Comment by WD-42
6 days ago
Please give credit to SomaFM if you are going to use their steam.
They even have a similar station: https://somafm.com/sf1033/
But it’s the SFPD police scanner + chill beats instead of ATC.
6 days ago
Please give credit to SomaFM if you are going to use their steam.
They even have a similar station: https://somafm.com/sf1033/
But it’s the SFPD police scanner + chill beats instead of ATC.
Yea, they should at least get credit, if not an ongoing donation. AFAIK SomaFM runs entirely on user donations, so rebranding their service without even mentioning them seems kind of crass.
I present you Honest ChillyATC: https://honest-chillyatc.vercel.app/
Wow. I didn't know about this (or might have, as I an obsession with trying to hunt for interesting online tools/services/things, but had never tried). Thank you for mentioning it here! This is awesome. I am loving 'Suburbs of Goa' station. Will explore more.
Also check out http://di.fm - Goa out the up the wazoo. Other electronic music too.
Also their sister sites of Jazz or Rock are your thing, link on their home page somewhere.
oh wow, nice to see that Digitally Imported is still in business. I used to listen to them like 20 years ago when it was still possible to stream DI through WinAMP :)
Helped me get through University a lot
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I used to listen to Digitally Imported's Eurodance station a lot 10-15 years ago, but eventually it felt like I just kept hearing the same songs, that they never added any new music to it.
Thank you for introducing me to SomaFM... been online so long and never ran across this.
One of the greatest if not the best online radio stations of all time, in my opinion. Been listening for close to 20 years.
Nerd show Thursday night (8pst?) on Defcon radio is amazing.
I’ve been listening to SomaFM since 2000! Legendary station.
Don’t forget Mission Control also from SomaFM, ambient chill with space mission audio comms
https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol
Yep, I thought the same thing, and this slightly different URL used to give just the SFPD audio:
https://somafm.com/scanner/
I hope that props will be given to SomaFM for their stream and original idea.
There was this: https://www.lofiatc.com
However it is down.
havent all the PDs across the country switched to encrypted radio coms? and how is this supposed to be relaxing when you could hear a cop screaming for backup after being shot in his pelvis?
In SF, the initial dispatch is still in the clear. But a lot of EMS/Fire traffic is unencrypted, as is certain "event" radio traffic. The SF Police Commission doesn't want SF to have a totally encrypted radio system for accountability reasons.
Doesn't have to be getting shot, but I'd say that the probability of non-routine calls that could disrupt your focus is much greater for police radio then for ATC, so it's good that OP chose ATC instead...
You got it backwards, cops rarely ever get shot, its the cops doing the shooting of others. The vast majority of cop injuries are self-inflicted from trying to play out their action movie fantasies driving their cars recklessly and getting into accidents, with a few "They broke my hand with their face/skull" thrown in. And even then their injury rate is still significantly below regular blue collar workers.
Officers getting shot is super rare in SF.
South or Midwest is a different story, of course.
Its not different anywhere else. Cops getting shot in general is incredibly rare.
Done, credits are placed, revamped the stream a bit, should be more stable.
Thank you for contributing to the enshittication of the web. We keep our streams open so our listeners can easily and freely access us, unlike most other internet radio services. But if things like this get any traction, we're going to have to start restricting them.
We are paying for your little hobby. SomaFM pays close to $100k a year now on music royalties. We pay based on a per-listener, per-song basis. Sites like yours cost us money even when someone only checks it out for a few seconds.
SomaFM is a tiny organization, we're not some VC-funded startup.
What you're doing is exploiting us.
It's not cool.
Sure, I understand, it’s just proof of concept and I selected your platform as one of the best ones, I will pause the stream for now, is there anyway we could chat, if you’re willing to?
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