Hi,
I took my spotify playlist and downloaded it all in mp3, because it doesn’t change very much and I would like to do away with even a free, arr, spotify.
When I was younger I got my music from the radio, so I am checking that vector, any recommendations?
I found https://radio.garden/ which is a good start I think.
As a side note, publicity in foreign languages goes so much better on my ear, even American English, “buy this medicine”, “contact this lawyer” lol! but it is of course even better with no publicity at all.
Thank you!
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Been listening to Soma.fm for a long time. Groove Salad and Indie Pop Rocks. Sometimes they play really strange stuff on one or the other, so that’s about when I will switch channels.
Ooh I have donated to them. I did listed like hundreds of hours during long study sessions.
I love and donate to SomaFM.
I have been hooked on the ‘DroneZone’, but there are lots of other channels on SomaFM that I should explore.
There is very minimal interruption (hourly? and quietly) asking for donations.
LoFi Girl if you’re looking for real downtempo background noise. Lived on it when I was doing Uni.
If you’re the patient and organized type, you can download their entire library from their main site. The advantage here is that the livestream gets a little repetitive after a while.
KEXP.org - public indie radio out of Seattle. Has good shows over the course of the day. I really like the afternoon show (1 pm pacific time) on Thursday. The DJ does “OG Thursday” where he picks a group or artist and highlights songs that sample them.
Thecurrent.org - kinda the same deal out of Minneapolis, but also different
Both available on their website or through the https://www.radio-browser.info/ database
Jamendo streams different genres as stations without adverts/publicity.
https://www.jamendo.com/radios
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Or put a search string into YT,
‘creative Commons mix <genre>’
( eg. creative Commons mix lofi’ )
Will give something like this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYOHQ3GXK5JIIYcSfxDzB8vJagRKAw8XN
My most common recommendation is campus-fm.com, which is a frontend for listening to a bunch of North American college radio stations. Wide net but may help you find various shows whose programming you dig.
radiparadise.com is curated and cute
Not super on-topic, being more traditional radio than internet, but I hope to boost the mission anyway:
The two ancient stalwarts are still up and running:
Icecast directory: https://dir.xiph.org/
Shoutcast directory: https://directory.shoutcast.com/
Note that these are sites containing links to online radio stations not a statement about the quality of what might be available. Shoutcast has the better website, but is also slightly more oriented towards commercial content. Given that you say you like ads from other countries, maybe that’s the one you’d want to try first.
I discovered a lot of interesting new music through BBC Radio 6 Music.
https://fip.fr/ 's main and Jazz radio. fm4 ORF Also France Musique.
Use RadioDroid on F-Droid if you use Android.
ChIRP, Chicago Independent Radio Project, is an ad-free station that broadcasts over the Internet. They have volunteer DJs and you can make requests and everything. Though they don’t take paid ads, they do occasionally do PSAs and promotions for local charity events.
Would instrumental radio count?
I’ve asked some DJ’s what radio they listen too and NTS has been unanimously answered. Very good variety, playlist for any mood and discovery is great as well.
