Wonderful to see SomaFM getting some visibility here. Groove Salad and XMas in Frisco have always been great for me. Rusty has been a constant honestly since the end of the 90s and always been the go-to for me. Great Roku app too btw.
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#92Listening to it right now. It's an easy platform to explore a bunch of different music. I'm usually parked on Secret Agent, Boot Liquor and occasionally other channels. Reminds me I should donate (which I do with random regularity).
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#93Around 1999 I created thumpradio.com, which was the "streaming" website for the Thump Radio radio show and (mad) parties in San Francisco. The site streamed all the radio shows, DJ sets (in RealAudio) and had artist bios and track downloads. You could stream music interwoven with interviews for days on end.
The site is long gone, with some ghosts of it on the Wayback Machine but I have forever memories from that time.
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#94Can I run this from terminal, and fantastic for producing this
Just saw this Mac CLI player referenced on Reddit
https://github.com/rockymadden/somafm-cli
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#95Thanks for sharing this page with all HN visitors. I didn't know it until today. I see that all the folks around here have a great teast with all this old stuff from the early days of the Internet, it reminds me that old time too.
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#97This is a cool site! Thank you for showing me it <3
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#98I 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?
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 devices, especially now that it's trivial to pop a 128GB microSD card into my phone.
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#99Around 1999 I created thumpradio.com, which was the "streaming" website for the Thump Radio radio show and (mad) parties in San Francisco. The site streamed all the radio shows, DJ sets (in RealAudio) and had artist bios and track downloads. You could stream music interwoven with interviews for days on end. The site is long gone, with some ghosts of it on the Wayback Machine but I have forever memories from that time…
Still have cassette tapes of Thump Radio shows on KUSF, and memories of enjoying the RealAudio sets. I also remember them calling out the show identification in various languages, where the only words I understood were at the end: “… Thump Radio.” Great stuff — thank you.
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#100Around 1999 I created thumpradio.com, which was the "streaming" website for the Thump Radio radio show and (mad) parties in San Francisco. The site streamed all the radio shows, DJ sets (in RealAudio) and had artist bios and track downloads. You could stream music interwoven with interviews for days on end. The site is long gone, with some ghosts of it on the Wayback Machine but I have forever memories from that time…
Still have cassette tapes of Thump Radio shows on KUSF, and memories of enjoying the RealAudio sets. I also remember them calling out the show identification in various languages, where the only words I understood were at the end: “… Thump Radio.” Great stuff — thank you.
HA! I recorded one of those show ids in Hebrew at the time. Completely forgot about that. I am pretty sure all those recordings do exist somewhere.
Mason Rothert was doing all things radio there and it was beautiful to watch (and listen).