Fediverse @lemmy.world Cris @lemmy.world 3w ago

You Should Know About Radio Free Fedi!

Sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe

Radiofreefedi.net is a super cool internet radio with a couple stations that plays music from fediverse artists, along with a "words" station that plays non-music stuff like podcasts or other kinds of spoken programming

I've really enjoyed it and only learned about it cause someone here on lemmy mentioned it in passing, I thought I'd share so other folks know about it as well :)

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Thought I'd comment to add: if you're on android and enjoy using F-droid apps Transistor, and URL Radio are two great apps for listening to internet radio stations like radiofreefedi

I think URL radio is just a fork that was updated to material design 3, but transistor seems more actively maintained :)
- I love F-Droid and Neo Store! (b ᵔ▽ᵔ)b
- radiodroid is also great. it's an interface for radio-browser.info
I hate that it constantly plays advertisements for itself. Like, I’m already listening to you, I don’t need to be informed that you exist.
- Thats fair. I'd guess it probably helps get people to contribute, since it's a community-run kinda thing
Awesome project; super easy to set up the streams in VLC for anyone curious about that.
- I didn't know you could use VLC for internet radio! Nifty ☺️
  
  Fun fact: that was the original idea behind VLC! You could connect to video (and audio) streams. Hence, "VideoLAN."
Love that channel. If anyone wants to contribute: https://radiofreefedi.net/#contribute

They always need more music/voice/etc...content! Ive found and followed quite a few artists from Radio Free Fedi.
- I was really surprised how much I liked some of the stuff that came on, there were some seriously cool tracks that played and I had a great time jamming out to it
  
  Thanks for sharing links for folks to contribute!
For those interested in getting into listening to internet radio, see also: https://dir.xiph.org (Icecast network) and https://directory.shoutcast.com (Shoutcast network), both of which have been around for ~25 years at this point if the domain registry is anything to go by. Definitely in their current forms for over a decade.

Caveat: Lots of commercial content and stations, which is, of course, antithetical to Fediverse ideology. Still worth a look if you can't (yet) find what you want in the Fediverse.

(There's also http://radio.garden which has a very pretty interface but has multiple negative points: in-browser only, needs a lot of JavaScript access to station-associated domains on a per-station basis, is HTTP(no S)-only and may not work for stations outside your own country.)
- Thanks for the links!
Cool. Thanks!
- You're very welcome :) hope you have a good one!
have these streams been added to radio-browser.info?
- The three music radio stations have been, but the words channel has not yet.
  
  I'll probably go take another look at adding it at some point but it seemed like a pain on mobile
google captcha that will 100% fail the first time no matter how careful I am, sorry I can't do it anymore, especially if I don't know what I'm opening

and hasn't it be established bots can solve those now and it's just about the money?
- Are you getting a captcha to view radiofreefedi.net? I'm sorry it's giving you trouble, I fuckin hate those :(
Thanks!
- You're very welcome :) have a good one!

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