34 comments

  • WD-426 天前
    Please give credit to SomaFM if you are going to use their steam.

    They even have a similar station: https://somafm.com/sf1033/

    But it’s the SFPD police scanner + chill beats instead of ATC.

    • ryandrake6 天前
      Yea, they should at least get credit, if not an ongoing donation. AFAIK SomaFM runs entirely on user donations, so rebranding their service without even mentioning them seems kind of crass.
    • maeil6 天前
      I present you Honest ChillyATC: https://honest-chillyatc.vercel.app/
    • crossroadsguy6 天前
      Wow. I didn't know about this (or might have, as I an obsession with trying to hunt for interesting online tools/services/things, but had never tried). Thank you for mentioning it here! This is awesome. I am loving 'Suburbs of Goa' station. Will explore more.
      • TheSpiceIsLife6 天前
        Also check out http://di.fm - Goa out the up the wazoo. Other electronic music too.

        Also their sister sites of Jazz or Rock are your thing, link on their home page somewhere.

        • dark-star6 天前
          oh wow, nice to see that Digitally Imported is still in business. I used to listen to them like 20 years ago when it was still possible to stream DI through WinAMP :)

          Helped me get through University a lot

          • rustyhodge6 天前
            They're one of the OGs of internet radio. Radio Paradise too. Probably a couple more I'm forgetting.
            • WD-426 天前
              Hey Rusty! Keep up the great work. We appreciate you.
          • TheSpiceIsLife6 天前
            You still can if you’re a subscriber, there’s a section in the settings that lets you download a .pls
          • bdcravens6 天前
            I started listening to them in the late 90s or early 2000s. These days I've been a subscriber for years. I even one time did their fun little puzzle they had in their view source that was a recruiting tool. (I did let them know I did it, but wasn't on the market lol)
        • userabchn6 天前
          I used to listen to Digitally Imported's Eurodance station a lot 10-15 years ago, but eventually it felt like I just kept hearing the same songs, that they never added any new music to it.
    • st1cky6 天前
      Thank you for introducing me to SomaFM... been online so long and never ran across this.
      • WD-426 天前
        One of the greatest if not the best online radio stations of all time, in my opinion. Been listening for close to 20 years.

        Nerd show Thursday night (8pst?) on Defcon radio is amazing.

    • dylanz6 天前
      I’ve been listening to SomaFM since 2000! Legendary station.
    • TheSpiceIsLife6 天前
      Don’t forget Mission Control also from SomaFM, ambient chill with space mission audio comms

      https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol

    • cf100clunk6 天前
      Yep, I thought the same thing, and this slightly different URL used to give just the SFPD audio:

      https://somafm.com/scanner/

      I hope that props will be given to SomaFM for their stream and original idea.

    • jasonm235 天前
      There was this: https://www.lofiatc.com

      However it is down.

    • AI_beffr6 天前
      havent all the PDs across the country switched to encrypted radio coms? and how is this supposed to be relaxing when you could hear a cop screaming for backup after being shot in his pelvis?
      • rustyhodge6 天前
        In SF, the initial dispatch is still in the clear. But a lot of EMS/Fire traffic is unencrypted, as is certain "event" radio traffic. The SF Police Commission doesn't want SF to have a totally encrypted radio system for accountability reasons.
      • rob746 天前
        Doesn't have to be getting shot, but I'd say that the probability of non-routine calls that could disrupt your focus is much greater for police radio then for ATC, so it's good that OP chose ATC instead...
      • AngryData6 天前
        You got it backwards, cops rarely ever get shot, its the cops doing the shooting of others. The vast majority of cop injuries are self-inflicted from trying to play out their action movie fantasies driving their cars recklessly and getting into accidents, with a few "They broke my hand with their face/skull" thrown in. And even then their injury rate is still significantly below regular blue collar workers.
      • doganugurlu6 天前
        Officers getting shot is super rare in SF.

        South or Midwest is a different story, of course.

