alt Hacker NewsSimilar experience and I would never trade it in a lifetime.
For the “me” today, new music discovery is all about live radio. and I don’t mean pop/satellite/corporate programmed radio. I mean radio where a human still cares.
I mostly use radio.garden (sometimes TuneIn) and find crazy local stations around the world.
K-Pop from Seoul, Parisian hiphop, live EDM from clubs in Ibiza, weird/fun island music from the remote pacific, random college radio. It’s all out there, live, amazing!
when I hear something I like, I “shazam” it, then add it to my library later. and I’m always smiling when shazam can’t find any match.
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radio.garden (and many others) got neutered in the UK courts by Sony. Offensive, short-sighted, Balkanizing decision.
I haven't bought a Sony product since the rootkit debacle. My only regret is that there's not a "boycott++" mode for the damage they did with that decision.
Live radio has that someone is actually there feeling that playlists never really have