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!
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.
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 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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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)