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My favorite SomaFM channel is Doomed. But, they now run it only around the time of Halloween. I would categorize it as Halloween Dark Industrial Ambient. They had a new channel, The Dark Zone, which ran for awhile as a Special. It was OK, but Doomed is unique.
I 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?
Basically anything else isn't on major streaming services.
Radio 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?
Radio 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/
Agreed! I've been "harvesting" their playlist (via their published RSS feed) for ~5 years now, storing an entry for each played song in a MySQL db table. I'm not doing anything with this data right now, but at some point in the future when Bill & Rebecca retire, I take comfort in knowing I'll be able to munge together a lot of RP-quality playlists. :)
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did $10/mo give you access to almost every CD ever released, playable anywhere?
That's generally only true if you listen to Top 40 and major labels. Basically anything else isn't on major streaming services.
Being on streaming services seems like it's table stakes for new artists these days. All the friends of mine who seriously create music make sure to release it on Spotify. Those of us who make music less seriously still release it for free on Soundcloud. No, none of us are signed to major labels.
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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
> I don't understand why internet radio has died. Sure, spotify etc but broadcast music is different. Radio didn't die because CDs existed
My point is that CDs and subscription streaming are two totally different beasts, and it's not surprising that the latter was more of a disruptor to FM/internet radio.
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did $10/mo give you access to almost every CD ever released, playable anywhere?
I've recently gone back to buying CDs. I got annoyed with stuff "going gray" in my Spotify playlists, just vanishing out of the blue after I'd fallen in love with it and wanted it to be part of my mood and given that mood a name and curated a whole menagerie to go with it. Soma's no answer to that, so this is way off-topic. But streaming services are no replacement for the CD. I'll rip and encode and curate on my own…
I 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 ?
More epic and amazing project and sites like this, please.