big thank you to somafm!! sidetracking a little here but a good one for idm is https://verdure.net/
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#112Really impressive that they've stayed online nearly 20 years. I used to listen to this and MonkeyRadio all the time. They've added a lot of new channels though.
Me too.. monkey radio was really great!
https://web.archive.org/web/20040622004325/http://www.monkey...
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#113God I miss Tag's trance trip. (@tagloomis) https://twitter.com/tagloomis eventually merged with soma but its not the same as it used to be. Now its called the trip.
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#114Wow, I haven't heard this name for a while. I switched from Soma to DI.FM years and years ago mostly because I was super active on DI's forums and they used to stream my mixes. Glad to see it's still around. It's definitely a gem from the old days of internet.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
To each their own, I guess. I also pay for Apple Music and have access to all that music, but there is no substitute for curation with a sense of taste and musical direction. For me, having access to all the music in the world is only marginally better than what I had before when buying CDs (or records even); I don't listen to more music than before. What I really love, instead, is being introduced to a new track tha…
To be honest, Pandora has served that role for me over the years. I am always amazed to look back at my Pandora station history to see how it has evolved into different streams/genres, all stimulated from hearing new music through a Pandora channel, and then starting a new station after I liked it. This has created a web of new music I wouldn't have sought out otherwise. Obviously, I do think that a human DJ may perf…
My favorite part of SomaFM is that I discover new artists (or get encouraged to go on a deep dive) fairly regularly. I've never bothered with Pandora or Spotify but the impression I get is that SomaFM is much better with the more niche genres.
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#116I have these three aliases in my ~/.bashrc:
alias somafm='mplayer -really-quiet -vo none -volume 128 -playlist http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls'
alias goa='mplayer -really-quiet -vo none -volume 128 -playlist http://somafm.com/suburbsofgoa.pls'
alias beatblender='mplayer -really-quiet -vo none -volume 128 -playlist https://somafm.com/beatblender.pls'
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#117Been listening to for years. Indie Pop Rocks is great. If you use TuneIn you can favorite songs.
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#118They have an Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dgmltn.rad..., https://radiomg.pw/) but sadly it does not appear to be open-source.
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#119Thanks to this HN post, I just installed the Android app of SomaFM.
But, I can't find a way to re-orient the app to landscape mode on my tablet. Is this not supported?
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#120I really miss Shoutcast/Icecast being such an active part of my life. The quality is way down, and there's like 1/6th the channels there used to be. For electronica in particular, there was just so much. But there were also so many random niche stations! SomaFM continues to be a great place for highly genre-d music. I make sure to give em money semi-regularly. Suburbs of Goa[1] is one of my favorite. [1] https://soma…
> For electronica in particular, there was just so much. But there were also so many random niche stations!
Indeed. I remember regularly switching between Massinova and a rebroadcast Polish classical station whose DJ had a nice voice.