Shonan Beach FM, based in Japan. 'Lofi Japanese jazz', I guess? When I lived in a house with a HomePod I had a shortcut hey Siri, Shonan Beach! that was activated most mornings. This was on all day as a low-volume background track. Love it.
One unfortunate property of radio.garden is it doesn’t give you the actual stream links (IIRC it proxies the M3Us through its own server), because lock-in I guess? I’d be happy to be proven wrong here, because the site is otherwise excellent.
I came upon a French-language radio station catalogue a while ago, and that did have the original links, but I’ve lost the tab since then :( ETA: It was https://www.programmes-radio.com/en/streaming/, and I was misremembering: they don’t show the original playlist link either, but they do use it in their streaming widget, so it’s a only short trip to the Network tab of the browser’s devtools away.
Thanks! I typically access through Apple Music, which itself goes via TuneIn. Not a delightful experience, but the only one that works on a HomePod.
LeoPanthera · 1h ago
I wanted to listen to radio from Iran for obvious political reasons but there doesn't seem to be any on Radio Garden.
So I listened to some radio from Iraq since it was next door, and it was a music station, and the music was really good. I couldn't understand the lyrics but it was very enjoyable.
rester324 · 6h ago
Interesting, I haven't heard of this station before, but most of the Shonan area has the vibe of a surf village so the music pretty much matches that vibe. Sounds like a station I'll visit more often.
Kozmik1 · 1h ago
I've been using Radio Garden for years.
A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations.
Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more.
I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world.
The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however...
I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.
It's remarkable to me that TV Garden has BBC channels from the UK. Except for World/News, those channels are not (supposed to be) available outside the UK. I wonder how they're getting them.
Then I look at the place on Google street view (or satellite view of not available). And try to imagine the life of people there.
Then I go to Wikipedia to read about the place and then this is the end: I spend over or two hours reading randomly about loosely related topics.
Serendipity is a wonderful thing
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Shonan Beach FM, based in Japan. 'Lofi Japanese jazz', I guess? When I lived in a house with a HomePod I had a shortcut hey Siri, Shonan Beach! that was activated most mornings. This was on all day as a low-volume background track. Love it.
https://radio.garden/listen/shonan-beach-fm-78-9/qg9qo6VR
(I was in Australia, timezone-adjacent. YMMV if you're connecting at 03:00 Tokyo time. Also they do a lot of talking on the weekends.)
One unfortunate property of radio.garden is it doesn’t give you the actual stream links (IIRC it proxies the M3Us through its own server), because lock-in I guess? I’d be happy to be proven wrong here, because the site is otherwise excellent.
I came upon a French-language radio station catalogue a while ago, and that did have the original links, but I’ve lost the tab since then :( ETA: It was https://www.programmes-radio.com/en/streaming/, and I was misremembering: they don’t show the original playlist link either, but they do use it in their streaming widget, so it’s a only short trip to the Network tab of the browser’s devtools away.
So I listened to some radio from Iraq since it was next door, and it was a music station, and the music was really good. I couldn't understand the lyrics but it was very enjoyable.
A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations.
Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used to be a station called Radio Gumbe, but I can't find it any more.
I'd love a plugin to MS Flight Sim 2020 which would play a local radio station as I fly over any location in the world.
The worst part is having the immersion interrupted by localized ads for a US car dealer, credit card or VPN service. I guess one could pass custom location information to Radio Garden however...
I also find this so good to get context on the opinion on the US from outside the US, listening to call-in radio news shows from the UK, for example.
EDIT: I meant whiping the llamas ass!