Radiofreefedi.net is a super cool internet radio with a couple stations that plays music from fediverse artists, along with a “words” station that plays non-music stuff like podcasts or other kinds of spoken programming
I’ve really enjoyed it and only learned about it cause someone here on lemmy mentioned it in passing, I thought I’d share so other folks know about it as well :)
I hate that it constantly plays advertisements for itself. Like, I’m already listening to you, I don’t need to be informed that you exist.
Thats fair. I’d guess it probably helps get people to contribute, since it’s a community-run kinda thing
Thought I’d comment to add: if you’re on android and enjoy using F-droid apps Transistor, and URL Radio are two great apps for listening to internet radio stations like radiofreefedi
I think URL radio is just a fork that was updated to material design 3, but transistor seems more actively maintained :)
radiodroid is also great. it’s an interface for radio-browser.info
I love F-Droid and Neo Store! (b ᵔ▽ᵔ)b
For those interested in getting into listening to internet radio, see also: https://dir.xiph.org (Icecast network) and https://directory.shoutcast.com (Shoutcast network), both of which have been around for ~25 years at this point if the domain registry is anything to go by. Definitely in their current forms for over a decade.
Caveat: Lots of commercial content and stations, which is, of course, antithetical to Fediverse ideology. Still worth a look if you can’t (yet) find what you want in the Fediverse.
(There’s also http://radio.garden which has a very pretty interface but has multiple negative points: in-browser only, needs a lot of JavaScript access to station-associated domains on a per-station basis, is HTTP(no S)-only and may not work for stations outside your own country.)
Thanks for the links!
Love that channel. If anyone wants to contribute: https://radiofreefedi.net/#contribute
They always need more music/voice/etc…content! Ive found and followed quite a few artists from Radio Free Fedi.
I was really surprised how much I liked some of the stuff that came on, there were some seriously cool tracks that played and I had a great time jamming out to it
Thanks for sharing links for folks to contribute!
Awesome project; super easy to set up the streams in VLC for anyone curious about that.
I didn’t know you could use VLC for internet radio! Nifty ☺️
Fun fact: that was the original idea behind VLC! You could connect to video (and audio) streams. Hence, “VideoLAN.”
Huh, that makes sense. Someday I need to sit down and learn all the shit vlc let’s you do. Some of it seems like it’d be helpful to me if I actually knew how to use it 😅
I had a setup with a Raspberry Pi where I could say a command to a Google speaker to view my front door camera, which would turn my living room TV on, switch to the Pi, load VLC, and stream the camera via it’s built in MPEG server. It was a pretty shaky Rube Goldberg-esque system triggering a bunch of stuff using IFTTT.
Thats honestly fuckin dope. I use google home automation for helping manage a medical condition and at some point I really wanna switch to home assistant
have these streams been added to radio-browser.info?
The three music radio stations have been, but the words channel has not yet.
I’ll probably go take another look at adding it at some point but it seemed like a pain on mobile
Cool. Thanks!
You’re very welcome :) hope you have a good one!
google captcha that will 100% fail the first time no matter how careful I am, sorry I can’t do it anymore, especially if I don’t know what I’m opening
and hasn’t it be established bots can solve those now and it’s just about the money?
Are you getting a captcha to view radiofreefedi.net? I’m sorry it’s giving you trouble, I fuckin hate those :(
Thanks!
You’re very welcome :) have a good one!
