zine7/submissions/tsui/.metatext.md

You're back home from a tiring day out. You want to relax listening to some
music. You have acquired lots of music along your journey throughout the
Internet. However, you don't want to listen to any of it right now. You don't
want to deal with the decision paralysis of youtube or bandcamp either.
Furthermore, spotify and friends are out of the question. Lastly, your old
radio doesn't catch any frequency that's interesting to you.

But there's hope. While your old radio can't catch much more than what's
physically near it, the internet radios got you covered.

Internet radios come in many varieties. Some of them are just the internet
version of old-school radios, and many of those are mostly available to be
listened through their website only, so they can track you, show you ads, or
cut the streaming after you haven't been engaged to their website for some
time. Worst case scenario, they require you to get their android/ios app that's
riddled with who knows what.

I won't bother with those. I will focus on just a few Internet radios that are
available both through a webfront and a direct streaming link, so you can tune
in using a browser, or a media player when the former is inconvenient.

## Tilderadio

Link: [tilderadio.org](https://tilderadio.org) 

I can't start without mentioning tilderadio. Tilderadio is the online radio of
the tildeverse. Members of the tildeverse request time slots and stream things
to their liking. There are shows dedicated to music playlists and talk shows.
Highly recommended.

### Link for media player 

- https://azuracast.tilderadio.org/radio/8000/radio.ogg

## Anonradio

Link: [anonradio.net](https://anonradio.net) 

One of oldest pubnixes is is the [Super Dimension Fortress Public Access UNIX
system](https://sdf.org), or SDF for short. The folks at sdf maintain
[anonradio.net](https://anonradio.net). Like tilderadio, anonradio operates on
a volunteer basis, with DJs being members of the sdf. There's a wide selection
of music shows. Rock, synthpop, metal, electronic, dubiousness, partying,
languages, old and new. There's something for almost everybody.

### Link for media player 

- https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio

## SOMA FM

Link: [somafm.com](https://somafm.com/)

Soma fm is an entirely listener-supported independent radio with as many as 30
channels dedicated to different music genres.

- Do you like a mysterious sountrack in the background? [The secret agent
  channel](https://somafm.com/secretagent/) might be of interest to you.

- Are you hacking together that project that has been keeping you awake for
  many nights? Check out [the DEF CON radio
  channel](https://somafm.com/defcon/).

- You haven't had enough of 70s style rock and wish you could hear more of it?
  Here's [Left Coast 70s](https://somafm.com/seventies/).

- You prefer the synthpop of the 80s? Here's some more too at [Underground
  80s](https://somafm.com/u80s/).

And many more channels for you to explore, playing obscure and popular tracks
within the genre of the station.

### Link for media player 

There are too many channels to list all of them, see the webpage for the other
channels for more ways to listen to them.

- http://ice.somafm.com/secretagent
- http://ice.somafm.com/defcon
- http://ice.somafm.com/u80s

## Lainchan radio

Link: [lainon.life](https://lainon.life/)

While lainchan is itself an anonymous image board, with all the controversy
that entails, their radio project has given me many hours of enjoyment and
i believe it should be treated seperately from the place it comes from. It has
4 channels.

- Cyberia, for electronic music in the style of the popular japanese anime
  series Serial Experiments Lain's Cyberia Club.

- Cafe, for touhou arrangements, relaxing soundtracks and mellow pop-rock
  songs. This is my favorite channel and the radio i listen to the most.

- Swing, for swing, jazz and blues music. Very soothing, energizing or both!

- Everything, a combination of all previous channels.

### Link for media player 

- https://lainon.life/radio/cyberia.ogg
- https://lainon.life/radio/cafe.ogg
- https://lainon.life/radio/swing.ogg
- https://lainon.life/radio/everything.ogg

## KMFA 89.5

Link: [www.kmfa.org](https://www.kmfa.org/)

This is an old-school radio station located in Austin, Texas, that happens to
have an online streaming channel that fits within the constraints of this
guide.

Their focus is classical music. Their offer ranges from Baroque, to the Modern
period, including classical arrangements of contemporary pop songs. Chamber,
Cantata, Concerto, Mass, Opera, and so on, you can find all of those here. This
is the single best radio for all of you classical music fans.

### Link for media player 

- https://kmfa.streamguys1.com/KMFA-mp3

## R/a/dio

Link: [r-a-d.io](https://r-a-d.io/)

This radio station is also part of the community of an anonymous image board,
but it can be safely ignored.

They focus mostly on anime and game soundtracks, if that's your jam, you will
probably like this. It's also possible to request songs, but i haven't used
this feature, so i don't know if it works.

### Link for media player 

- https://relay0.r-a-d.io/main.mp3

## Hackers.town radio

Link: [hackers.town](https://hackers.town)

Hackers.town is a fediverse instance that also happens to have an radio stream
that i discovered by chance. Their music selection is very eclectic, so
whatever label i might throw will probably be too narrow. I can't recommend it
enough, very nice tunes there!

### Link for media player 

- https://radio.hackers.town:8000/

## Wrapping up

These are only a handful of the hundreds, if not thousands, of online radios
that you can find online, and they were subject to my own tastes and technical
preferences. But surely there's a radio out there that's more suited to your
own likes. If you feel like exploring this world, i would be thrilled to know
your findings and get to know more radios. If you'd like to do so, please mail
me to tsui@sdf.org.

Happy listening!