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Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links

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I’ve been an admin at https://rainwave.cc for about 15 years now. One of the unique (I think) features we have allows listeners to influence what plays next on the radio.

While the current song is playing, we run a three-candidate election to choose the next song. We usually include a listener request as one of the three candidates in the election.

We’re a friendly community, in my obviously biased opinion. Feel free to hang out with us on Discord; the link is on the Rainwave homepage.

Been listening to rainwave for over three years now, gamification aspect with voting is very fitting for a video game music streaming website.

I do not recall any other demoscene/vgm station on the list with voting capability. Yours is the only one. Thanks for the invite.

If I am not mistaken nectarine have been doing it for year?

I'm not sure anymore, but I remember back when I was in middle school, Radio Hyrule was entirely music selected by listeners in a queue, moving random only when it was empty. I believe there were queue limits on users though

The following still works, though the home page has no functionality. I will add this later. Thanks. Radio Hyrule - Zelda music 24/7! http://RadioHyrule.com https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen.m3u https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen (192 kbps MP3) https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo.m3u https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo (64 kbps MP3)

https://www.radio-browser.info/ has those streams listed (and this database feeds into radiodroid if you want a way to stream it on a phone using opensource parts)

EDIT: Misread the parent comment, radiohyrule (rainwave is) isn't on there but submissions are open if you'd like to add it.

Thanks. I'll check it out. Didn't even know there were radio stations for game music.

I love rainwave, it's a excellent site for gaming music.

cvgm.net lets any listener queue up to 5-6 tracks. nectarine is 1-3 iirc, but I didn't hang out there much.

I'd like to plug my own favorite here: https://queup.net (former dubtrack.fm) let's you create your own playlists from YouTube and soundcloud, then you can make your own channel, people can join and you take turns playing what you put in your music queue.

Every morning I turn up my computer, go to grab some tea, start pyradio and pick up Slay Radio from the list. Nectarine is for the evenings.

I tried something very similar a few years ago with Radio [1]. To have animations running along side good music. I got in touch with a lot of web radios asking to use their links. In the beginning I had a lot of streams on my project, but after a while I had to remove a bunch of them, cause they either stop working or were not serving it via HTTPS (chrome wouldn't let me stream http over my https app). Most of the animations were made by me, I've asked a lot of programmers to contribute, but few did. In the end, I let the project run it course. Visiting it today to write this post I saw the only one radio is working "Classic Rock Florida HD". Those guys really liked this project, they were using the link to my app instead of theirs a while ago

1 - https://victorribeiro.com/radio/classicrockflorida

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radio

A worthy mention is zoasty's (super metroid speed runner and musician) alt twitch stream where hardware rips of video game music are played:

https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk

More info on the channel:

https://pastebin.com/RuAqfgqM

I went to the https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk link and saw video of a video game being played and turned up the volume and heard Jazz, Fiddle, Flamenco Guitar and real music from acoustic instruments and no ripped video game music. What am I missing here?

I went to http://dmpsoft.s17.xrea.com/hoot/ and see that the hoot... - Sound Hardware Emulator program is documented all in Japanese. I am not interested in going to the effort of translating this page.

I went to the other links from the pastebin page and find this stuff a little too difficult to get into right now. I am not interested in downloading software and content to try this stuff out. I may not be interested, but possibly another reader will see your comment and dive into it.

Thanks for you comment and please enjoy what I posted on my page!

It's possible other types of music are sometimes played, but I've never personally seen it. Usually you can see where the VGM comes from scrolling at the top of the stream.

Also, zoasty explains in the pastebin that he had a lot of help setting hoot up, so I don't think the expectation is for others to be able to easily recreate what he did.

Not a Demoscene radio per se, but SomaFM is also a donation-funded internet radio that's well aligned with demoscene listeners like me: electronic, chill, downtempo music which goes well with coding sessions. I've been listening to them for decades now.

https://somafm.com

Yes, they are a good source of interesting music. I found them way back when I first got Winamp to stream music when I got broadband after having dial-up Internet.

So good to see they are still around! Thanks!

My links, I have not verified them all if have valid content:

- https://www.remix64.com/

- https://modarchive.org/

- https://www.pouet.net/

- https://www.elwoodproductions.com/

- https://nolife-radio.com/

- https://www.lukhash.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/@lukhash

- https://keygenmusic.tk/

- https://csdb.dk/

- https://www.amigaremix.com/

- https://archive.org/details/essential-keygen-music

- https://www.youtube.com/@Kuokka77

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3idhsGatQ

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82euAFSg7U

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mVa7D-ZPY

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS66ZWrxWg

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p3-8fTo0

And yet not a single reference to https://pouet.net somehow.

I am aware of this site, and it has great demoscene demos! I am not aware of it having demoscene streaming music. If it does, let me know where.

Thanks!

I'm really fascinated by the demoscene, but clicking on those links only gives me music which seems completely devoid of humans. And, I suppose I'm really interested in the demoscene because I really want to know the humans behind it.

My current favorite radio stations are things like KMHD jazz in Portland, OR, or BBC with Gilles Peterson. Great music, but they always provide such fascinating context to the people behind the music.

How do I get to know the people making demoscene art? Is there a radio station where someone can introduce me to that? Or, is this the wrong way to think about the demoscene?

Have a look at the following link to learn about the demoscene

Demoscene https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

The music devoid of humans :-) is meant to sound that way. The history of the demoscene music goes back to the 80s and 90s on microcomputers with limited memory and other capabilities. These tunes are created in chiptunes and module files that are surprisingly small size for the amount of music they produce. See the following two links for more info.

Chiptune https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune

Module file https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file

A few month ago, I interviewed a guy that covers the demoscene on YouTube. It received a lot of insightful comments on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344

Not demoscene related, but I can see it intersects your interests of games and music: 8-bit music theory on YouTube covers music in depth which often includes diving into a musician's unique styles.

Radio Sega seems to be missing from the list - https://www.radiosega.net/

I will add the following later. Thanks!

RadioSEGA - Playing the best SEGA music 24/7! https://www.RadioSEGA.net https://www.RadioSEGA.net/listen/ RadioSEGA - Playlist https://www.RadioSEGA.net/play/ http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/live (64 kbps AAC+) RadioSEGA - Playlist http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3.m3u http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3 (96 kbps MP3)

I picked 3 random links and none of them worked.

and all of them had ads and trackers blocked by my plugins

I am sorry to hear that. As for ads, I do not run an ad blocker, so none of the links were an issue for me. Try others, you likely will have no issues on some of them. Kohina, at the top of the list, has no ads for sure.

These would pair well with my internet radio program written in Hylang: https://github.com/danieljaouen/pi-radio-hylang ;)

Could you please clarify the statement "An internet radio program written in the Hy language + Flask."? Is this a streaming radio player program? I might add it to my "Desktop Streaming Radio Players" list at https://mw.rat.bz/players/ . Is it mostly a Linux application?

Thanks.

It is (mostly) a Linux program. It uses mpd and mpc underneath, and its function is to help you store your favorite stations to a database (sqlite) for easy rememberability. Note that you have to open the files in a text editor to extract the correct links (unless the correct link is given already).

interesting. I have had a nectarine demoscene radio sticker on my last fridge. Didn‘t know there is so much more. Thanks!

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