        • AngryData5 天前
          Its not different anywhere else. Cops getting shot in general is incredibly rare.
    • usernameis426 天前
      Done, credits are placed, revamped the stream a bit, should be more stable.
      • rustyhodge6 天前
        Thank you for contributing to the enshittication of the web. We keep our streams open so our listeners can easily and freely access us, unlike most other internet radio services. But if things like this get any traction, we're going to have to start restricting them.

        We are paying for your little hobby. SomaFM pays close to $100k a year now on music royalties. We pay based on a per-listener, per-song basis. Sites like yours cost us money even when someone only checks it out for a few seconds.

        SomaFM is a tiny organization, we're not some VC-funded startup.

        What you're doing is exploiting us.

        It's not cool.

        • usernameis426 天前
          Sure, I understand, it’s just proof of concept and I selected your platform as one of the best ones, I will pause the stream for now, is there anyway we could chat, if you’re willing to?
          • netsharc6 天前
            It's still not paused, Olzhas. Putting their player inside an iframe and giving them credit isn't paying their bills.

            Also you're still violating LiveATC's TOS.

          • rustyhodge6 天前
            Our email isn't a secret https://somafm.com/contact/
          • rustyhodge6 天前
            You are costing us money. We have to pay royalties to the artist for each person who hears even part of a track. We do not have ads in the streams.

            Why are you being so stubborn about honoring our request? Why not play creative commons music, embed SoundCloud tracks, or make your own music mix and pay the royalties on that.

            Don't steal our content (that we have to pay royalties for each listener on) for your "proof of concept".

            • usernameis425 天前
              My bad, what I thought will be little experiment turned out to something bigger, I really appreciate and respect your work, I took my lessons out of this, stream changed to SoundCloud, in the future I consider to use AI generated chill music stream if there will be any good one soon.

              Thank you and I apologize one more time, SomaFM is a legendary and something that I love personally, all the best, Olzhas Y.

              P.S. Please tell if there is any other questions left.

  • enjaydee6 天前
    This appears to be

    SomaFM https://somafm.com/groovesalad/

    plus

    LiveATC https://www.liveatc.net

    • sandblast6 天前
      Ah, that explains the good music selection!
    • agentkilo6 天前
      Yeah these days I just go to LiveATC and start my own choice of music before I start my day. I used LofiATC and it gave me this hobit.

      Judging by what happened to LofiATC though, it seems LiveATC was not fond of this kind of things.

  • Willingham6 天前
    They speak a seemingly different language to the untrained ear, here is a good reference to better understand their shorthand and phraseology: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
  • vestibule6 天前
    This is just a crappy ChatGPT-generated site ripping off the SOMA FM _Groove Salad_ stream (https://somafm.com/player24/station/groovesalad). What's the matter, is creating something original too much work for you? Have to go rip off someone else's work because you're too damn lazy to put in the effort?
    • usernameis426 天前
      Who are you judging here? It’s my experience and experiment, I’m glad for the feedback and have my takeaways out of this, do you want to share something meaningful or just came to share hate?
      • someotherperson6 天前
        You seem to be ignoring rustyhodge's multiple comments asking you to stop using Soma's station. Do you mind responding to those comments?
        • usernameis425 天前
          Sure, I was considering all the feedback, stream now changed to Soundcloud, lesson learned and I really appreciate it! Much Love!
  • rglover6 天前
    Seems like this is SomaFM re-wrapped. If you dig this general idea, the Mission Control station on Soma is undefeated: https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol.
  • eamag6 天前
    Pretty cool! I remember there was https://www.lofiatc.com/ but looks like it got blocked?
    • LightMorpheus6 天前
      Yeah, I used to use LoFi ATC, but it stopped working. Built something to scratch the itch: https://tonygaeta.com/labs/atc-lofi. OP’s design is solid—great site with good options.
      • d1sxeyes6 天前
        Any idea why only a handful of airports can be selected?
        • usernameis426 天前
          I could add some more, there is feedback form on the page, feel free to make a request or ask questions
          • sandblast6 天前
            Don't get me wrong, but I think this is a perfectly good place for a feedback, since you made the Show HN post. There is no need to redirect users to Google Forms.
            • d1sxeyes6 天前
              It was actually more a technical question, the site uses LiveATC streams, there doesn't seem to be any specific reason to limit which stream the user chooses, I was just wondering if there was any particular reason for it. Maybe you could include an 'advanced' section where users can enter their own stream code (e.g. not 'ksfo_twr' but 'lhbp_app2' or whatever?
            • usernameis426 天前
              Yes, thats true, thank you! For sure, it is the place for it.
    • usernameis426 天前
      Yes, lofiatc is not available at the moment
  • neither_color6 天前
    ATC works for me but not music, I get the following error in the console: Playback error: DOMException: The media resource indicated by the src attribute or assigned media provider object was not suitable
    • usernameis426 天前
      Should work better now, I guess it's HN effect, will consider updating stream providers in the future, thanks for update!
  • reaperducer6 天前
    Very similar to the Scanner Grannies of the last century.

