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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.)
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.
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.
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'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.
https://directory.shoutcast.com/ is still kicking :)
EDIT: I meant whiping the llamas ass!
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