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Re: Radio Garden

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Post by specialist »

gala8y wrote: post #16
knodi123 wrote: post #5

It was a challenge finding something truly foreign. I just kept stumbling across america's best hits of the 80s and 90s, all across the globe. With a steady helping of generic euro-pop. But some revival preaching in africa really felt like visiting a foreign place, as did some cape town talk radio. Obviously the islamic world has a very different playlist, so that was a gimme. What a neat concept!

"(...) Get into the water, let is splash across your face. Don't you loose your party, don't you loose your faith (...)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Vtg2Oc4IU

Perfect. Thank you. I needed this today. I loved ONE, back in the day.

Have you heard of Lyrics Born? Hearing this track again makes me wonder about their respective influences.

Re: Radio Garden

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Post by atlas_hugged »

knodi123 wrote: post #5

It was a challenge finding something truly foreign. I just kept stumbling across america's best hits of the 80s and 90s, all across the globe. With a steady helping of generic euro-pop. But some revival preaching in africa really felt like visiting a foreign place, as did some cape town talk radio. Obviously the islamic world has a very different playlist, so that was a gimme. What a neat concept!

Nigeria has lots of good stuff

Re: Radio Garden

#43

Post by dreadnaut »

When this first came out I retrieved the list of stations (around 20k, I think it was just a JSON file), converted it to .m3u8, and I have since used it as a playlist for WinAmp. It's playing one of those streams right now, using 4MB of memory and practically no CPU.

Over the years, several streams (or the station themselves unfortunately) have gone offline. To refresh my list I'd have to scrape the "globe", and it doesn't feel like the right thing to do.

Has anyone encountered a similar website, but with a simple list of public streams?

Re: Radio Garden

#44

Post by gala8y »

vishnugupta wrote: post #19
gala8y wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was first time in Paris, me and friends were blown away by the sheer number of stations and good, rave-class, electronic music on the waves. We used to wander around the city with walkman's on. Sounds weird... good times. Also, when I was a small kid, used to go to the furthest room in the house, close the door and lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW. The further, the better. Rad…

> when I was a small kid .. lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW. I’m long past being a kid and I still do this

That's cool... I would have a hard time finding a radio-set around, though. Few months ago I spent half of a night watching video streams from tokyo public transit stations, so I guess kid inside is doing fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829061 https://minitokyo3d.com/

Re: Radio Garden

#45

Post by Stratoscope »

gala8y wrote: post #17
knodi123 wrote: post #5

It was a challenge finding something truly foreign. I just kept stumbling across america's best hits of the 80s and 90s, all across the globe. With a steady helping of generic euro-pop. But some revival preaching in africa really felt like visiting a foreign place, as did some cape town talk radio. Obviously the islamic world has a very different playlist, so that was a gimme. What a neat concept!

When I was first time in Paris, me and friends were blown away by the sheer number of stations and good, rave-class, electronic music on the waves. We used to wander around the city with walkman's on. Sounds weird... good times. Also, when I was a small kid, used to go to the furthest room in the house, close the door and lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW. The further, the better. Rad…

> lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW.

You were probably listening to shortwave stations, not longwave. Most international broadcasting was done in the shortwave bands, typically in the range of 3 MHz (100 meter wavelength) to 30 MHz (10 meter wavelength).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave

Re: Radio Garden

#46

Post by gala8y »

specialist wrote: post #41
gala8y wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"(...) Get into the water, let is splash across your face. Don't you loose your party, don't you loose your faith (...)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Vtg2Oc4IU

Perfect. Thank you. I needed this today. I loved ONE , back in the day. Have you heard of Lyrics Born? Hearing this track again makes me wonder about their respective influences.

Cool, really happy you like it. I can't decipher/find ONE/Born, thou.

Re: Radio Garden

#47

Post by gala8y »

Stratoscope wrote: post #45
gala8y wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was first time in Paris, me and friends were blown away by the sheer number of stations and good, rave-class, electronic music on the waves. We used to wander around the city with walkman's on. Sounds weird... good times. Also, when I was a small kid, used to go to the furthest room in the house, close the door and lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW. The further, the better. Rad…

> lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW. You were probably listening to shortwave stations, not longwave. Most international broadcasting was done in the shortwave bands, typically in the range of 3 MHz (100 meter wavelength) to 30 MHz (10 meter wavelength). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave

You are right. Short waves, tiny move and you are on another station.

Re: Radio Garden

#48

Post by dijit »

I'd like to just give some thanks to the author; I use this sometimes when I'm feeling homesick to hear my old local radio stations in the UK. It really quells the feeling of disconnect I sometimes feel to my homeland and gives me comfort when I feel wayward in my spirit.

Re: Radio Garden

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Post by czottmann »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #4

Why did I listen to a Lowe's commercial on a radio station from Port Mathurin? For reference, an island in the middle of nowhere in the Indian Ocean: https://radio.garden/visit/accacia/Y2DoPxzU My guess is they are just streaming spotify on some VPN with a stolen account that puts them in Florida.

I've heard a lot of German ads on Nigerian stations. Turns out they were all served by zeno.fm ("The easiest way to create and listen to radio stations and podcasts") which seems to proxy local stations, making money from cramming ads into the streams.

Re: Radio Garden

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Post by [deleted] »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #4

Why did I listen to a Lowe's commercial on a radio station from Port Mathurin? For reference, an island in the middle of nowhere in the Indian Ocean: https://radio.garden/visit/accacia/Y2DoPxzU My guess is they are just streaming spotify on some VPN with a stolen account that puts them in Florida.

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