Used to listen to these guys years ago, lost track of them, glad to see they are still going.
SomaFM
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#122I have been listening to SomaFM for more than 15 years now. There are some real gems on it. It's a vestige of what was one of the best time for internet at the turn of the century. I often set deep space one to a 15 minutes timer before falling asleep.
The only thing I don't like is how 1 out of every 25 songs is just random noises with out of tune deep bass. Oh well, then I switch to drone zone or liquid or something :).
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#123I don't understand why internet radio has died. Sure, spotify etc but broadcast music is different. Radio didn't die because CDs existed
did $10/mo give you access to almost every CD ever released, playable anywhere?
it's enough to buy 1 album per month. of course it s not the same, but i don't like to listen to every cd ever. The rare times i really wanted to hear something i could pirate it. I still enjoy radio streams for the low mental overhead though, plus u get the news too
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#124Neat. I do this with public radio (KCRW, WQXR, WFMU) but this opens up a lot of variety.
Consider adding WXPN to your repertoire. They're out of the University of Pennsylvania in Philly. Incredible selection of music and commercial free.
https://xpn.org/
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#125I 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' Thanks for the reminder to donate again!
Nice :)
Doesn't `volume 128` saturate sound though ?
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#126I miss: https://www.digitalgunfire.com/. :(
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#127Been listening to SomaFM and donating since 2003 or so. Love these guys.
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#128Radio Paradise [1] is also going strong after 20+ years. Fantastic curation and you can even stream in lossless for free (or at least I seem to be able to from the Android TV app). [1] https://radioparadise.com/
Do you know of other lossless internet radios?
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#129I’m so glad SomaFM is still around. It’s one of the last holdouts from when the internet was just a giant pool of possibilities. So much at that time was people just doing fun things because they could and while that’s still out there, most of what I see these days seems to be people optimizing the fun out of everything. DroneZone for me tonight.
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#130SomaFM is my favorite station. I've tried many other internet stations, and they all fail for the same reasons:
1. they repeat after 1 or 2 days
2. and worst of all, they repeat the same 3 commercials constantly, until I want to scream