YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels

Somafm.com is fantastic. Been listening to them for 20 years, still no ads. Groove salad was my initial beat. I'm mostly on bossa now for office work ambiance, it's great as background music to open onlinm eeetings. I know this make me sound like an old fart, because I am. They even got groove salad classic channel now... Anyway, good electronic, country, metal pop, vintage they have it all in well curated channels. Checkout secret agent or Illinois Street lounge for quirky ambiances.

I would add Radio Fip into the discussion, French, eclectic as hell, with many channels (though I pretty much only use the main one)

Seems cool at first impression! Anyone know if I could play it on my Sonos system?

SomaFM is my fav Radio Station!

Oh yeah finally! I was dying to listened to a radio where i could find actually novel new music, thank you so much!

Wow they have a dubstep channel and judging by the last played tracks listed they are actually playing proper dubstep as well as the more commercial american style sound.

No DnB though.

I used to love secret agent radio

Groove Salad plays constantly on all the Nest devices through my from morning to night.

I love somafm! Been listening for a long time. Buy some stickers from them! They don't play ads and need income.

Groove Salad ftw, love that downtempo vibe. all the Pork Records artists are great.. Fila Brazillia, Baby Mammoth, Leggo Beast, Bullitnuts, Momma Gravy

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time..

Love SomaFM and have the t-shirts, magnets, stickers, etc. to prove it!

Mostly into the DroneZone as ambient while at home or at work. Listening with noise-reducing headphones makes it even better.

i love soma.fm so much! i'm still a little salty about the app. kept it on my phone for a long time for pure nostalgia after it no longer worked.

SomaFM is awesome

Be a bud and sign up for the 4.20!

It's mostly just ambient though. No metal, punk, goth, anything of that sort probably for copyright reasons. Cool if you need something like this, but it's not replacing any streaming service/downloading albums anytime soon.

No punk? :(

Nice community financed radio channels. Highly recommend. They still need $12k to keep operation going this month, please support if you can :)

I actually discovered a lot of Canadian indie bands through SOMAFM. Been listening to them for nearly 20 years.

thanks, i love it! i'm just browsing, and the channels seem all to be really the good stuff! i'm a bit weirded out by the secret agent radio, but it's a good kind of weird lol

I see no Classical is that right?

This is amazing! Thanks!

For a simple distraction-free control via Linux's command line, you can install mpg123 and add the following script files to /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/:

/usr/local/bin/soma:

#! /usr/bin/bash
kill $(pgrep mpg123)
mpg123 -@ http://somafm.com/nossl/$1.pls

/usr/local/bin/somaoff:

#! /usr/bin/bash
kill $(pgrep mpg123)

Make them executable for everyone by running sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/soma /usr/local/bin/somaoff.

You can now run from your console (or from KRunner on KDE, or via :sh from within helix):

# Tune into station "Lush"
soma lush 
# Turn Soma off
somaoff

Works fine from a tty as well, even with bluetooth on my OpenSUSE at least.

The specific station names to enter after soma are the ones in the URL of each station's webpage, e.g. “folkfwd” for Folk Forward, as its URL is https://somafm.com/folkfwd/.