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Re: Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe

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Post by lcall »

zeisss wrote: post #29

All I want is an app that I can hotkey to my main (android) screen that starts a stream with an auto-sleep timer set to some value. I currently have to click like 6 times with various wait times to listen to my nightly "sleep time" stream. Any app recommendations?

I mention radiodroid elsewhere here: it has a sleep timer that defaults to the last one set, so you would have to tap first to start the app, then 2nd to start a station (at the top of your favorites), then the timer and ok, so that is 4 taps I guess.

Edit: and it seems, an alarm clock.

Re: Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe

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Post by jcun4128 »

aaadult wrote: post #40

When would you guys listen to radio ? And why not Spotify, podcast, YouTube etc ?

Haha I use YouTube as my music player or soundcloud/bandcamp

Podcasts are hard to listen to while writing code imo/same with new music I usually loop stuff I already know.

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Post by s1mon »

chrisseaton wrote: post #31
mark-ruwt wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a naming convention created in the early 1900s, using the Mississippi River as a rough line of delineation. Local TV stations use a similar convention. https://www.rd.com/culture/radio-stations-k-w/

Oh wow so they don't even stand for anything? Must be hard to brand an abbreviation you get handed!

You can request a call sign along with getting your license from the FCC. The process has changed over time, but many (most?) call signs have some sort of historical connection to something: e.g. KRON was broadcast from the SF Chronicle newspaper building, WRCT is Carnegie Mellon's University's station (originally Radio Carnegie Tech, from before it was CMU). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_signs_in_the_United_State...

Re: Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe

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Post by jasonv »

aaadult wrote: post #40

When would you guys listen to radio ? And why not Spotify, podcast, YouTube etc ?

I listen to international radio, mostly for countries where I have previously lived (a handful). I also listen to some online radio stations, particularly Radio Paradise and soma.fm .. I've donated to both in the past.

I have Spotify, and I have about 1500 artists that I follow, but even their algos keep feeding me the same stuff all the time. And there's no "flow" between songs in "Built for you" playlists (Youtube Music, as well).

And sometimes, for certain kinds of moods, I want to listen to music where I don't understand the lyrics. International radio is great for that, even when the DJs/announcers break in and talk.

That said, I never ever listen to real radio anymore, and I'd only really do that in my car. I move around the US West a lot, and updating my radio presets for the 3-4 locations I'm in frequently is harder to manage than online radio platform presets.

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Post by jabroni_salad »

aaadult wrote: post #40

When would you guys listen to radio ? And why not Spotify, podcast, YouTube etc ?

I think that there is something to be said about professionally curated music. Most terrestrial radio is irrelevant (in the US at least, thanks to ClearChannel) but I've been listening to SomaFM for awhile now and genre for genre I like it better than what any algorithm has put together.

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Post by richardfontana »

gbear605 wrote: post #38
chrisseaton wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh wow so they don't even stand for anything? Must be hard to brand an abbreviation you get handed!

The three latter letters are usually meaningful, but only barely. For example, there’s WGBH, a Boston public broadcasting station that stands for Great Blue Hills, which are the hills that the broadcasting antenna is located on.

Also related to the etymology of Massachusetts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts#Etymology

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Post by clan »

lcall wrote: post #13

There is also an app called "radiodroid" (or maybe it is "radiodroid2"; on the https://f-droid.org app store that says it builds all the apps from free/open source) which I have very much enjoyed for this. Unlike the other 1-2 internet radio apps I tried, this one made it easy to browse thousands of stations, search by tag (I guess everything is in there), language, country, etc etc, set bookmarks, list listening his…

Radiodroid 2 is also available in the Play store.

Thank you for that. Finally time to say goodbye to TuneIn.

Re: Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe

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Post by tartoran »

zeisss wrote: post #29

All I want is an app that I can hotkey to my main (android) screen that starts a stream with an auto-sleep timer set to some value. I currently have to click like 6 times with various wait times to listen to my nightly "sleep time" stream. Any app recommendations?

Without a timer, if your stream can be found in a url form just save a link on your homescreen. One click can start it.

For a one button solution with timer if no app is satisfactory you can build your script in Workflow (IOS) or any other automation tool on android. You might find a script already made on your liking.

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