Btw, is there somewhere a search engine to know when a given [set of] track was played where, in the internet radio world?
Please allow me to recommend FIP, as a human (it's a classic here but there's no such thing as recommending too much FIP) : https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
And remember you can always get the audio steam through HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), on its M3U format, or others with better quality. There are many Android apps like Transistor to enjoy the stream, and even VLC can open these, in order to avoid using a web browser.
Likewise, I prefer online radios than big tech algorithms that craft my music experience.
No algorithm has been able to be able to be as weird but consistent as a community radio DJ.
The radio can still surprise and delight like little else. All the tech companies have been able to replicate is the disappointment.
Not to say never but people’s great advantage here is that they’re people.
Outside of rock you're left with automated pop and country stations who have computerized playlists.
note - I'm in the Midwest US.
Most of the radio stations here in Columbus, Ohio are what you described, the clearchannel / IHeartMedia stations.
However, there is an independent radio station and it's so great. They play Democracy Now! during the daytime and they have a rotating list of shows for the evening. I've heard some really great music during the evening shows.
If you're in Columbus, tune in to 98.3 or 92.7 FM!
Disclaimer I make https://www.radio-addict.com but only retrieve the played song data on demand (never tried to probe all 80k+ radio streams at the same time on my small server, could be fun), but searching on it could be a new feature (it's stored in Elixir genservers :D)
To those who aren't in the know already, it's this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dgmltn.rad...
