groovesalad/
| netsharc wrote:
| Hopefully OP is going to give them some (a lot of?) money,
| considering there's a promiment link to Product Hunt that
| says "Launching soon", and nothing on today's Internet is
| made just for fun anymore, but for $$$$.
|
| Oh yeah the ATC radio is also directly from liveatc.net
| servers, which says on their site: "NOTICE: Third-party use
| of LiveATC live audio streams is prohibited." and this site
| probably violates many points on
| https://www.liveatc.net/legal/ (unless, OP did get their
| permission to do this...).
| MrMcCall wrote:
| Congratulations. That is very well done, indeed, and the music
| selection is right up my alley.
|
| (FYI: Working on Ubuntu with standard Firefox, no problems at
| all.)
|
| Thanks for this, whoever you are :-)
|
| Will try to slide you some cash, when possible. You have made my
| day brighter, friend. Love and peace to you.
| sandblast wrote:
| The music selection is indeed quite good, but I would try to
| make sure that there are no vocals in the music -- those
| overlap with ATC too unpleasantly for me.
| usernameis42 wrote:
| Glad to hear that, really appreciate that I made your day
| brighter! Love and peace!
| MrMcCall wrote:
| Quick request: Could you add a toggle for the cloud
| animation? I like to keep my processors cool :-)
| creaktive wrote:
| OP will ask you to use Google Contact Form :)
| aerostable_slug wrote:
| Slide a little support to SomaFM - that's where the music is
| coming from.
| sandblast wrote:
| I would add a toggle for disabling the clouds animation. It
| wastes a lot of CPU cycles for me.
| usernameis42 wrote:
| Sure, will consider this and implement soon, thanks for
| sharing!
| pcdoodle wrote:
| Was going to say the same. Very cool concept, thank you.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| Also consider disabling it by default for the `@media
| (prefers-reduced-motion)` CSS query.
| gatienboquet wrote:
| It's me or it's very slow on edge ?
| usernameis42 wrote:
| Will check that as well, there is feedback form in the footer,
| if anyone has some suggestions please share it there, thank
| you!
| reaperducer wrote:
| Very similar to the Scanner Grannies of the last century.
|
| Back before talk radio was everywhere, old ladies would put on a
| scanner in the kitchen and leave it on for days, weeks, years
| just for company.
|
| Sometimes they'd put on the local easy listening station at the
| same time to fill in the gaps between scanner traffic.
| sandblast wrote:
| Thanks for this term, that's quite interesting! But it's kind
| of strange that this turns up only in 5 Google results.
| reaperducer wrote:
| This was in the world before there was a Google.
|
| I was a journalist, and scanner grannies regularly called the
| assignment desk to make sure we hadn't missed something they
| heard.
| gatienboquet wrote:
| My 8cores CPU goes to 99% when i visit your website. There's
| something wrong.
| usernameis42 wrote:
| Probably cloud animations, will make a fix for that one.
| enjaydee wrote:
| This appears to be
|
| SomaFM https://somafm.com/groovesalad/
|
| plus
|
| LiveATC https://www.liveatc.net
| sandblast wrote:
| Ah, that explains the good music selection!
| pugets wrote:
| When I turned on the music and chatter, the first audio that
| played was of a chimpanzee wildly shrieking for about 2 seconds.
| The song which played after was "Sonargaon" by Daniel Masson,
| which as far as I can tell does not include that audio. Maybe
| someone at the KSFO Tower was having a bad day. Very funny.
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