    Back before talk radio was everywhere, old ladies would put on a scanner in the kitchen and leave it on for days, weeks, years just for company.

    Sometimes they'd put on the local easy listening station at the same time to fill in the gaps between scanner traffic.

    • sandblast6 天前
      Thanks for this term, that's quite interesting! But it's kind of strange that this turns up only in 5 Google results.
      • reaperducer6 天前
        This was in the world before there was a Google.

        I was a journalist, and scanner grannies regularly called the assignment desk to make sure we hadn't missed something they heard.

  • maeil6 天前
    I present you Honest ChillyATC: https://honest-chillyatc.vercel.app/

    Edit: Added Airport and chill music station dropdowns.

    I thought it wasn't really cool to embed these streams from volunteer-run (both), donation-supported (SomaFM) and grift it with BuyMeACoffee/Product Hunt. And when SomaFM doesn't like it and reasonably blocks it through CORS, to proxy around it. And not respond to anyone bringing it up here.

    • TheSpiceIsLife6 天前
      This should be the comment.

      Or, like, go buy a couple thousand chill tracks, an VHF radio, and actually build your own project.

      • rustyhodge6 天前
        Don't forget "pay the music royalties"
    • Arn_Thor6 天前
      Excellent. I appreciate what you've done there!
    • rustyhodge6 天前
      Appreciate that
  • sandblast6 天前
    I would add a toggle for disabling the clouds animation. It wastes a lot of CPU cycles for me.
    • usernameis426 天前
      Sure, will consider this and implement soon, thanks for sharing!
      • wizzwizz46 天前
        Also consider disabling it by default for the `@media (prefers-reduced-motion)` CSS query.
      • pcdoodle6 天前
        Was going to say the same. Very cool concept, thank you.
    • usernameis426 天前
      Done, it's added to the top panel (cloud icon)
    • causality06 天前
      Yeah that one made my laptop absolutely chug. I want to listen to the page while reading a writeup of why such a simple graphical effect is so inefficiently rendered.
  • usernameis426 天前
    UPD2: I want to thank HN for the great feedback, and I'm very glad many people liked the service, there is couple of agreements that are under review at the moment, so you might face some interruptions of the stream, I'm working on stabilizing it, hopefully this will be solved soon.
    • rustyhodge6 天前
      Olzhas, Please remove Groove Salad (and/and any other SomaFM stations) from your site. Not sure what you mean by "agreements that are under review" but stop trying to get around our blocks.

      Your behavior is unprofessional.

