WTUL's antenna is still down, so this could be useful for the NOLA area too.
Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations
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#42This is neat. I'm curious where you got the list of stations. I try to keep a list of them, as most of them accept indie music submissions.
I started with like 10 stations and then added them as people requested them. Got a ton of requests when I posted this on Reddit a while ago. Lmk if there are any stations you'd like to see on here!
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#43Really great work! It might also be cool to have a config that allows for non-cached streams; that way it would allow for "browsing" any of the available streams, rather than limiting to 10 pre-selected ones. I found that restriction to be a bit non-intuitive.
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#44Where are the European university stations?
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#45A UK (Scottish) one - http://uwsradio.co.uk/ - University of the West of Scotland Broadcasts online and in FM/DAB in the Ayrshire region of Scotland
My UK university was broadcasting it's Radio station online in 2000, and presumably before, it was a desktop (tower) linux PC taking the studio output and running (IIRC) Icecast off a massive 10M internet connection from the University IT department.
More impressive to me was the FM license, which allowed people to pick up the station within about a mile of the campus.
I think there's still something to be said for the effort which goes into proper radio station - the scheduling, actually turning up to broadcast the (live) programs at a specific time, phone ins, news segments, etc, and the organisational skills to get 50 or so people working together on a single project.
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#46Love this. Curious how you chose the default 8 stations? This is obviously super nitpicky but WERS deserves the Boston spot over WHRB IMO. Yeah, Emerson isn't exactly a powerhouse school, but their radio station is a legitimate player in a major radio market in a way that most college radio stations (Harvard's included) aren't. Definitely more important in Boston than WHRB is. That aside, I'll two stations to your li…
WERS is easily my favorite station in the area; and over the past year it's given me The Beths, Lake Street Dive, and Wet Leg. Absolutely worth a listen.
Re: Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations
#47Love this. Curious how you chose the default 8 stations? This is obviously super nitpicky but WERS deserves the Boston spot over WHRB IMO. Yeah, Emerson isn't exactly a powerhouse school, but their radio station is a legitimate player in a major radio market in a way that most college radio stations (Harvard's included) aren't. Definitely more important in Boston than WHRB is. That aside, I'll two stations to your li…
WERS is easily my favorite station in the area; and over the past year it's given me The Beths, Lake Street Dive, and Wet Leg. Absolutely worth a listen.
Boston really is a city of riches in terms of college radio, and each one has its own appeal.
WERS has professional-level radio production, solid music that has broad appeal without being "mainstream". Emerson is one of the few schools I know of where some people will go to the school specifically for the radio station. It's why they have such a large, consistent listnership.
WMBR's DJs are fantastic. The station itself definitely has a more college feel but it's still very well-produced and the station itself seems to be really good at playing obscure tunes, especially in the psych/garage/punk/shoegaze realm. There's a distinct sort of sound I expect with them that almost reminds me of WFMU where I grew up, which is high praise.
WHRB tends to favor classical and jazz more than the other schools' stations because they dedicate large blocs of time to those genres
And then there's my WRBB. We sometimes had some gaps in production (depending on who was DJing) but it's still a great listen since there tends to be a wider range of tunes that come through the station. It also helped that many of our DJs were stalwarts of the local DIY music scene, so we gave airtime to a lot of small local artists that might not have a ton of promotion otherwise.
Personally, I'll always have a soft spot for WRBB owing to my time there but really you can't go wrong with any of these.
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#48Great work! Super fast and smooth interface. Curious how you built it!
I also suggest adding WGBH Boston - 89.7 MHz https://www.wgbh.org/Radio
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#49This is awesome! I love all the logos. A few more if you want to add - WUSB https://www.wusb.fm/ WSOU https://www.wsou.net/ WNYU https://wnyu.org/ WKCR https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/
I was happy to see KTRU (Rice) is available.
I used to listen to that all the time growing up in Houston. The blues show was excellent.
Re: Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations
#50Really great work! It might also be cool to have a config that allows for non-cached streams; that way it would allow for "browsing" any of the available streams, rather than limiting to 10 pre-selected ones. I found that restriction to be a bit non-intuitive.
Yep, getting a bunch of comments about the station selection UI (also I can tell from the engagement stats that not a ton of people are successfully swapping out stations). I'm gonna think about how to make this more intuitive in the coming days. Thanks for the feedback!