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Radio Garden

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Listen to radio stations from around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138529 - Feb 2021 (31 comments)

Radio Garden – 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 – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058 - Dec 2016 (110 comments)

Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160450 - Dec 2016 (4 comments)

I love this app. But after a while using it I found it suffers the same problem as most other Internet radio apps - obsessed with location. I started making a list of stations based on genre or general vibe and ended up building https://muso.fm It's a refined list of good Internet radio stations playing good music.

Amazing! I'm going to use it as a low-friction way to stay immersed in Brazilian Portuguese.

This is one of those moments that really got me back in touch with the magic of the internet. Also kudos to the creators for creating a mobile-optimized version of the site that continues playing even when my screen is locked!

If you see a missing station, I was easily able to submit a missing station from my hometown few weeks ago.

https://submit.radio.garden

Love the project.

Also love Radio as a medium in general. Sure there are ads. Sure there is unsolicited content. But exactly this is the strength. Even if I am tripped up by some oponions which do not resonate with mines or music I really hate - its a stimulus to escape the social orinformation bubble the recommender based engines created for us.

100%. There's something missing from life when what you're exposed to is entirely curated for you or by you. It's not better or worse, just different, and can be nice.

I do love that you can use this to listen to 'Tatooine' radio: http://radio.garden/visit/tataouine/QhlNhiHM (Tataouine in Tunisia is where Lucas filmed the opening of Star Wars, it was originally named 'Utapau' in the script until the location scout.)

Music tastes are surprisingly more homogeneous around the world than I thought. It's also interesting to see how reggaeton/latin trap has taken over all the Spanish speaking world.

Bad Bunny did some WWE things last year (and this year) and some of my very different friend groups merged for a brief time. Weird stuff.

I love radio.garden, I use it to listen to my national broadcast radio since it's much lighter than the official webapp.

One thing I would love though would be a random function where it just find a new radio station to listen to, maybe with a filter by region.

This is great.

I used to try to find radio stream aggregators like this online, I enjoyed hearing what is popular in all kinds of places, but usually the novelty wore off when the selection was limited. This one appears to have a massive catalog of streams.

I still remember when I first discovered it, I couldn't stop zapping and listening to radios located in the most remote places. Amazing project!

I love this one, KNDN. It’s located in Farmington, NM and it’s a Navajo station. They don’t have words for everything in their language so you’ll hear random English words like “Walmart” and such dropped in.

http://radio.garden/listen/kndn/YpE8bbVX

Walmart isn't a word, it's a name, so Walmart is Walmart in any language. I get what you're saying though.

It's always fun finding out indigenous words created to describe new things. For example, the Fijian (vosa vakaviti) word for internet is mona livaliva. Mona means brain and livaliva is electricity, so the Fijian word for internet means "electric brain".

I am a fan. I use the iOS app on my M1 mac every day. I wish they had more stations however. Some I like are missing.

the search function seems to list more stations than the browse function, in case that helps...

Then why complain about it here and not just fill out the submission form they provide for this very reason?

Their infrastructure is not compatible with some radio station streaming software.

I hope you have a good day.

You're assuming they have not already.

Shirley & Spinoza https://radio.garden/listen/shirley-spinoza-radio/BgoQjOjJ Has some exotic outer space mixes

that's a really interesting find, esp. given the location

This is seriously awesome, I recently bought an AM/FM stereo to keep up to date with the latest technology and it was really lacking the feature to geolocate stations.

I picked up a beautiful old NAD 4300 the other year. That dial is just extraordinary, they don’t make ‘em like that any more.

https://mikesdx.com/nad4300.html

This is great. It found the station of my town, population 5000.

Heck, they have the community radio station from a tiny Indian reservation near where I grew up, as well as the community radio station from the town of 1,300 that I last lived in.

My kids love this site. When they want to put on some music while doing some work, they always open up radio garden and pick a (semi-) random station.

Awesome well done. Bookmarked.

You might also like https://radiooooo.com/

Love it, what a cool project!

Interesting that life goes on in Ukraine.

Some good electronic beats out of Luhansk: http://radio.garden/listen/luga-radio/bRZEhN3I

Might as well have some upbeat music while being invaded.

That was the first thing I explored.

I found a talk radio station that mentioned “Putin” and tried using an app to translate it but Russian didn’t work and the apps don’t support Ukrainian yet.

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