Let's use this to share our favourite stations.
Shonan Beach FM, based in Japan. 'Lofi Japanese jazz', I guess? When I lived in a house with a HomePod I had a shortcut hey Siri, Shonan Beach! that was activated most mornings. This was on all day as a low-volume background track. Love it.
https://radio.garden/listen/shonan-beach-fm-78-9/qg9qo6VR
(I was in Australia, timezone-adjacent. YMMV if you're connecting at 03:00 Tokyo time. Also they do a lot of talking on the weekends.)
I like to go there from time to time to listen to languages I do not know.
Then I look at the place on Google street view (or satellite view of not available). And try to imagine the life of people there.
Then I go to Wikipedia to read about the place and then this is the end: I spend over or two hours reading randomly about loosely related topics.
Serendipity is a wonderful thing
I've been using Radio Garden for years.
A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations.
Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more.
I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world.
The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however...
I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.
Also:
https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/ (not really radio, but also on my bookmarks)
https://directory.shoutcast.com/ is still kicking :)
EDIT: I meant whiping the llamas ass!
I've used Radio Garden for years to help with language learning. In English language communication I can't stand the ads one bit. But in another language even those are an opportunity for practice.
Love this site. Also see tv.garden
Huh, the geolocation on this is surprisingly good. I did not allow the browser to use my current location and it perfectly detected the city I'm in. Most of the time IP based geolocation places me in a nearby larger city, presumably one where my ISP has an exchange.
Anyone looking for a commercial-free, listener-supported "radio" station would be remiss not to check out https://radioparadise.com -- it is truly a rare-gem in our over-commercialized world.
And we can't talk about music streaming on the Internet without mentioning one of the originals -- https://somafm.com -- still going strong.
I support both of these stations because their "business model" is so refreshing, very much in the spirit of the "Old Internet," which I miss dearly.
Nice app. I found a radio from the town nearby. Never heard about it. I even like the music they are playing.
On the bad side, this is an app which is very difficult to use with uMatrix because it loads JS from the domain of the selected radio and it must be whitelisted. Ok for sparse areas but apparently big cities return a different radio each time (or I didn't zoom it far enough.) I don't know if this is a solvable problem server side. Probably not because what can they do? Run a headless browser and stream the content, one browser per connection? That would be asking too much. I'll whitelist the stations I like most.
Thanks for site.
What an absolutely lovely webapp! I have loved listening to far away stations since early childhood, when I built antennas in the garden to catch far away waves....
A feature I've requested (no response, paid membership) is to hide radio stations. This is because I like to trial each radio station in a region before I favourite it. It's difficult to keep track of which station I've trialled if there's no way to hide them or leave a note on them. Hiding them from the map would be most effective.
Related: I'm working on Radiobird https://radiobird.fm/en ...focus is on bookmarking *shows* or *parts of a program* instead of the stations. More a modular / interest based approach to the radio world.
Weirdly I'm getting "stations outside the UK unavailable". (I'm based in the UK.)
I use this to listen to radio from my home city, it really helps sooth the feeling of homesickness.
Iām very curious about how this is implemented to play radio stations from all over the world.
How do they get all this data? Do they plant receivers all over the world?
Previous discussions:
Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887359 - July 2024 (64 comments)
Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441847 - Feb 2022 (34 comments)
Listen to radio stations from around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138529 - Feb 2021 (32 comments)
Radio Garden ā Explore live radio by rotating the globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771 - June 2020 (123 comments)
Google Earth for live radios - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427701 - Nov 2018 (98 comments)
Radio Garden ā Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058 - Dec 2016 (114 comments)
Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160450 - Dec 2016 (4 comments)