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Re: SomaFM

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Post by zeruch »

The fact that they are still around is a testament to "Web 1.0" always having been worthwhile...

Re: SomaFM

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Post by linsomniac »

I had somehow forgotten about SomaFM, used to listen to it all the time but haven't in over a decade. I think I thought it had been shut down, I'm probably thinking of LastFM.

Re: SomaFM

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Post by soylentcola »

rektide wrote: post #5

I 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…

There are still quite a few though. I have several bookmarks on my normal PC and in AIMP on mobile. I never did "outgrow" my practice of using multiple bookmarked streaming stations as my daily "radio dial".

Re: SomaFM

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Post by dijit »

SomaFM was what I used to listen to on backtrack Linux back in the day, as it was one of the sites bookmarked in firefox.

wierdly enough I literally remembered about them 2 hours ago and put on defcon radio. Weird to see it pop up again now after i had forgot about it for so long.

Re: SomaFM

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Post by spiffydave »

siegelzero wrote: post #24
spiffydave wrote: post #20

Love it! Been a fan for many years. Would still love to find the archive of music/sounds from musicforhackers.com from years ago. That was an epic channel.

Did you mean this site? It has some pretty great content. https://musicforprogramming.net/one

That is cool! But no, Music for Hackers was a great combo of ambient/underground music overlaid with old movie audio samples and other stuff. Played from maybe 2000-2008 or something? Can't remember when it died.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010402042427/http://musicforha...

Re: SomaFM

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Post by W-Stool »

I've been donating to SomaFM for many years, and it is my music provider of choice in my home office (Space Station Soma for me). Some years ago I had an afternoon to kill while visiting San Francisco and Rusty was kind enough to let me stop by and say hello. A quick 10 minute visit turned into one of the most interesting two hours I've spent in my entire life. Rusty gave me the whole tour of the software interface that runs SomaFM and we had a fascinating discussion about the history of SomaFM in particular and streaming music in general. Thanks again Rusty!
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