Ask YC: What streaming radio stations do you listen to while hacking?

2 pointsby thomasswiftvor 19 Jahren5 comments

I am adding sort of a streaming radio ripper to my site, but different streams use different methods of the address for the stream, .m3u and .pls contain different data. I am looking to gather a bit of test data. So if you could let me know what is the address or the name of any stream you listen to. I'd be grateful. Thanks.

5 comments

sambvor 19 Jahren

recently i've been listening to recordings of street noise from my walk to work. it seems to be helping me achieve flow faster. i get my best flow when walking to work, so i figure i'd try it. anyone else interested in trying out some of these recordings? i'll post them if there's interest in an experiment.

zachvor 19 Jahren

That's a cool idea. I'd be interested, although by the measure of where I have useful ideas, I should instead listen to a recording of a shower. A very calming form of white noise, although it could precipitate increased restroom usage.

I often get into the groove of the sonic landscapes at Quiet American's One Minute Vacations and wish for longer versions:

http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.html

There is one link there to a streaming server that serves up a long-form field recording for your testing:

http://69.64.229.114:8000/

alfavor 19 Jahren

The stuff at SomaFM and dj dusty's Afternoon Nap help get me in the zone.

http://somafm.com/

http://www.downtempo.org/

rmsvor 19 Jahren

http://www.pandora.com

http://www.last.fm

I hope they merge eventually.

thomasswiftvor 19 Jahren

thanks all!