Comment by cobbzilla
12 hours ago
Similar experience and I would never trade it in a lifetime.
For the “me” today, new music discovery is all about live radio. and I don’t mean pop/satellite/corporate programmed radio. I mean radio where a human still cares.
I mostly use radio.garden (sometimes TuneIn) and find crazy local stations around the world.
K-Pop from Seoul, Parisian hiphop, live EDM from clubs in Ibiza, weird/fun island music from the remote pacific, random college radio. It’s all out there, live, amazing!
when I hear something I like, I “shazam” it, then add it to my library later. and I’m always smiling when shazam can’t find any match.
Can I offer you a SomaFM[0] in these trying times?
They're entirely listener supported and the music they play is - to my knowledge - entirely human curated. I've found many tracks and artists new to me, with some artists not even having a presence (or a very small one) on Spotify.
Their curation is so good that they've become a significant resource I go to when seeking out new music. It feels like a warm hug from people who probably were also users of what.cd back in the day. Some of the humans who make up their team are the ones who play the music at DEF CON each year, so I take that as a good endorsement that they are well equipped to have good taste and be fellow music nerds - a compliment of the highest regard.
They're worth your time (and money, should you choose to donate).
[0] https://somafm.com/
+1 good call out. Definitely I love some SomaFM stations!
love me some SomaFM. even paid for their deliberately overpriced tshirt and stickers to support them + occasional donations.
radio.garden (and many others) got neutered in the UK courts by Sony. Offensive, short-sighted, Balkanizing decision.
I haven't bought a Sony product since the rootkit debacle. My only regret is that there's not a "boycott++" mode for the damage they did with that decision.
Add the following line to ublock origin in "My filters" & make sure the "Enable my custom filters" option box is checked to get around this:
https://radio.garden/api/geo
!!!!!!
Made. My. Day.
> radio.garden (and many others) got neutered in the UK courts by Sony
Do tell more, I’m very curious— am I unaffected in the US? I haven’t noticed a big change in the past several years. What happened?
Can't find a good summary link. Maybe this one https://www.rpclegal.com/thinking/entertainment/court-of-app... is a good starting point.
radio.garden feels like spinning an AM radio dial late at night (which is how I discovered John Peel as a youngling). It's a lovely thing, verging on art, and should be treasured.
It seems that radio stations outside the UK cannot be listened to, can you listen to any stations outside your country?
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Live radio has that someone is actually there feeling that playlists never really have