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No radio stations have ever played the music I'm looking for so no, this doesn't work for me at all. The majority of stations play top 40, or top R&B/Urban (no idea what the PC description is), top country, class rock. Maybe if you live in LA or NYC there are some other stations with more eclectic selections like say KCRW in LA but I have no interest in what they play.

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If you are in the UK, try BBC Radio 6 Music. Or if you have a VPN (I assume its not available from outside the the UK) https://www.bbc.co.uk/6music

Similarly, in Canada we have CBC Radio 3 which plays pretty good indie music: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-music-playlists/56-cbc-radio-3

There are other CBC Music playlists that are surprisingly good too: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-music-playlists

it is available from outside the UK on the BBC website. alternatively, most (all?) of the BBC radio stream URLs can be found here [1], and consumed with e.g VLC

[1] https://gist.github.com/stengland/8705765

While great radio stations solve the issue of finding new music, finding great radio stations is even harder than finding new music.

I've been lucky to have moved a few times and discovered some great local radio stations along the way. They still make up the larger part of new music I discover. But I agree, mainstream stations are very unlikely to do this for you, and there's currently no good way to discover good radio stations.

> Maybe if you live in LA or NYC there are some other stations with more eclectic selections

Do you know that you can get radio stations over the Internet? It doesn’t matter where you physically live.

And it's much more interested to hear station from locations you never been :)

Recommend to try https://www.radio-browser.info

I find FIP to have a pretty decent selection of music (clearly not top 40 only). https://www.fip.fr/

I've discovered so many great artists through FIP, the greatest thing about this one is the themed channels, you're almost guaranteed to always find something good to listen to.

public / college/ indie stations. They usually have online streaming. For all the digging I've done online, radio yields the most unexpected, unheard results. Not always what you want, but still, interesting. Irreplaceable.

Web radios have been a thing for like, what, 30 years? I can't believe there is not a single web radio playing the music you like.

What kind of music are you looking for?

stream them!

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