  • szermer6 天前
    Reminds me of You Are Listening To... when you could select the city and the soundcloud tracks.

    https://youarelistening.to/newyork

  • include6 天前
    This is very good indeed! Anyways I've been working with stuff like "Apollo 12 – Lunar Lift-Off/Rendezvous/Docking/LM Jettison (Full Mission 20) " - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfAgzy-TW1g as background :)
  • pugets6 天前
    When I turned on the music and chatter, the first audio that played was of a chimpanzee wildly shrieking for about 2 seconds. The song which played after was “Sonargaon” by Daniel Masson, which as far as I can tell does not include that audio. Maybe someone at the KSFO Tower was having a bad day. Very funny.
    • usernameis426 天前
      Yeah, that's the pretty part of the life chatter XD
    • SteveNuts6 天前
      “You’re on guard”
  • gatienboquet6 天前
    My 8cores CPU goes to 99% when i visit your website. There's something wrong.
    • usernameis426 天前
      Probably cloud animations, will make a fix for that one.
  • ohuf6 天前
    Thank you for making this, @usernameis42: I was still looking for my 2025 "to sponsor" project. I'm donating to SomaFM now!
  • nomilk6 天前
    Brilliant idea. Although I can't seem to connect to get air traffic audio.

    I'm weird and often listen to 3 music track simultaneously for optimal flow state / concentration. Typically chillwave|retrowave at high volume, then a couple of other music tracks at much lower volume (if they contain lyrics, I usually like it if I can't distinguish words, so my brain's internal dialogue isn't competing).

  • mometsi6 天前
    Feature request: an alarm clock mode that gradually fades in stall warnings and mayday chatter when you need to wake up.
    • TheSpiceIsLife6 天前
      I’ve always thought that Enterprise D idling for sleeping too, and the alarm clock is the ship going to warp VERY LOUDLY.
  • MrMcCall6 天前
    Congratulations. That is very well done, indeed, and the music selection is right up my alley.

    (FYI: Working on Ubuntu with standard Firefox, no problems at all.)

    Thanks for this, whoever you are :-)

    Will try to slide you some cash, when possible. You have made my day brighter, friend. Love and peace to you.

    • aerostable_slug6 天前
      Slide a little support to SomaFM - that's where the music is coming from.
      • MrMcCall6 天前
        Good call, I sent them a chunk because that's the part I'm gonna use.

        I haven't heard a track I didn't like yet. Nice service. I hope they pay the artists.

    • sandblast6 天前
      The music selection is indeed quite good, but I would try to make sure that there are no vocals in the music — those overlap with ATC too unpleasantly for me.
      • WD-426 天前
        It’s SomaFM. OP has nothing to do with the music selection.
    • usernameis426 天前
      Glad to hear that, really appreciate that I made your day brighter! Love and peace!
      • MrMcCall6 天前
        Quick request: Could you add a toggle for the cloud animation? I like to keep my processors cool :-)
        • creaktive6 天前
          OP will ask you to use Google Contact Form :)
        • usernameis426 天前
          Done, use cloud icon in the top panel
          • MrMcCall6 天前
            That's fantastic! And you just gained a supporter. Enjoy your 'coffee' :-)

            Compassion will fix this world, my dear friend, spread the word!

            • netsharc6 天前
              He's abusing LiveATC.net and somafm.com 's bandwidth, as well as royalty payments made by somafm.com (See comments on this page from rustyhodge, the operator of somafm.com), giving him "coffee money" is encouraging the thievery.
              • MrMcCall5 天前
                I can't and wouldn't argue with what you say here, but:

                a) I donated twice as much to somafm

                b) His connecting me with somafm was worth the donation to him. Besides, as an aspiring sw artist, I like to sow good karma seeds.

                That said, I would recommend he pay out his sources both fairly and according to their terms. Their terms are their choice, and we should respect them.

                Thanks for bringing this to my attention. We live and we learn, when we're at our best.

            • usernameis426 天前
              Thank you so much for the support! Really appreciate it, this is my first launch ever and I really glad to see that people love it and even support it! <3

              Thank you dear friend, will spread the word!

