Shonan Beach FM, based in Japan. 'Lofi Japanese jazz', I guess? When I lived in a house with a HomePod I had a shortcut hey Siri, Shonan Beach! that was activated most mornings. This was on all day as a low-volume background track. Love it.
One unfortunate property of radio.garden is it doesn’t give you the actual stream links (IIRC it proxies the M3Us through its own server), because lock-in I guess? I’d be happy to be proven wrong here, because the site is otherwise excellent.
I came upon a French-language radio station catalogue a while ago, and that did have the original links, but I’ve lost the tab since then :( ETA: It was https://www.programmes-radio.com/en/streaming/, and I was misremembering: they don’t show the original playlist link either, but they do use it in their streaming widget, so it’s a only short trip to the Network tab of the browser’s devtools away.
Interesting, I haven't heard of this station before, but most of the Shonan area has the vibe of a surf village so the music pretty much matches that vibe. Sounds like a station I'll visit more often.
I wanted to listen to radio from Iran for obvious political reasons but there doesn't seem to be any on Radio Garden.
So I listened to some radio from Iraq since it was next door, and it was a music station, and the music was really good. I couldn't understand the lyrics but it was very enjoyable.
- the road home FM/"Bob and the dogs" it's a mixture of poetry and song from a guy that lives in the Canadian wilderness, talks in a very soothing manner
- the wave from Vancouver CA (also Soma FM underground 80s). It's a new wave station that plays some very deep cuts from artists that also had radio play in the 80s. I thought I basically heard all 80s alt rock and new wave songs but this station at least doubled it for me.
- CKIA from Quebec City. It's a very diverse program, sat and sun mornings they have chamber music that is very relaxing.
Huh, the geolocation on this is surprisingly good. I did not allow the browser to use my current location and it perfectly detected the city I'm in. Most of the time IP based geolocation places me in a nearby larger city, presumably one where my ISP has an exchange.
A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations.
Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more.
I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world.
The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however...
I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.
Nice app. I found a radio from the town nearby. Never heard about it. I even like the music they are playing.
On the bad side, this is an app which is very difficult to use with uMatrix because it loads JS from the domain of the selected radio and it must be whitelisted. Ok for sparse areas but apparently big cities return a different radio each time (or I didn't zoom it far enough.) I don't know if this is a solvable problem server side. Probably not because what can they do? Run a headless browser and stream the content, one browser per connection? That would be asking too much. I'll whitelist the stations I like most.
What an absolutely lovely webapp! I have loved listening to far away stations since early childhood, when I built antennas in the garden to catch far away waves....
This was discussed previously, but this is because of a court case that Warner Music and Sony brought against radio streaming app TuneIn Radio. They argued that streaming stations outside of the UK for listeners inside the UK through the app, while using in-app advertising, was a copyright infringement.
This has had a chilling effect on other radio streaming platforms, which have all restricted foreign radio stations on their platforms while geolocated inside the UK.
It's remarkable to me that TV Garden has BBC channels from the UK. Except for World/News, those channels are not (supposed to be) available outside the UK. I wonder how they're getting them.
Also:
https://radioparadise.com
https://radiooooo.com
https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/ (not really radio, but also on my bookmarks)
Previous discussions:
Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887359 - July 2024 (64 comments)
Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441847 - Feb 2022 (34 comments)
Listen to radio stations from around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138529 - Feb 2021 (32 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 (114 comments)
Radio Garden - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160450 - Dec 2016 (4 comments)
Let's use this to share our favourite stations.
Shonan Beach FM, based in Japan. 'Lofi Japanese jazz', I guess? When I lived in a house with a HomePod I had a shortcut hey Siri, Shonan Beach! that was activated most mornings. This was on all day as a low-volume background track. Love it.
https://radio.garden/listen/shonan-beach-fm-78-9/qg9qo6VR
(I was in Australia, timezone-adjacent. YMMV if you're connecting at 03:00 Tokyo time. Also they do a lot of talking on the weekends.)
I've been enjoying Punnagai radio for a few months: https://radio.garden/listen/punnagai-radio/WU8eJqek
I don't know much about Indian/Tamil music, but it's catchy.
