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"Every green dot is a radio station. Click any dot to listen in. It's like cultural teleportation." (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2021 OP
Awesome! Thank you!! Solly Mack Feb 2021 #1
And the larger dots show a list of stations to the left that those dots represent, 30 or 40 of them. TheBlackAdder Feb 2021 #44
Yes! Love the big dots! More, more, more. Solly Mack Feb 2021 #45
More, and then some. TheBlackAdder Feb 2021 #46
Paris has 453 stations davekriss Feb 2021 #54
This is so cool! Thanks! The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #2
Very badass! flying rabbit Feb 2021 #3
Been using this for since they put it out randr Feb 2021 #4
Pretty eye opening how American pop culture dominates the world. n/t Yavin4 Feb 2021 #36
CAUTION: If you have something planned in your life, do not click on that link. Yavin4 Feb 2021 #5
Thanks. Some of us definitely have that tendency! Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2021 #68
Very cool. Will it help them find me? cachukis Feb 2021 #6
That's pretty cool thinkingagain Feb 2021 #7
This is crazy good! nuxvomica Feb 2021 #8
Uh oh. redwitch Feb 2021 #9
What fun! Coolest indeed. Thanks! n/t moonscape Feb 2021 #10
If you're learning a language listening to radio MineralMan Feb 2021 #11
I've been doing this to relearn my German! bobandrileysmom Feb 2021 #29
I clicked on several stations in Europe, Sogo Feb 2021 #61
amazing and I'll be passing this around at work tomorrow Red Mountain Feb 2021 #12
You may be right Disaffected Feb 2021 #13
So far this is the OP of the Year IMHO!!!! Tommymac Feb 2021 #14
... Nevilledog Feb 2021 #18
Cool, thanks for posting! Nt USALiberal Feb 2021 #15
Be careful. It's a big ole dizzying rabbit hole. Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #16
Me too!!! Nt USALiberal Feb 2021 #23
Thank you mwmisses4289 Feb 2021 #17
Outstanding!! Remarkable technological achievement Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2021 #19
There's an app too if you have an iPhone. nolabear Feb 2021 #20
$3 removes the pop up adds too! USALiberal Feb 2021 #62
Wow! I tried listening to talk radio in Vladivostok, but Hortensis Feb 2021 #21
How Fabulous! Thank you! 🙂 electric_blue68 Feb 2021 #22
Wow. Iggo Feb 2021 #24
$3 removes the ads!! Nt USALiberal Feb 2021 #25
Wow, a station was missing and I requested it...... USALiberal Feb 2021 #58
KnR! Hekate Feb 2021 #26
Thanks For Sharing!!! This is One of The Most Awesome Things On the Internet. Indykatie Feb 2021 #27
Thanks for posting, this is fun! n/t Mr.Bill Feb 2021 #28
That. Is. Incredible. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #30
cant get the site to work for me . AllaN01Bear Feb 2021 #31
It doesn't work for me either kcr Feb 2021 #40
It worked, then it stopped.... LeftInTX Feb 2021 #48
That's really awesome! BadGimp Feb 2021 #32
Wow, this is so, so cool!! Thank you for posting this. nt iluvtennis Feb 2021 #33
That is fun! paleotn Feb 2021 #34
I found what could only be described as a "surrealist" radio show... GReedDiamond Feb 2021 #35
Kick burrowowl Feb 2021 #37
My locale resolves to this gem: al bupp Feb 2021 #38
I have no idea what that means......are you blocked cuz you're in North Korea? Nevilledog Feb 2021 #42
Thank you.. very cool. mountain grammy Feb 2021 #39
Badass. nt coti Feb 2021 #41
Thank you thank you thank you!!! renate Feb 2021 #43
Cool, but several stations in Mumbai have local T-Mobile and Whataburger ads? LeftInTX Feb 2021 #47
Thank you! This deserves some hearts! nt LAS14 Feb 2021 #49
WOW ... so COOL!!! 😍 ... THANKS!!!! 👍 Raine Feb 2021 #50
Kick and recommend. bronxiteforever Feb 2021 #51
It's not just a radio station locator. It's a geography teacher too. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2021 #52
fascinating, but NOT a secure page. theneworiginal Feb 2021 #53
Radio Garden Wikipedia entry mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2021 #55
I love this app, but keep forgetting I have it bookmarked. tinrobot Feb 2021 #69
This is awesome! I just listened to the Doobie Brothers from Scotland Bucky Feb 2021 #56
Oh this is just great, Smickey Feb 2021 #57
I love this!!! Thanks!! BComplex Feb 2021 #59
Too cool for school. marmar Feb 2021 #60
K&R, some other world shit right here !!! NICE !!! uponit7771 Feb 2021 #63
I can't believe it! BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #64
iTunes had this years ago. Unfortunately, typical Apple bif Feb 2021 #65
the coolest thing I've seen today... thanks n/t WarGamer Feb 2021 #66
I also recommend TuneIn Radio Rosco T. Feb 2021 #67
Coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2021 #70

TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts)
46. More, and then some.
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 03:54 AM
Feb 2021

.




The sample from that song, starting at 2:19 into it, was used in Len's Steal My Sunshine.



.

randr

(12,414 posts)
4. Been using this for since they put it out
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 08:20 PM
Feb 2021

Great to listen to Blondie from deep in the heart of Siberia at 2 in the morning. Surf music from Arabian stations!
Best thing is you build a list of favs and when you tune in you can turn off the app and your screen and it keeps streaming.
Large dots are multiple stations.

