[GrooveSAN]

Discovered SomaFM thanks to HN and in love with the SF 10-33 (SF police scanner mixed with ambient).

For those of you loving the “deeply-focused and manually curated music channel” vibe, I can only recommend to check out Digitally Imported (di.fm), which I started listening for free and turned into a paying user for years now. They now own many apps, each featuring its own music style (electronic music, jazz, classical, rock, zen, etc.).

Some live shows are popping up from time to time, adding a bit of “social experience” on top, but the overall feeling I have is exactly the same as the people commenting there: what a pleasure to just log on a very specialized channel fitting your current listening needs and only have quality sounds fulfilling those needs. No add, no commercial tune, no fuss: only rare versions of quality music organized in extremely consistent channels.

Friends at home for a relaxed moment? Why not tuning to “Late night jazz”? Aggressive repetitive coding: “Goa Psy Trance” will put you in the proper “copy-paste” mood. Long driving session: “Deep progressive” that is!

Apart from pleasing your ears, the valuable outcome (at a time of AI-propelled tracklists that will only push you to listen to the same mainstream music as your neighbours) is that you’ll gradually build a sense of what you like exactly, and when you like it exactly.

[hurryer]

DI.fm is no longer freely listenable, they severely limited the free offering.

[TwoNineFive]

DI.fm feels like they are going to just fold at any time. They had a big three day outage a month or two back. They couldn't be bothered with any kind of redundancy in their infrastructure and a single podunk datacenter outage took them out.

None of their channels that I listen to have had playlist changes in the last three years.

I removed my autorenew a few months back and my subscription is finally going to end here in just a week or two, but I've not really been listening anyway. I've been buying albums and going through my list of artists that I've wanted to check out for awhile and getting my listening done that way.

[jimmydddd]

Re: SF 10-33 Soma channel Many groups are fighting against cities encrypting their police radio channels based on government transparency and freedom of information grounds. I'm like, more importantly, it hurts the SF 10-33 channel.

[johnofthesea]

I somehow periodically forget about these stations so this post and this comment also reminded me that there is also dfm.nu - not universal as di.fm or somafm, but still interesting.

[SoullessSilent]

Their genre specific channels swing quite far into other genres. I stopped paying and listening due to repeated disappointment. I dont recommend di.fm as an 2 year x subscriber