Web radio streams
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I recently re-discovered the electro sound from HBR-1, which Rhythmbox has been shipping with for more than a decade now. The ambient mixes ("Dream Factory") can make great background soundtrack: regular enough to help focusing, not too dull, not too ear catching.
http://radio.hbr1.com/stream/ambient.ogg.
http://radio.hbr1.com/stream/ambient-low.ogg
The other two streams may come handy at times. Just not all the time.
Not sure where that hyphen came from. It's HBR1, or alternatively hbr1, as in http://www.hbr1.com.
These three have also survived various migrations over the years: Blue Heron Radio (traditional Japanese music, not for the faint hearted), Chinese Music World and Hawaiian Rainbow. There used to be a raga music radio but some playlist files disappeared in a time warp between two backups and I could not locate its uri.
Anyway, while looking for it, I stumbled upon this: an icecast server at 79.111.14.76:8000. I have not been listening long enough to have any clear idea of the overall content quality, but the vikingmetal stream especially helps me a lot hammering ice in the early winter mornings.
Wow, these are some harsh streams. Vikingmetal eh?
I guess my little soft, easy listening Lo-fi stream probably doesn't help you when you are hammering ice.
> my little soft, easy listening Lo-fi stream
It does help a lot while stroking the cat after hammering the ice.
Too bad, Blue Heron Radio has ceased to be:
https://blueheronradio.com
There are nice sources on archive.com, though:
Japanese Treasures - Koto, Shamisen, Shakuhachi
I love that scratchy phonograph sound.
Some very bored person made an entire 10-hour audio of nothing but phonograph noises: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=m5Mz9Tqs9CE
It's not scratchy and crackling enough for my tastes though.
Someone needs to make a Lofi streaming radio station with phonograph crackling sounds.
Indeed.
Did you also notice that side 2 has a 10-minute free, uncut, unblended phonograph noise session? I believe it is part of an advanced meditation program for those select ones who can keep up listening until the end.
The singer in that track is clearly singing "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" in Japanese. The only meditation part of it is when you feel the cold wet tentacle slip its way into your spinal canal, at about the 7 minute, 29 second mark.
Edit: No, 7 minute 29 seconds is when he feels the tentacle on his neck. 8 minutes 2 seconds is when it enters his spinal canal. The pitiful crying part.
Oh yes, Sakaya certainly is one of the best recordings of Cthulhu's most direct attack, live and direct. Or maybe more accurately, undead and direct.
However, I was referring to the whole side 2, which I initially downloaded as FLAC - not the right thing to do: the zipped mp3 is the way to go, except of course for meditation purposes. The FLAC versions have about 5 to 10 minutes of "empty" space at the end, with pure crackling phonograph sounds.
This would not be complete without the obligatory FIP radio reference: http://direct.fipradio.fr/live/fip-midfi.mp3.
In addition, they currently stream no less than seven specialized playlists: electro, world, reggae, nouveautes, groove, jazz and rock, availabe as fip*-midfi.mp3 on the same path. Highly recommendable stream sources, for content quality and audio quality alike. Track details can be found there: https://www.fip.fr/titres-diffuses.
Hope it helps.
I'm addicted to Lo-fi streaming radio, along with 500 million close friends - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A
Nice thing about Lo-fi is everything is free to download or to use in your online videos. Here's a nice representative example song - Mariana by Enra - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FmTOCg6aqFU
Easy to listen to while studying or coding.
Ah yes, good catch. I hit one of these not long ago while looking for something completely different. In the one you linked, I cannot see the cat's eyes, which makes me feel a bit uneasy. Maybe he's looking at your reflection in the window, with a disapproving look.
Talking about lofi, FIP also comes in 32kbps lofi (same uri, with lofi instead of midfi in the name) and 192kbps aac hifi (file name ends in hifi.aac) for the more bourgeois inclined among us. The midfi mp3 rate is 128kbps, but I just found out there also is a 96kbps aac midfi source, probably for the hybrid bourgeois bohemian user.
mp3 now being patent disencumbered, and thus better than aac in this respect, I would normally go for that one.
>"I cannot see the cat's eyes, which makes me feel a bit uneasy. Maybe he's looking at your reflection in the window, with a disapproving look."
Oh, then you want this Lo-fi stream: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DWcJFNfaw9c
Although the lazy cat never seems to open her eyes. Not sure if you can trust her any more - she's probably dreaming about facetiming with Cthulhu on her little cat iphone.
Whenever I feel like having some more coffee, only to realize I've already had aplenty, I'll now watch this:
https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=kMiBrqV_4FA
EDIT: there is also a morning version:
Nothing better than chilling to some lofi hip hop beats with Homer and Bart while drowning in coffee.
Born a worm...
Deeply philisophical. Makes me ask the eternal question - "what the f*** is that about?"
Born a worm again, Swiss version.
Note: I originally attached a zipped audio file here but am not 100% sure about the legality of that move, so here is the link to the source:
https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=0EU46hqpq10
Same artist, full show, live and outdoors, the Raft of the Useless, at a time when virus related restrictions had rocked the culture ship:
https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=R5H3sVneiLI
They lost some money in the process, but it brilliantly showed that people are willing to contribute freely to what they enjoy. All sessions were full. Maybe a new model for supporting artists? Maybe that money could be recovered by making the mastered recording available online? In fact they were able to recoup it with anonymous donations and help from friends.
Same people (minus one), same place, different weather:
Is there a straightforward way to "listen" to these lofi videos?
Not that I dislike the pictures, but playing it in abrowser is kind of a resource hog, while in the end what we are interested in is a rather small audio file.
EDIT: I am now using mpv. It is not exactly light, but already much lighter than abrowser.
>"I am now using mpv. It is not exactly light, but already much lighter than abrowser."
Use mpv's --no-video option if you just want to listen to the music and don't need the video. For example, here's the lofi girl stream audio via yewtu.be:
mpv --no-video https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A
I get a beautiful low level of 2%-8% cpu usage in this manner.
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