I am sure a lot of us Lemmings have known about SomaFM forever. But i always like to show new people !

https://somafm.com/

Soma is one of my favorite ways to learn about new music. And, their Christmas stations are a good alternative typical playlists.

Indie pop rocks is my go to when I don’t know what I’m in the mood for.

And their Xmas stations are always great

Do these have actual human djs? Not a criticism, just wondering

Love me some SomaFM, for more variety I also like to listen in ByteFM (also ad-free since 2008).
DJs are talking german, but their mixes are unmatched. My favorite way of discovering new music.

They have curators, who create the playlist and select the songs, but they are not live mixing or selecting what's is going to play. In each of the stations you can check the bio of the people behind the music selection.

They need $12k funding in the next four days.

The curation is human yes. There are prerecorded snippets of the djs throughout the day.

Sadly I doubt there are many 24/7 live DJs today. Though I'd love that job!

Their underground 80s station was a regular listen for me about 10 years ago. Glad to see they’re still going!

Yeah Rusty Hodge is the original I think but there are a bunch covering the different stations

Used to listen to it all the time, and there to to know great music. My SomaFM t-shirt is still going strong but is going to become a pijama any day soon.

I started listening to that station in high school. In the 90s.

Edit: OK I guess I didn’t…

Somafm is the best! Fluid is my favorite channel and I feel asleep to their mission control channel for years

SomaFM is awesome. Please support.

Their eclectic Christmas channels are on 24/7 in my house during December. And Groove Salad can turn any get-together into a classy chill.

“Groove Salad is sponsored by, oh wait, we don’t have sponsors”

Dig it thanks for sharing. Donated

SomaFM is the GOAT for chillout / ambient / triphop. Been listening to their Groove Salad channel since 2005 and still do to this day. Paying for it for as long as I've had a decent job. The only non-FOSS sticker worthy of my university laptop:

Everyone should listen to SomaFM!

My god, Christmas Lounge has been a sanity saver ever since certain elements began insisting on "Christmas music" in December at home.

Huzzah!

I just dropped 20 bucks! Always worth it for over 2 decades of Secret Agent.

I've actually encountered a lot of free radio streams with human DJs for at least the majority of the day. Two off the top of my head:

https://www.nts.live/

https://www.thelotradio.com/ (this one even has a camera on the DJ)

I also like to listen in ByteFM

Okay, I see their station list, but am not seeing a lounge channel. I haven't heard a good lounge channel for centuries, and Soma's "Groove Salad" station has gotten stale over the years.

90's? You listening via a time warp? Station went online in 2000.

Or are you talking about Rusty's micro-FM station that he ran from his basement in '99.

I did not know of this. Thank you.

Did it? Man, my memory must be a bit fuzzy…

For dnb there's also

jungletrain.net

bassdrive.com

These are sadly more shows than stations which means you have to keep in mind when a show or its rerun is playing and also that their sometimes a show playing you really do not vibe with. I do not think they have comparable show to "Groove Salad" and their rather verbose show naming does not help there.

Groove Crates goes a little into the same direction, but the spectrum and genres they are playing is a lot wider and has a lot more funk, soul featured.

Danke! So... do I have to listen via webplayer, or can it play through my WinAmp, Foobar2000, etc?

Your welcome :) They do have direct links you can import there I think. Only did that with cmus myself though.
Main station: https://bytefm.stream39.radiohost.de/bytefm-mainhq_mp3-320
and they also have an alternative station which only runs music, but im not sure what schedule it is following: https://bytefm.stream39.radiohost.de/bytefm-nurmusikhq_mp3-192

One of the best web sites ever. I just turn on Synphaera and then off the background music in RPGs, it is a nice change.

Absolute truth

they should! the browser version works fine though

Not quite the same but radio.garden is cool too

LOL! Yeah.. It's okay, we've all been there at one time or another.

I had just discovered soma fm in the fall of 2000 as I'd hit on listening to radio stations from around the world, and I used the old MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet (now rebranded as radio-locator.com) to find stations that offered streams.

It was an epiphany that there were stations that ONLY were on the web as I was mostly hunting down terrestrial broadcast stations (one of my faves at the time was a New Zealand student station - Radio-active 88.6 - it still exists!) and once I'd found a mac version of Winamp that opened .pls links, I was off and running.

It was a heady time to be there as it all unfolded. The sense of discvovery was sharp.. more than it is now, that's for sure.

Around our house, it's "Department Store Christmas". I can only take a few hours at a time before I switch it back to "Groove Salad".

I can only take a few hours at a time

It's not much but it's honest work!

Left coast 70s is my go-to to test a new client audio install. It has never offended anyone and is always "fresh".

i also like sub.fm

Wow those are some old names. I guess I had forgotten Foobar2000.

You keep being groovy, you!

Speaking of groovy, WinAmp got an modern upgrade a couple years ago, and has all those awesome visualizers built in. Plus it still has the Shoutcast network, altho I think that feature has been kind of dying over the years, not sure.

No reason not to keep using it, far as I know...

I use Sleep as Android as my alarm (purchased it when it wasnt absurdly priced) and use SomaFM for waking up. New song every day, and sometimes I will save the song to listen later.

I love coding to groove salad.

Also not quite the same but I think radiooooo.com is fun

I can't believe I've never heard of this! Thanks for posting!!

Drone Zone is great for sleep.

Been a while since I last listened to SomaFM, they have a couple of good channels for sure.

Always updoot SomaFM.

Cliqhop, Suburbs of Goa, Groove Salad, and Drone Zone really expanded my exposure to genres like ambient, drone, lounge, neo soul, world beats, and electronic. I feel I became a more well-rounded enjoyer of music because of this station, and it deserves all the attention and donations it can get.

I thought that was a joke then I opened it and saw phish basically every six songs. Hell yeah if you love phish

Groove Salad is my absolute favorite to get in the zone and work. Very few vocals, which I prefer as hearing vocals and trying to read is annoying for me.