Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by OmarShehata » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 11:25 PM UTC

For anyone who's curious - this is built with CesiumJS (https://cesium.com/), same as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037167

Disclaimer: I work for Cesium.

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

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Post by dayofthedaleks » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 11:28 PM UTC

If you’d like something a bit more curated, WFMU has a show called “The Blind Tourist” which is mostly audio collage from various global radio stations.

https://wfmu.org/playlists/TX All shows are archived and streamable for free.

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

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Post by matmann2001 » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 11:58 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #19

matmann2001 wrote: post #16

You put radio... on the internet.

I think many people already listen to radio over the internet.

Just trying to make a reference to Silicon Valley (TV show).

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

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Post by quickthrower2 » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 12:29 AM UTC

Spot on. A HN show that might actually use every day!

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

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Post by thecleaner » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

Any good recommendations on which cities ahve great radio ? I mostly stick to London and surroudning area.

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

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Post by dunnevens » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 2:09 AM UTC

aaadult wrote: post #40

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

I especially like radio for video games. Certain games really lend themselves to it. Like Euro Truck Simulator. Driving a lorry around Sweden, making deliveries while listening to local radio, makes for quite an immersive experience.

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

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Post by tgtweak » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 2:37 AM UTC

Someone needs to make this for DTV...

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

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Post by Azametzin » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:00 AM UTC

This is great. For years I have been exploring radios around. Sometimes I add radios from my region to Radio Garden. Just send it through their form and wait to be accepted. I just wish it was easier to export their favorites. I once lost a good list of saved radios.

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

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Post by noisy_boy » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:05 AM UTC

Awesome. Feature request: show tooltip showing station name/location on hover so that I don't need to change location to get station info.

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

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Post by rootbear » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:17 AM UTC

oplav wrote: post #11

rootbear wrote: post #9

I came across this a while back and had hours of fun randomly sampling radio stations around the world. The one feature I wish it had was the ability to "lock" the current station while still being able to wander around looking for another station to try

There's a "Lock" button right above the zoom in/out buttons that does this.

Thanks! That's new, I haven't used Radio Garden in months and the previous version didn't have that.