Radio Free Fedi
radiofreefedi.net
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 :)

  • CrisOPEnglish
    27•28 days ago

    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 :)

  • xigoiEnglish
    10•28 days ago

    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.

    • CrisOPEnglish
      2•28 days ago

      Thats fair. I’d guess it probably helps get people to contribute, since it’s a community-run kinda thing

    • CrisOPEnglish
      4•28 days ago

      I didn’t know you could use VLC for internet radio! Nifty ☺️

      • @ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•28 days ago

        Fun fact: that was the original idea behind VLC! You could connect to video (and audio) streams. Hence, “VideoLAN.”

        • CrisOPEnglish
          2•28 days ago

          Huh, that makes sense. Someday I need to sit down and learn all the shit vlc let’s you do. Some of it seems like it’d be helpful to me if I actually knew how to use it 😅

          • TimeSquirrel
            3•28 days ago

            I had a setup with a Raspberry Pi where I could say a command to a Google speaker to view my front door camera, which would turn my living room TV on, switch to the Pi, load VLC, and stream the camera via it’s built in MPEG server. It was a pretty shaky Rube Goldberg-esque system triggering a bunch of stuff using IFTTT.

            • CrisOPEnglish
              4•28 days ago

              Thats honestly fuckin dope. I use google home automation for helping manage a medical condition and at some point I really wanna switch to home assistant

    • CrisOPEnglish
      3•28 days ago

      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!

  • palordrolap
    6•28 days ago

    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.)

    • CrisOPEnglish
      3•28 days ago

      You’re very welcome :) hope you have a good one!

    • CrisOPEnglish
      2•28 days ago

      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

  • @Imhotep@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•28 days ago

    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?

    • CrisOPEnglish
      4•28 days ago

      Are you getting a captcha to view radiofreefedi.net? I’m sorry it’s giving you trouble, I fuckin hate those :(

    • CrisOPEnglish
      3•28 days ago

      You’re very welcome :) have a good one!