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I discovered SomaFM channels (SomaFM, Secret agent, GrooveSalad) from iTunes Radio around 2003. Listened to it always while working on my computer while studying in university. Good memories and so happy they are still around!
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.
Also, Starstreams is old-school and remains great. Easiest to listen to them via iHeartRadio app on my TV these days..
Mixcloud is fantastic as well.
And Mixlr is nice depending on the DJ.
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.
For a while now I've considered this to be more of a curse than anything else because at least personally I've noticed that the constant hopping replaces genuinely paying attention with quantity. I now pick a handful of albums per month or pick an NTS session I like and re-listen much more.
Was looking through possible Bash command prompts by typing letters and hitting tab for autocomplete. "Hey, what is that? soma? what does that command do?" (It was a terminal music player with a number of stations, primarily SomaFM programmed in. There was another one called "Air Lounge" or something that was also good).
And boom, Groove Salad and Beat Blender were realized.
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 t…
It's been several years but I also had the pleasure of meeting Rusty down at the studio once. My dad has now made it a habit; he's been to SF for work and pleasure four or five times now, and met up with him each time, I believe. I have been listening to Soma for at least 15 years. Definitely a great place to have bookmarked.
Would absolutely love to meet him some day