Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus

Re:Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus by rustyhodge on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:26AM (#43076894)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus by usernameis42 on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:29AM (#43076907)

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?

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Re:Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus by netsharc on Monday February 17, 2025 @07:41AM (#43078334)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus by rustyhodge on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:33AM (#43076933)

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

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Re:Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus by rustyhodge on Monday February 17, 2025 @09:58AM (#43079623)

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".

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Re:Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus by usernameis42 on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:25PM (#43083442)

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.

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