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title: A (small) guide to indie internet radios
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author: tsui
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papersize: a5
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pagestyle: empty
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geometry: margin=0cm
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output: pdf_document
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---
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You're back home from a tiring day out. You want to relax listening to
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some music. You have acquired lots of music along your journey
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throughout the Internet. However, you don't want to listen to any of
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it right now. You don't want to deal with the decision paralysis of
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youtube or bandcamp either. Furthermore, spotify and friends are out
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of the question. Lastly, your old radio doesn't catch any frequency
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that's interesting to you.
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But there's hope. While your old radio can't catch much more than
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what's physically near it, the internet radios got you covered.
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Internet radios come in many varieties. Some of them are just the
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internet version of old-school radios, and many of those are mostly
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available to be listened through their website only, so they can track
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you, show you ads, or cut the streaming after you haven't been engaged
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to their website for some time. Worst case scenario, they require you
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to get their android/ios app that's riddled with who knows what.
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I won't bother with those. I will focus on just a few Internet radios
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that are available both through a webfront and a direct streaming
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link, so you can tune in using a browser, or a media player when the
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former is inconvenient.
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## Tilderadio
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Link: [tilderadio.org](https://tilderadio.org)
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I can't start without mentioning tilderadio. Tilderadio is the online
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radio of the tildeverse. Members of the tildeverse request time slots
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and stream things to their liking. There are shows dedicated to music
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playlists and talk shows. Highly recommended.
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### Link for media player
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- https://azuracast.tilderadio.org/radio/8000/radio.ogg
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## Anonradio
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Link: [anonradio.net](https://anonradio.net)
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One of oldest pubnixes is is the [Super Dimension Fortress Public
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Access UNIX system](https://sdf.org), or SDF for short. The folks at
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sdf maintain [anonradio.net](https://anonradio.net). Like tilderadio,
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anonradio operates on a volunteer basis, with DJs being members of the
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sdf. There's a wide selection of music shows. Rock, synthpop, metal,
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electronic, dubiousness, partying, languages, old and new. There's
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something for almost everybody.
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### Link for media player
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- https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
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## SOMA FM
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Link: [somafm.com](https://somafm.com/)
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Soma fm is an entirely listener-supported independent radio with
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as many as 30 channels dedicated to different music genres.
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- Do you like a mysterious sountrack in the background? [The secret agent channel](https://somafm.com/secretagent/)
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might be of interest to you.
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- Are you hacking together that project that has been keeping you
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awake for many nights? Check out [the DEF CON radio channel](https://somafm.com/defcon/).
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- You haven't had enough of 70s style rock and wish you could
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hear more of it? Here's [Left Coast 70s](https://somafm.com/seventies/).
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- You prefer the synthpop of the 80s? Here's some more too at
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[Underground 80s](https://somafm.com/u80s/).
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And many more channels for you to explore, playing obscure and popular tracks
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within the genre of the station.
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### Link for media player
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There are too many channels to list all of them, see the webpage for the other
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channels for more ways to listen to them.
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- http://ice.somafm.com/secretagent
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- http://ice.somafm.com/defcon
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- http://ice.somafm.com/u80s
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## Lainchan radio
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Link: [lainon.life](https://lainon.life/)
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While lainchan is itself an anonymous image board, with all the controversy
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that entails, their radio project has given me many hours of enjoyment and
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i believe it should be treated seperately from the place it comes
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from. It has 4 channels.
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- Cyberia, for electronic music in the style of the popular japanese
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anime series Serial Experiments Lain's Cyberia Club.
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- Cafe, for touhou arrangements, relaxing soundtracks and mellow pop-rock
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songs. This is my favorite channel and the radio i listen to the most.
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- Swing, for swing, jazz and blues music. Very soothing, energizing or both!
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- Everything, a combination of all previous channels.
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### Link for media player
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- https://lainon.life/radio/cyberia.ogg
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- https://lainon.life/radio/cafe.ogg
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- https://lainon.life/radio/swing.ogg
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- https://lainon.life/radio/everything.ogg
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## KMFA 89.5
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Link: [www.kmfa.org](https://www.kmfa.org/)
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This is an old-school radio station located in Austin, Texas, that happens to
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have an online streaming channel that fits within the constraints of this guide.
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Their focus is classical music. Their offer ranges from Baroque, to the Modern
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period, including classical arrangements of contemporary pop songs. Chamber, Cantata,
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Concerto, Mass, Opera, and so on, you can find all of those here. This is the single
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best radio for all of you classical music fans.
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### Link for media player
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- https://kmfa.streamguys1.com/KMFA-mp3
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## R/a/dio
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Link: [r-a-d.io](https://r-a-d.io/)
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This radio station is also part of the community of an anonymous image
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board, but it can be safely ignored.
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They focus mostly on anime and game soundtracks, if that's your jam,
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you will probably like this. It's also possible to request songs, but
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i haven't used this feature, so i don't know if it works.
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### Link for media player
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- https://relay0.r-a-d.io/main.mp3
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## Hackers.town radio
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Link: [hackers.town](https://hackers.town)
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Hackers.town is a fediverse instance that also happens to have an radio
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stream that i discovered by chance. Their music selection is very
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eclectic, so whatever label i might throw will probably be too narrow.
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I can't recommend it enough, very nice tunes there!
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### Link for media player
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- https://radio.hackers.town:8000/
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## Wrapping up
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These are only a handful of the hundreds, if not thousands, of online
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radios that you can find online, and they were subject to my own
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tastes and technical preferences. But surely there's a radio out there
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that's more suited to your own likes. If you feel like exploring this
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world, i would be thrilled to know your findings and get to know more
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radios. If you'd like to do so, please mail me to tsui@sdf.org.
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Happy listening!
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