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.

I’ve been listening to SomaFM since 2000! Legendary station.

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?

Officers getting shot is super rare in SF.

South or Midwest is a different story, of course.

Its not different anywhere else. Cops getting shot in general is incredibly rare.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

They're one of the OGs of internet radio. Radio Paradise too. Probably a couple more I'm forgetting.

Hey Rusty! Keep up the great work. We appreciate you.

You still can if you’re a subscriber, there’s a section in the settings that lets you download a .pls

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.

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.

Thank you for introducing me to SomaFM... been online so long and never ran across this.

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.

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

Don’t forget Mission Control also from SomaFM, ambient chill with space mission audio comms

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

Done, credits are placed, revamped the stream a bit, should be more stable.

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.

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?

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.

Our email isn't a secret https://somafm.com/contact/

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".

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.

There was this: https://www.lofiatc.com

However it is down.