15 Years ago I was like, 5 months old.. dang bruh.
Let’s Get to the Point:
Exactly what the title implies. Hey guys, I’m back with one of my legendary finds. Today I present Radio Garden. Yes, you read that right. “Radio Garden” (angel halos and pixie dust and other magical things floating in the air)
Radio Garden is a non-profit radio service based in the Netherlands. Essentially you can listen to virtually any radio station in the world. It was part of a research project from 2013 to 2016, but they continue to maintain the website. The creator’s purpose for Radio Garden was to, “narrow the boundaries for the radio” – dope!
Okay, what do I do?:
- What an insightful question! Click here for starters.
- It might take a few seconds to load, but then you’ll be able to see a “google earth”-type globe with some green blobs. Each blob is a radio station, and depending on how far you’re zoomed in/out, it can also represent the density of different radio stations that area. In other words, the bigger the blob, the more variety of radio stations.
- Choose your own adventure!
- Use your trackpad to scroll around. You have the option to drag the website’s circular cursor around, and it will play the most precise radio it lands on.
- Click directly on a green circle.
- Use the search bar to search radios by their, Country, City, or Station name
- Or.. you could scroll around like a hobo
Other features that I kinda need to share at this point:
- If you are currently listening to a radio, click on “Explore” and it should give you a list of these bad boys:
- “top picks from the area”
- “popular in [country]”
- “Nearby [city, jurisdiction]”
- “Cities in [country]”
- Moving right along, if you like a radio station, you can favourite it! Don’t think it works on Incognito tho.
- If you feel lazy you can use the + and – features to zoom in and out of the map, respectively.
- You can lock the station so you can still scroll around while listening to the same radio.
- If you know about a radio, but don’t see it here, you can submit a radio station if you click on “settings”
- It’s free!
See, now you won’t feel like a tourist. Haven’t felt like one for a while tho. Bruh.
Bon voyage! – Ha. See what I did there?
You’re welcome, and yes, feel free to share with your relatives who aren’t that tech savvy too, I bet they’ll love you for sending this article to them. And even though having this website might not seem like a huge flex, it allows you to immerse yourself in different cultures, and possibly your own.
Thats’s all from me, aight imma bounce!
Ranya