Love me some SomaFM, for more variety I also like to listen in ByteFM (also ad-free since 2008).
DJs are talking german, but their mixes are unmatched. My favorite way of discovering new music.
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“Groove Salad is sponsored by, oh wait, we don’t have sponsors”
Dig it thanks for sharing. Donated
You can play it with vlc media player
they should! the browser version works fine though
Soma is one of my favorite ways to learn about new music. And, their Christmas stations are a good alternative typical playlists.
My god, Christmas Lounge has been a sanity saver ever since certain elements began insisting on "Christmas music" in December at home.
Around our house, it's "Department Store Christmas". I can only take a few hours at a time before I switch it back to "Groove Salad".
Always updoot SomaFM.
Cliqhop, Suburbs of Goa, Groove Salad, and Drone Zone really expanded my exposure to genres like ambient, drone, lounge, neo soul, world beats, and electronic. I feel I became a more well-rounded enjoyer of music because of this station, and it deserves all the attention and donations it can get.
SomaFM is the GOAT for chillout / ambient / triphop. Been listening to their Groove Salad channel since 2005 and still do to this day. Paying for it for as long as I've had a decent job. The only non-FOSS sticker worthy of my university laptop:

Everyone should listen to SomaFM!
They need $12k funding in the next four days.
Their underground 80s station was a regular listen for me about 10 years ago. Glad to see they’re still going!
Do these have actual human djs? Not a criticism, just wondering
They have curators, who create the playlist and select the songs, but they are not live mixing or selecting what's is going to play. In each of the stations you can check the bio of the people behind the music selection.
The curation is human yes. There are prerecorded snippets of the djs throughout the day.
Sadly I doubt there are many 24/7 live DJs today. Though I'd love that job!
I've actually encountered a lot of free radio streams with human DJs for at least the majority of the day. Two off the top of my head:
https://www.thelotradio.com/ (this one even has a camera on the DJ)
I love coding to groove salad.
SomaFM is awesome. Please support.
Their eclectic Christmas channels are on 24/7 in my house during December. And Groove Salad can turn any get-together into a classy chill.
They are on Mastodon https://sfba.social/@somafm
I thought that was a joke then I opened it and saw phish basically every six songs. Hell yeah if you love phish
I've been listening pretty much exclusively to radio paradise for over two decades. I love it. I thank the OP for reminding me about soma too.
Indie pop rocks is my go to when I don’t know what I’m in the mood for.
And their Xmas stations are always great
Used to listen to it all the time, and there to to know great music. My SomaFM t-shirt is still going strong but is going to become a pijama any day soon.
Not quite the same but radio.garden is cool too
Relevant https://hbr1.com/. Don't forget to sign their guestbook.

One of the best web sites ever. I just turn on Synphaera and then off the background music in RPGs, it is a nice change.
I love SomaFM! Been listening since the early days. My favorite channels: Groove Salad Classic, DefCon, Vaporwaves, Department Store Christmas (during the holidays).
Left coast 70s is my go-to to test a new client audio install. It has never offended anyone and is always "fresh".
Somafm is the best! Fluid is my favorite channel and I feel asleep to their mission control channel for years
I started listening to that station in high school. In the 90s.
Edit: OK I guess I didn’t…
90's? You listening via a time warp? Station went online in 2000.
Or are you talking about Rusty's micro-FM station that he ran from his basement in '99.
Did it? Man, my memory must be a bit fuzzy…
LOL! Yeah.. It's okay, we've all been there at one time or another.
I had just discovered soma fm in the fall of 2000 as I'd hit on listening to radio stations from around the world, and I used the old MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet (now rebranded as radio-locator.com) to find stations that offered streams.
It was an epiphany that there were stations that ONLY were on the web as I was mostly hunting down terrestrial broadcast stations (one of my faves at the time was a New Zealand student station - Radio-active 88.6 - it still exists!) and once I'd found a mac version of Winamp that opened .pls links, I was off and running.
It was a heady time to be there as it all unfolded. The sense of discvovery was sharp.. more than it is now, that's for sure.
I use Sleep as Android as my alarm (purchased it when it wasnt absurdly priced) and use SomaFM for waking up. New song every day, and sometimes I will save the song to listen later.
I looked at several of their stations and didn't recognize a single artist. I'm all for discovery, but I gotta know at least SOME of what I listen to.
Metal radio: https://www.chronixradio.net/
I have a SomaFM sticker on the back of my car right now! Love them. Been listening for a long time. Discovered some of my now favorite artists from Groove Salad and Lush.
Still very fond of WBOR from when I was following the Internet Roadtrip
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