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Computer viking posted:Speaking of old tech that's still around: Web radio. There's something fun about diving into local radio from a second-tier town from rural Peru or whatever. radio garden is neat - and I'm sure there are more normal directories out there. (To contribute, Norway's NRK has their at https://radio.nrk.no/ . Apologies for the interface. Try P13.) what was the program/site called that you could basically just stream your winamp playlist to the world, and also set it up that you could control your own station remotely? that was the coolest loving poo poo back in like 2001 and a bunch of radio stations popped up before they got sued into oblivion for broadcasting without paying royalties
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Plinkey posted:what was the program/site called that you could basically just stream your winamp playlist to the world, and also set it up that you could control your own station remotely? that was the coolest loving poo poo back in like 2001 and a bunch of radio stations popped up before they got sued into oblivion for broadcasting without paying royalties Shoutcast?
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Was that audioscrobbler? Shoutcast? I don’t remember
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Computer viking posted:Shoutcast? yeah, that's it
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Feb 20, 2021 04:07
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Yeah, shoutcast ruled. Used to get kids on my local punk site to host radio shows and stuff, a ton of fun for sure.
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Feb 20, 2021 04:08
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FM is alive an well in New Zealand. I am lucky enough to have this station near me, who have been streaming online since the 90's. https://95bfm.com/
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Feb 20, 2021 04:32
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EL BROMANCE posted:
Sirius XM hasn't had commercials in years... Even before the merger. And they still don't, at least not on the music channels. Some of the news/sports channels do from what I understand. But who the hell listens to those? I subscribe to it for my car, only because if you threaten to cancel they give it to you for like $3 a month. FM radio is terrible and I don't always feel like screwing with my phone.
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Feb 20, 2021 04:46
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I love web-streaming lovely FM stations from where I grew up.
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They have commercials on the comedy channels, I'm guessing they have to pay more for those or something.
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I really like some of the channels on SXM that play deeper cuts from their respective genres. I really miss Backspin, I haven't listened much to LL Cool J's station but Backspin played some great music. The reason I begged my wife to maintain our sub after her free trial ran out was Tiesto's channel though, gently caress it was good. Still listen to it on Youtube, but I miss driving home in late evenings to it. Also my wife listens to a lot of reggaeton on it and they play some real good poo poo on those stations
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SXM is ok but I eventually got bored of it. They play the same songs over and over again and I didn't see the point to keep paying them anymore when I can just listen to podcasts and spotify. Unsubscribing was a real bitch because I had to keep telling the guy on the phone what I liked about the serivce and constantly say "I don't want it anymore" before he finally let me cancel, because you can't just click cancel on the website. If you really want satellite radio, go for it, but it's really easy to sign up and a bitch and a half to get rid of it.
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EL BROMANCE posted:It’s quite insane how many FM stations there are where I live in the US compared to where I lived in the UK. I don’t even wanna look at the differences on AM. The AM spectrum is absolutely packed where I am. It's pretty fun to scan around and find stations that focus on non-English music or weird religious stuff.
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Feb 20, 2021 05:21
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SHOUTcast was great, even after Winamp had removed official SHOUTcast tv support you could still find several streams that really felt like pirate tv. 24 hour mst3k, family guy, and venture brothers, streams dedicated to old movies and tv shows, and one dude streaming multiple channels out of the Netherlands with an impressive array of fox, tbs, and cartoon network adult animated shows. Those channels were a constant companion while i was working towards my degrees from 2010 - 2013. They mostly disappeared when Winamp got sold. The guy from nl kept going for a while but eventually gave up because it just wasn't worth it to maintain the servers and keep the streams going for the 12 people that were still watching. Those channels really made me happy in a way that's hard to put into words and i was pretty sad when they went away.
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stevewm posted:Sirius XM hasn't had commercials in years... Even before the merger. Yeah the journey I was talking about was FM, that’s why I subscribed. I listened to a bit of the Progress channel during the election and it had ads which surprised me. Also made me laugh as callers could just go on air and say ‘yeah we loving need to get rid of this trump rear end in a top hat’ and the host would just respond ‘agreed man’. So it’s better than MSNBC at least.
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Wait you could do video on shoutcast too?  Man I feel like I missed out, pirate TV over shoutcast sounds awesome
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During the couple of years in the mid 2000s that I spent reading /v/ I remember watching people on there streaming games over shoutcast in... 2006? Which is kinda wild to think about tbh
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Code Jockey posted:Wait you could do video on shoutcast too? I think shoutcast had to have been some of the first live video I ever watched online. I've still got some NSV recordings saved from 2005 and they don't like to play back in VLC that well.
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Code Jockey posted:Wait you could do video on shoutcast too? I was going to point you to the last .nsv channel that I knew of but it looks like his stream has been down since 2019. Fortunately there was another channel which i thought had ended but they didn't and actually have multiple channels now. I don't want to do filez though so I'll pm you
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Code Jockey posted:Wait you could do video on shoutcast too? Wow you really missed out. I had a pirate TV channel over radio waves by ramping up a signal on an old 80s RF video sender 20 years ago. A few mates on the street could tune in.
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Feb 20, 2021 10:25
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I remember one that just played Sifl and Olly episodes all day.
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Computer viking posted:Speaking of old tech that's still around: Web radio. There's something fun about diving into local radio from a second-tier town from rural Peru or whatever. radio garden is neat - and I'm sure there are more normal directories out there. (To contribute, Norway's NRK has their at https://radio.nrk.no/ . Apologies for the interface. Try P13.) My parents' car has a web radio app that seems to have an impossibly large selection of radio stations from all over the globe. Sound quality was a bit eh on some of them but it was still pretty interesting to have an essentially endless list of stations to pick from in the car, rather than just the lovely local FM offerings (they live in the middle of the woods in a really small town and receive just a small handful of stations). That said, since the UI is a bit clunky it's not really a proper radio replacement in the sense that you could just switch stations once an ad break hits. Once you pick a station, you're committed to it unless you have a co-pilot just to fiddle with the web radio app on the infotainment screen.
