Discovered SomaFM thanks to HN and in love with the SF 10-33 (SF police scanner mixed with ambient).<p>For those of you loving the “deeply-focused and manually curated music channel” vibe, I can only recommend to check out Digitally Imported (di.fm), which I started listening for free and turned into a paying user for years now.
They now own many apps, each featuring its own music style (electronic music, jazz, classical, rock, zen, etc.).<p>Some live shows are popping up from time to time, adding a bit of “social experience” on top, but the overall feeling I have is exactly the same as the people commenting there: what a pleasure to just log on a very specialized channel fitting your current listening needs and only have quality sounds fulfilling those needs. No add, no commercial tune, no fuss: only rare versions of quality music organized in <i>extremely</i> consistent channels.<p>Friends at home for a relaxed moment? Why not tuning to “Late night jazz”?
Aggressive repetitive coding: “Goa Psy Trance” will put you in the proper “copy-paste” mood.
Long driving session: “Deep progressive” that is!<p>Apart from pleasing your ears, the valuable outcome (at a time of AI-propelled tracklists that will only push you to listen to the same mainstream music as your neighbours) is that you’ll gradually build a sense of what you like exactly, and when you like it exactly.
Thanks for the reminder! I’ve been listening to this since sometime in the late 90s early 2000s. I spent so much time focused because of this, and it became a formative part of my music taste in high school.<p>I am a downtempo person so classic Groove Salad kept me going.
I've been grooving to Groove Salad for decades now. Every morning I boot up Webamp (Winamp clone) on my website with SomaFM's playlist and the Butterchurn (Milkdrop clone) visualization in desktop mode. Hope to do it for decades to come.
I don’t think it’s as useful as somafm but In a similar vein, JetBrains fired out an email a few weeks ago with links to some Spotify and YouTube playlists they curated for coding.<p>You’d need to be using paid subscriptions or something like SponsorBlock in your browser so you didn’t constantly get jarred out of flow by adverts.<p>It’s still in my inbox I just haven’t got around to checking it out yet so not sure if it’s any good.<p>A Quick Look just now e.g. <a href="https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUa1dA8101V-V7iesN8CgqfY" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUa1dA8101...</a> - suggests it might not be for me. The only genre that seems to work for me is video game music (elevated energy but with no vocals and limited beats).
Thankfully works with Web Scrobbler [1] too.<p>[1] <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-scrobbler/hhinaapppaileiechjoiifaancjggfjm?pli=1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-scrobbler/hhina...</a>
Just a post because I feel like it's been a while. I dunno what their finances are like but I panic at the thought of them not being here some day.<p>Consider donating and if you don't listen, check. it. out.<p>Some of my favorite beats of all time I found while listening. The Trip (formerly Tag's Trip) has always been a top all-time coding sound for me.
I'm a listener for heaven knows how long, should be close to 20, writing this while being tuned into Space Station. My PhD thesis' epigraph was from a song that I listened way to many times on Secret Agent or Groove Salad. One of my first IoT project was deploying a SomaFM player remotely to a Raspberry Pi. Back in the day 2nd hand CDs from Amazon, now I regularly search on Bandcamp for something I just heard on one of the channels, and voila, have a larger album collection from there than ever before. Such strong influence on my musical taste.<p>Thank you Rusty! <a href="https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty</a><p>I think my t-shirt is getting worn out, it's time to get some more swag.
They have a very handy Mac app: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/somafm-radio-player/id406262816" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/somafm-radio-player/id40626281...</a><p>Maybe one of the ways to support them.