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Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe

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

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Post by antihero »

owenmarshall wrote: post #54
tech-historian wrote: post #12

Great site! But as I clicked on music radio stations across the US, they were almost all broadcasting commercials at the time. Which is one of the fundamental problems with the format.

My vote, every time, has to be for WFMU. "The format", in 'FMUs case, is whatever the DJ likes to play. You may end up listening to an hour of funk, followed by an hour of experimental noise, then old '78s and bluegrass. It makes for a fun listen. https://wfmu.org/ - for a feel of programming, you can pick some of the DJs from here: http://www.wfmu.org/table

Another truly eclectic station is Radio Paradise. It's like a constant wandering journey with a great community.

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

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Post by kinow »

dijit wrote: post #85

I used this service a couple of years ago to listen to the local radio station from my home city. It's indescribable how homesick it made me, but at the same time I felt so much more connected to my home after hearing the local news, and my regional accent which is somewhat rare. for context; I'm British, from a city called Coventry (which does not have an accent similar its neighbours) and I live in Sweden, where ev…

Same here, was surprised to see so many radios from my city (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and from the country side too, where they have an accent similar to my father's family. Still use radio.garden weekly, great service.

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

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Post by knowuh »

chewz wrote: post #76
knowuh wrote: post #60

Is there an open directory of radio stream URIs? Like if I wanted to build my own tiny radio streaming client, where would I look for the streams? I tried snooping the network tab in dev tools on Radio Garden, but couldn't see many requests that weren't either grabbing map tiles, or connecting to Radio Garden itself.

http://www.radio-browser.info/

Thanks!
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