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Re: SomaFM

#31

Post by itsoktocry » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:02 PM UTC

So awesome to see this here. Been listening to, donating to and recommending SomaFM since for 15 years.

Re: SomaFM

#32

Post by tbatchelli » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:02 PM UTC

SomeFM is such a rarity these days, a reminder of how we believed the Internet was going to be.

They take recurring donations. Probably the best way to help them and one of the best investments for me, as keeping it up and running is a way to keep these naive ideas alive.

The music is curated and is most excellent (for my taste, of course). I have Groove Salad on speed dial in my HomePods around the house (through TuneIn radio).

Thank you Rusty for sticking with it!

Re: SomaFM

#33

Post by wrycoder » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:03 PM UTC

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.

Re: SomaFM

#34

Post by kofejnik » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

Wow, no mention of chromanova.de yet?

Re: SomaFM

#35

Post by paulcole » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:08 PM UTC

tbatchelli wrote: post #32

SomeFM is such a rarity these days, a reminder of how we believed the Internet was going to be. They take recurring donations. Probably the best way to help them and one of the best investments for me, as keeping it up and running is a way to keep these naive ideas alive. The music is curated and is most excellent (for my taste, of course). I have Groove Salad on speed dial in my HomePods around the house (through Tu…

> SomeFM is such a rarity these days, a reminder of how we believed the Internet was going to be.

Let me start out by saying that SomaFM is great.

But when I started listening to SomaFM (nearly 20 years ago), I never imagined that for only $10/month I'd be able to listen to (essentially) any song whenever I wanted. That's amazing and so much more valuable (to me) than what Soma offers.

Re: SomaFM

#36

Post by unova » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:08 PM UTC

Thanks for this! This made my day/week/month :D

Re: SomaFM

#37

Post by seydor » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC

I don't understand why internet radio has died. Sure, spotify etc but broadcast music is different. Radio didn't die because CDs existed

Re: SomaFM

#38

Post by jacamera » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC

A lot has changed over the past 20 years but playing http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls on Winamp remains the same. I started donating $5/mo a few years ago because I appreciate having such a valuable constant in my life more and more as time goes on.

Re: SomaFM

#39

Post by drorwolmer » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC

I created https://wfh.dj so I can listen to new music from my subscriptions (>20m) without the youtube procrastination rabbit hole.

Mostly House, Electronic, Jazz (Stuff me and the team like to listen to while we work).

Re: SomaFM

#40

Post by tootie » Tue, May 31, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

Neat. I do this with public radio (KCRW, WQXR, WFMU) but this opens up a lot of variety.