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
5. CAUTION: If you have something planned in your life, do not click on that link.
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 08:21 PM
Feb 2021

You will be spending hours with this site, and whatever else you had planned will be lost.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
68. Thanks. Some of us definitely have that tendency!
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 06:06 PM
Feb 2021

In fact, that reminds me that I shouldn't even be in DU right now. Too much else I need to be doing.

Bookmarking this OP for a more appropriate time.

MineralMan

(146,325 posts)
11. If you're learning a language listening to radio
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 09:07 PM
Feb 2021

in that language will speed up your learning, and improve your accent. Guaranteed.

bobandrileysmom

(27 posts)
29. I've been doing this to relearn my German!
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 10:44 PM
Feb 2021

Northern stations to learn properly and Middle and Southern stations for my Plattdeutsch and Schwabisch roots!

Sogo

(4,992 posts)
61. I clicked on several stations in Europe,
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 01:12 PM
Feb 2021

and they were all in English and playing American pop tunes....It was disappointing....

Not until I got to Turkey was there any language and music that sounded like that country. India was very much of its culture, too.

Red Mountain

(1,737 posts)
12. amazing and I'll be passing this around at work tomorrow
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 09:16 PM
Feb 2021

Easy way to listen to my fav WNCW 88.7 Forest City, NC

Disaffected

(4,568 posts)
13. You may be right
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 09:30 PM
Feb 2021

regarding the spent hours - their server(s) seem v slow or overloaded. It says it it is "Planting seeds..." now for the past five minutes.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
14. So far this is the OP of the Year IMHO!!!!
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 09:42 PM
Feb 2021

Absolutely awesome.

I love music, and I have relatives all over the globe...so cool to be able to grok their music!!!

Thank You Thank You Nevilledog - you have put a huge smile on my face!

Ferrets are Cool

(21,109 posts)
16. Be careful. It's a big ole dizzying rabbit hole.
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 09:46 PM
Feb 2021
I spent way too much time playing with it. The app, that is.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
21. Wow! I tried listening to talk radio in Vladivostok, but
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 10:02 PM
Feb 2021

found that unsatisfying so we're listening to music from Divine FM in Chennai, India.

Thanks, Nevilledog. This is...wonderful!

USALiberal

(10,877 posts)
58. Wow, a station was missing and I requested it......
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 01:01 PM
Feb 2021

To be added and received an email saying it would be added tomorrow!

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
30. That. Is. Incredible.
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 10:48 PM
Feb 2021

The possibilities are staggering, and I am now kicking myself for never learning more languages.

Who am I kidding? I'm still struggling with English and have only the most rudimentary French.

Still, this thing is cool as shit!

GReedDiamond

(5,316 posts)
35. I found what could only be described as a "surrealist" radio show...
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 12:19 AM
Feb 2021

...from a city called Dali, in China.

"Radio Garden - Shirley & Spinoza Radio."

https://www.radio.garden/listen/shirley-spinoza-radio/BgoQjOjJ

It's pretty fuckin good.

LeftInTX

(25,526 posts)
47. Cool, but several stations in Mumbai have local T-Mobile and Whataburger ads?
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 04:06 AM
Feb 2021

Armenian radio doesn't have it, but the Mumbai stations do...

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,597 posts)
52. It's not just a radio station locator. It's a geography teacher too.
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 10:03 AM
Feb 2021

I saw a link to this somewhere else, IIRC. It really is amazing. Thanks.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,597 posts)
55. Radio Garden Wikipedia entry
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 11:05 AM
Feb 2021
Radio Garden

Radio Garden is a non-profit Dutch radio and digital research project developed from 2013 to 2016, by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (under the supervision of Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg's Goal Föllmer), by the Transnational Radio Knowledge Platform and five other European universities. It is funded by HERA. According to the service, the idea is to narrow the boundaries from the radio. It gained popularity in 2016 when it surpassed the 8.000 registered station mark and, as announced at The Radio Conference 2016: Transnational Encounters, went viral.

{snip}

tinrobot

(10,914 posts)
69. I love this app, but keep forgetting I have it bookmarked.
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 06:23 PM
Feb 2021

Thanks for reminding me.

In these pandemic times, it's just about the only way I can travel.

Bucky

(54,053 posts)
56. This is awesome! I just listened to the Doobie Brothers from Scotland
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 11:09 AM
Feb 2021

And followed a traffic report in Barcelona

Smickey

(3,335 posts)
57. Oh this is just great,
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 12:34 PM
Feb 2021

And I was going to put my snow tires on today. If you have shit to do today do not click on this link. haha

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
64. I can't believe it!
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 02:38 PM
Feb 2021

I was too tired to try this out when I saw it last night, so I just did. I wasn't that interested in hearing my hometown station (Victoria BC), but thought I'd see what goes on in our big near-neighbour, Seattle.

I clicked on Seattle, and was just about to hit the "see individual stations" button, and it started giving me a station's current broadcast.

Rush Limbaugh show.

I have no idea how it chose that one, but I take this as a very bad omen.

bif

(22,742 posts)
65. iTunes had this years ago. Unfortunately, typical Apple
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 02:55 PM
Feb 2021

They updated it and eliminated this service ages ago. Then they dropped the ball on iTunes!

Rosco T.

(6,496 posts)
67. I also recommend TuneIn Radio
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 03:29 PM
Feb 2021

www.tunein.com

It's FREE (there is a premium level too but 90% FREE)

Also in an app for android and apple

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