Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus (chillyatc.com)

I love the music but fly for a living so my brain is tuned to instantly drop what im doing and laser focus when I hear ATC comms lol.

That's some strange UX! Usually a drop down without a button would be associated with an affirmative choice in this day and age.

Any idea why only a handful of airports can be selected?

Hopefully OP is going to give them some (a lot of?) money, considering there's a promiment link to Product Hunt that says "Launching soon", and nothing on today's Internet is made just for fun anymore, but for $$$$.

Oh yeah the ATC radio is also directly from liveatc.net servers, which says on their site: "NOTICE: Third-party use of LiveATC live audio streams is prohibited." and this site probably violates many points on https://www.liveatc.net/legal/ (unless, OP did get their permission to do this...).

It’s SomaFM. OP has nothing to do with the music selection.

Quick request: Could you add a toggle for the cloud animation? I like to keep my processors cool :-)

Good call, I sent them a chunk because that's the part I'm gonna use.

I haven't heard a track I didn't like yet. Nice service. I hope they pay the artists.

Was going to say the same. Very cool concept, thank you.

Also consider disabling it by default for the `@media (prefers-reduced-motion)` CSS query.

This was in the world before there was a Google.

I was a journalist, and scanner grannies regularly called the assignment desk to make sure we hadn't missed something they heard.

Officers getting shot is super rare in SF.

South or Midwest is a different story, of course.

Doesn't have to be getting shot, but I'd say that the probability of non-routine calls that could disrupt your focus is much greater for police radio then for ATC, so it's good that OP chose ATC instead...

You got it backwards, cops rarely ever get shot, its the cops doing the shooting of others. The vast majority of cop injuries are self-inflicted from trying to play out their action movie fantasies driving their cars recklessly and getting into accidents, with a few "They broke my hand with their face/skull" thrown in. And even then their injury rate is still significantly below regular blue collar workers.

In SF, the initial dispatch is still in the clear. But a lot of EMS/Fire traffic is unencrypted, as is certain "event" radio traffic. The SF Police Commission doesn't want SF to have a totally encrypted radio system for accountability reasons.

Also check out http://di.fm - Goa out the up the wazoo. Other electronic music too.

Also their sister sites of Jazz or Rock are your thing, link on their home page somewhere.

One of the greatest if not the best online radio stations of all time, in my opinion. Been listening for close to 20 years.

Nerd show Thursday night (8pst?) on Defcon radio is amazing.

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.

Ah. Fair enough.

And yea, you are right about ZLA vs SCT. I think I mostly fly around SCT and don't venture out much into the wider ZLA area. :)

Don't forget "pay the music royalties"