Or https://shonanbeachfm.out.airtime.pro:8000/shonanbeachfm_a if you want to use a web radio app like https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.y20k.transistor/ etc.
One unfortunate property of radio.garden is it doesn’t give you the actual stream links (IIRC it proxies the M3Us through its own server), because lock-in I guess? I’d be happy to be proven wrong here, because the site is otherwise excellent.
I came upon a French-language radio station catalogue a while ago, and that did have the original links, but I’ve lost the tab since then :( ETA: It was https://www.programmes-radio.com/en/streaming/, and I was misremembering: they don’t show the original playlist link either, but they do use it in their streaming widget, so it’s a only short trip to the Network tab of the browser’s devtools away.
AFAIK the https://www.skytune.net/ portal gives you the original .mp3/aac/m3u ... adresses
Thanks! I typically access through Apple Music, which itself goes via TuneIn. Not a delightful experience, but the only one that works on a HomePod.
Interesting, I haven't heard of this station before, but most of the Shonan area has the vibe of a surf village so the music pretty much matches that vibe. Sounds like a station I'll visit more often.
I wanted to listen to radio from Iran for obvious political reasons but there doesn't seem to be any on Radio Garden.
So I listened to some radio from Iraq since it was next door, and it was a music station, and the music was really good. I couldn't understand the lyrics but it was very enjoyable.
- the road home FM/"Bob and the dogs" it's a mixture of poetry and song from a guy that lives in the Canadian wilderness, talks in a very soothing manner
- the wave from Vancouver CA (also Soma FM underground 80s). It's a new wave station that plays some very deep cuts from artists that also had radio play in the 80s. I thought I basically heard all 80s alt rock and new wave songs but this station at least doubled it for me.
- CKIA from Quebec City. It's a very diverse program, sat and sun mornings they have chamber music that is very relaxing.
Huh, the geolocation on this is surprisingly good. I did not allow the browser to use my current location and it perfectly detected the city I'm in. Most of the time IP based geolocation places me in a nearby larger city, presumably one where my ISP has an exchange.
Likely your IP is dynamic and changed into some address they have more accurate data on
I've been using Radio Garden for years.
A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations.
Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more.
I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world.
The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however...
I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.
I like to go there from time to time to listen to languages I do not know.
Then I look at the place on Google street view (or satellite view of not available). And try to imagine the life of people there.
Then I go to Wikipedia to read about the place and then this is the end: I spend over or two hours reading randomly about loosely related topics.
Serendipity is a wonderful thing
https://directory.shoutcast.com/ is still kicking :)
EDIT: I meant whiping the llamas ass!
Nice app. I found a radio from the town nearby. Never heard about it. I even like the music they are playing.
On the bad side, this is an app which is very difficult to use with uMatrix because it loads JS from the domain of the selected radio and it must be whitelisted. Ok for sparse areas but apparently big cities return a different radio each time (or I didn't zoom it far enough.) I don't know if this is a solvable problem server side. Probably not because what can they do? Run a headless browser and stream the content, one browser per connection? That would be asking too much. I'll whitelist the stations I like most.
Thanks for site.
What an absolutely lovely webapp! I have loved listening to far away stations since early childhood, when I built antennas in the garden to catch far away waves....
Weirdly I'm getting "stations outside the UK unavailable". (I'm based in the UK.)
Block the https://radio.garden/api/geo URL in ublock origin
Gotta give the creators some credit for their 2-foot high wall ;-)
This was discussed previously, but this is because of a court case that Warner Music and Sony brought against radio streaming app TuneIn Radio. They argued that streaming stations outside of the UK for listeners inside the UK through the app, while using in-app advertising, was a copyright infringement.
This has had a chilling effect on other radio streaming platforms, which have all restricted foreign radio stations on their platforms while geolocated inside the UK.
https://www.mishcon.com/news/court-of-appeal-upholds-copyrig...
yup me too, which really defeats the point somewhat :(
Love this site. Also see tv.garden
It's remarkable to me that TV Garden has BBC channels from the UK. Except for World/News, those channels are not (supposed to be) available outside the UK. I wonder how they're getting them.
looks like just a load of dodgy iptv links
How do they get all this data? Do they plant receivers all over the world?
No need. Radio stations have Internet music streams..