This is so cool. Love it.
Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe
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#112Recently, a user posted on my problem validation platform that she's unable to listen to radio from her home town (possibly rural India) from a foreign country[1].
Setting up SDR for this seems to be beyond the capacity of that user. Sites like these might address this need gap, if they allow the user to tune to specific frequency rather than being limited to particular stations[I understand that this has larger technical overhead].
P.S I checked the Radio Garden, it GeoIP's some stations, there were no prominent stations, mostly comprised of religious stations and couple of unknown hobby stations.
[1]https://needgap.com/problems/126-listening-to-obscure-intern...
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#113Very cool. Never seen anything like this, though they may exist. Well done
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#114I have nothing to add to the discussion but this so cool :D
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#115I have used it for a while now, thanks for the work put in it! I would love to have some sleep timer added to it.
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#116Earlier 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!
It seems to go in both directions: you can ask for one that has some meaning to you (which you can then potentially get if no one is using it), or you can try to make up a backronym. I don't remember good backronym examples but I know they exist. The stations will also vary in whether they prefer for people to pronounce the whole callsign, or just part of it, or spell it out. (Technically I think the callsign is always spelled out when used as a callsign, but not necessarily when used as a brand.)
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#117So how are all these radio stations connected to the Internet? Do all these radio stations have a server? Or is there some organization which does the broadcasting on behalf? Who pays for the streaming fees? Can I start my own station?
If you're willing to ignore legacy clients, you can use HTTP streaming with MPEG-DASH or HLS. These protocols chunk the stream into individual audio files of a few seconds each, which can be served from a normal HTTP server or even an S3 bucket with CloudFlare. The protocol allows better quality codecs than Shoutcast, handles dynamic bitrates, and even lets you rewind live streams. There are open source player libraries which work in all modern browsers, and some support them natively too.
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#118For 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.
You're probably aware but I will just report it anyway.
On that link (https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/), there doesn't seem to be a lower bound limit on the 'polar angle' rotation. So I am able to rotate below the 'horizon' and look up to the earth's 'inner surface' (the concave side of the mesh). The trajectories dashed lines are still rendered and drawn on top of the earth's 'bottom' but are all glitchy and intermitent.
This maybe an issue with this specific implementation and not cesium itself but just thought you should know.
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#119If you like this to explore music of other places, try also https://radiooooo.com/ to travel through time and space. Mentioned here a few times ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... )
This one: http://www.lightyear.fm/ is a neat visualization of the "radio bubble" around Earth about 110 light years in diameter (edit: radius).
I just got rick-rolled at 30LY.
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#120There 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.
FYI: RadioDroid 2 from F-Droid does not support Chromecast. RadioDroid 2 from Google Playstore supports Chromecast..