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doctorfrog posted:they should completely decriminalize pirate radio in the US. The AM/FM bands should just belong to humans now. I know you're joking, but as a ham who's already had to see people deal with fuckwits blasting on any frequency their $20 Baofeng supports as part of their mission to be the "most tactical", I'm having a nightmare. (Though, there are a lot of LPFM (Low Power FM) stations around that are community run; it would be very easy to get a show on one of them)
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Shoutcast the protocol is still very much around, tunein radio for instance still uses shoutcast (almost all icecast now though) mp3 as a primary input for terrestrial broadcasters.
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Qwijib0 posted:Shoutcast the protocol is still very much around, tunein radio for instance still uses shoutcast (almost all icecast now though) mp3 as a primary input for terrestrial broadcasters. There's also just straight up a bunch of dedicated Shoutcast/Icecast stations just blasting into the void.
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Cojawfee posted:SXM is ok but I eventually got bored of it. They play the same songs over and over again and I didn't see the point to keep paying them anymore when I can just listen to podcasts and spotify. Unsubscribing was a real bitch because I had to keep telling the guy on the phone what I liked about the serivce and constantly say "I don't want it anymore" before he finally let me cancel, because you can't just click cancel on the website. If you really want satellite radio, go for it, but it's really easy to sign up and a bitch and a half to get rid of it.
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GI_Clutch posted:I remember one that just played Sifl and Olly episodes all day. I remember that one. During a university crunch I also half-watched the entire run of Love Hina even though I don't like anime. I can still hear the theme song.
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doctorfrog posted:I remember that one. During a university crunch I also half-watched the entire run of Love Hina even though I don't like anime. I can still hear the theme song. Jesus, Love Hina takes me back. The theme song was dope, done by Megumi Hayasubara, who was also everywhere on shoutcast streams.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I am not sure if it depends more on the person you end up talking to or why you are cancelling, but when I angrily called to cancel when they replaced my precious 40s station with a Billy Joel station the guy did not even really question me, other than to say "well we still have Siriusly Sinatra, you can" "FRANK SINATRA IS GARBAGE, GIVE ME 100 VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL INSTRUMENTAL BIG BAND JAMS OR GIVE ME DEATH" yeah, I probably said that I wish I remembered the song on there that was basically "Ladies, do your hair and makeup, clean the house, and have dinner ready because maybe your man will decide to wander if you're a slob!" 
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FilthyImp posted:40s junction is still around. Though sometimes (Christmas especially) it might get bumped. Though those lyrics also instantly make me think of "Wives & Lovers," which proves basically nothing had changed by the early 1960s. Sexism: Tech Relic
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My love of 50s on 5 is repeatedly tested by the singers' apparent love of 15 year olds.
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Yeah Elvis was a pedo
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I was an early XM adopter when they were more DJ heavy. 80s on 8 had Erik Estrada's daughter as a DJ and she was hilarious.
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Goober Peas posted:I was an early XM adopter when they were more DJ heavy. 80s on 8 had Erik Estrada's daughter as a DJ and she was hilarious. Mark McGrath has a show on 90s for 9 which he solely seems to do in order to play Sugar Ray, in order to cash the check.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Mark McGrath has a show on 90s for 9 which he solely seems to do in order to play Sugar Ray, in order to cash the check. yep lol
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EL BROMANCE posted:Mark McGrath has a show on 90s for 9 which he solely seems to do in order to play Sugar Ray, in order to cash the check!  Dr. Quarex posted:Though those lyrics also instantly make me think of "Wives & Lovers," which proves basically nothing had changed by the early 1960s. Sexism: Tech Relic Man, what the gently caress, Burt Baccarach!
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Sirius XM is a decent value if you have to travel a lot and don't mind calling every year to 6 months to "cancel". Almost every time I call to cancel, they offer me a rate that is about 10-20% of the regular sub cost. And even when they don't and I do actually cancel, I get mail/email offers soon after. Their business model is entirely about getting people to sub and forget, and are willing to offer up cheap subs to chase that. I like Tom Morello's show on Lithium. While he does play a lot of RATM, Audioslave, and his solo stuff, there's a bunch of other interesting music too. He usually co-hosts it with his 97 year old mother, and she's awesome.
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torgo posted:Sirius XM is a decent value if you have to travel a lot and don't mind calling every year to 6 months to "cancel". Almost every time I call to cancel, they offer me a rate that is about 10-20% of the regular sub cost. And even when they don't and I do actually cancel, I get mail/email offers soon after. Their business model is entirely about getting people to sub and forget, and are willing to offer up cheap subs to chase that. I guess it is best for people who are always driving. Not so great if you drive for a short amount of time at the same time every day. They definitely seem to have a schedule to what they play and I was hearing the same songs every day and got sick of it.
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I think it might be a company-specific service, but one of my local Safeways has a gloriously insane music stream in-store. It jumps around between eras and genres with no regard for mortal sensibilities. I've heard it go from Dave Brubek to Eurythmics to Bing Crosby to recent stuff. I heard the jazz version of Yes's Roundabout in there, which I didn't even know was a thing. If I could somehow get that stream in the car I would totally do it, Safeway ads and announcements included.
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I paid for the lifetime subscription to Sirius way back in like 2007 and they are trying so drat hard to kick me off it. when I transferred it between cars they wanted me to send in a bill of sale for the new car. They also won’t transfer it to another radio in the event of an accident unless you send in a police report. It’s loving insane. They must hate the lifetime subs
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