  • guest__user6 天前
    https://youarelistening.to/ has been doing this for a while (with better ambient music) - granted not a livestream, but the idea.
  • ohuf6 天前
    Question: any chance I can have this as a radio station in my Alexa??
  • usernameis426 天前
    UPD: You could disable cloud animation, button is added to the top panel, thank you for feedback everyone, hope you're enjoying it! Please share any other suggestions or feedback if you could.
  • DarmokJalad17016 天前
    Can you add SoCal (ZLA) approach/departure? There's bound to be lot more audio for the traffic for a general area than a specific airport tower.
    • vdqtp36 天前
      Approach/Departure is SCT (SoCal Tracon), ZLA is Los Angeles Center (en route/ARTCC). While there'll be more traffic, it's still spread out across a bunch of sectors that are each typically their own feed.
      • DarmokJalad17014 天前
        Ah. Fair enough.

        And yea, you are right about ZLA vs SCT. I think I mostly fly around SCT and don't venture out much into the wider ZLA area. :)

        • vdqtp32 天前
          Same...only really talk to center on long xc's with FF
  • soheil5 天前
    The idea that air traffic control radio can be chill when multiple CRJs crashed within weeks is questionable.
  • cmpaul6 天前
    This is awesome. Where do you get this music stream?
    • enjaydee6 天前
      • netsharc6 天前
        Hopefully OP is going to give them some (a lot of?) money, considering there's a promiment link to Product Hunt that says "Launching soon", and nothing on today's Internet is made just for fun anymore, but for $$$$.

        Oh yeah the ATC radio is also directly from liveatc.net servers, which says on their site: "NOTICE: Third-party use of LiveATC live audio streams is prohibited." and this site probably violates many points on https://www.liveatc.net/legal/ (unless, OP did get their permission to do this...).

        • maeil6 天前
          OpenAI et al have taught us that breaking millions of website ToCs is completely meaningless.

          Soma rightfully seem to have just enabled CORS though after seeing this traffic spike.

          Edit: And now OP just started proxying around it, hilariously adversarial when embedding a donation-based service.

  • ASinclair6 天前
    So it's like youarelistening.to but for ATC?
    • usernameis426 天前
      Yes, it's kinda same, ATC communications have a specific rhythm and cadence, the speech is professional, neutral, and emotionally detached, combination with ambient music creates an audio cocoon that helps easily get into flow state and increase your productivity
      • 6 天前
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      • gimmemahlulz6 天前
        I love the music but fly for a living so my brain is tuned to instantly drop what im doing and laser focus when I hear ATC comms lol.
  • tallmansixfour6 天前
    Not working for me. Switched to Toronto not connecting either Samsung Galaxy tab s9 fe+ canada android 14
    • sandblast6 天前
      Did you enable the toggle in the "Audio Controls" section? That's what got me at first.
      • enjaydee6 天前
        That's some strange UX! Usually a drop down without a button would be associated with an affirmative choice in this day and age.
        • sandblast6 天前
          I agree, I would add a default "nothing" entry in the drop down and enable both ATC feed and the music when an option is clicked.
        • usernameis426 天前
          Will try to enhance that one, thanks for sharing feedback
          • enjaydee6 天前
            That or move the toggle up closer to the drop down, though then you have to consider moving the volume slider
    • usernameis426 天前
      Probably network issues? Have you tried wifi or other network? Yes, also make sure all toggles are on :)
  • asimovfan6 天前
    Are there any other live streams like this that one can play in the background?

    I am aware of liveatc and broadcastify.

  • Angostura6 天前
    ATC selection menu does not work properly on IOS safari
  • gatienboquet6 天前
    It's me or it's very slow on edge ?
    • usernameis426 天前
      Will check that as well, there is feedback form in the footer, if anyone has some suggestions please share it there, thank you!
  • rediguanayum6 天前
    Awesome!!!
  • stevage6 天前
    Genius. There should be a whole bunch of these mashups.

    Would love some old Apollo capcom with music.

  • dwighttk6 天前
    asks me to login and the music never loads...
  • Charlotte046 天前
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