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listening to radio vs loneliness (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/autism@lemmy.world
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I often notice that I need music to keep my mood up especially when I am alone. To not get myself into managing what to actually listen to but to have it as a background radio would actually be perfect.

If there weren't the commercials. Those live rent free in my head and get more annoying everytime I hear them. I can recite those from decades ago and see it as brainwashing and of course have my mental blacklist to never give money to the annoying ones.

Anyhow. Are commercials especially on the radio as unbearable as they are to me? How do you cope? Is there a (internet) station not overdoing it for you?

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[–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I cannot recommend somafm enough. It's a commercial free, listener supported radio network that has several dozen different stations with music from just about every genre you'd want. They don't have commercials but they do have semi-frequent station id stingers (like two or three times an hour) and a couple times a year they have a donation drive to keep the lights on and drop in more requests to donate (like NPR does, but less frequent). My favorite stations are Lush, N5MD, The Dark Zone, Suburbs of Goa, and Groove Salad. Hope that helps!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    Thank you for this recommendation, I just downloaded the app and favorited every station suggestion you made.

    I love having music playing but hate getting stuck in my own playlists and genres from the major music stream services. I want the exposure to new artists and styles and love the listener supported angle of this. Thank you!

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