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Re: Listen to radio stations from around the world

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Post by 1MachineElf »

johnnyapol wrote: post #3

Is anyone else unable to access the site? I'm currently on Firefox 85.0.2 (Arch Linux). I've tried disabling advanced privacy guard but I still get stuck in an infinite refresh loop :-(

With Firefox 85.0.1 on Ubuntu, it is working for me.

Re: Listen to radio stations from around the world

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Post by mikewarot »

anjel wrote: post #11

So many stations, so little time. I discovered radio.garden a few years ago, and then so many amazing stations, sometimes hobbyist, sometimes around the world. Yes it's a bit buggy, but it's also the perfect ui. IIR, it started as a uni project but now attempting to monetize. People pay for algorithmic playlists over free and lovingly hand-picked, and I just don't get it. For me at least, it's not even close.

I found the lovingly hand picked play lists of the Wee Scone Variety show via radio.garden a year or so ago.

Grant Henderson does a great job keeping it interesting yet quite listenable, and upbeat. The fact that he outside of the US helps him find versions of things I've never heard as well.

http://www.blackdiamondfm.com/programmes/wee-scone-variety-s...

Re: Listen to radio stations from around the world

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Post by 1MachineElf »

From 2013-2020 I found myself listening to radio stations on the regular while the rest of my friends were busying themselves with Spotify. In the beginning, it was because I moved to a rural area where FM radio was more reliable than the internet. Later, it was because I could not stream reliably on my phone as I passed through ~80 miles of countryside each way to work for 3 days every week. This has given me an appreciation of FM radio, especially local radio, that's unique among my peers.

I absolutely love this website. I like that my own local radio stations are on this. I like that radio stations from around the world are on this. It's awesome!

For the DC metro area, local favorites are:

- WETA 90.9 http://radio.garden/listen/weta-fm/Jei27SwN

- WPFW 89.3 http://radio.garden/listen/wpfw-fm-89-3/ninSp4px

I take it these are all radio stations that also do internet streaming. There is something similar that I've wondered about for a long time. Is there any easy to build or off-the-shelf device that I could use to stream FM radio on my local network? Say for example, I want to listen to FM radio while in the basement, but the reception is poor. Does there exist an FM tuner that I could mount in the attic window for best reception, connect via Ethernet, and then tune/stream whatever is playing to a client device down in the basement?

Re: Listen to radio stations from around the world

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Post by firloop »

Bedon292 wrote: post #17
llacb47 wrote: post #13

For some reason this site redirects you to the insecure version (HTTP). So if you are using HTTPS everywhere, you will get stuck in a refresh loop. See this snippet of code from an inline script in the page source: var isNative = /RadioGarden/i.test(window.navigator.userAgent); if (!isNative) if ("https:" === window.location.protocol) window.location.protocol = "http:"; else { ... }

I was wondering what was happening with it. I thought something had gone very wrong because of the traffic spike it got off going viral. Very strange thing to do.

It probably has to do with mixed content. I bet many radio streams are offered as HTTP only, making this site break if it’s on TLS.

Re: Listen to radio stations from around the world

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Post by inyorgroove »

1MachineElf wrote: post #25

From 2013-2020 I found myself listening to radio stations on the regular while the rest of my friends were busying themselves with Spotify. In the beginning, it was because I moved to a rural area where FM radio was more reliable than the internet. Later, it was because I could not stream reliably on my phone as I passed through ~80 miles of countryside each way to work for 3 days every week. This has given me an app…

This should be possible with a RTL-SDR and a raspberry pi. I don't know of any off the shelf software, but the RTL-SDR for sure can tune FM stations.
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