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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.

This appears to be

SomaFM https://somafm.com/groovesalad/

plus

LiveATC https://www.liveatc.net

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...

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?

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.

Pretty cool! I remember there was https://www.lofiatc.com/ but looks like it got blocked?

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

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.

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.

I would add a toggle for disabling the clouds animation. It wastes a lot of CPU cycles for me.

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.

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

https://youarelistening.to/newyork

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 :)

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.

My 8cores CPU goes to 99% when i visit your website. There's something wrong.

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).

Thank you for making this, @usernameis42: I was still looking for my 2025 "to sponsor" project. I'm donating to SomaFM now!

Feature request: an alarm clock mode that gradually fades in stall warnings and mayday chatter when you need to wake up.

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.

https://youarelistening.to/ has been doing this for a while (with better ambient music) - granted not a livestream, but the idea.

Question: any chance I can have this as a radio station in my Alexa??

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.

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.

This is awesome. Where do you get this music stream?

So it's like youarelistening.to but for ATC?

The idea that air traffic control radio can be chill when multiple CRJs crashed within weeks is questionable.

Not working for me. Switched to Toronto not connecting either Samsung Galaxy tab s9 fe+ canada android 14

Are there any other live streams like this that one can play in the background?

I am aware of liveatc and broadcastify.

ATC selection menu does not work properly on IOS safari

It's me or it's very slow on edge ?

Awesome!!!

Genius. There should be a whole bunch of these mashups.

Would love some old Apollo capcom with music.

asks me to login and the music never loads...

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