Background

My employer has placed me on a project that requires me to learn Angular (yay consulting!) So, I decided that I’m going to go about learning it my way, by making something that I find compelling. Through some crate digging, I came across LoA2K which makes use of the super cool Webamp player. I have known about the player itself for some time, so I thought it would be fun to try to get my own instance up and running with a little combo of github-pages and Angular.

While looking into Webamp, I came across this comment:

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inInternetIsBeautiful

Again, I’ve got the crate digging bone in me so I immediately search for “Groove Salad”. Turns out Groove Salad is a downtempo / chillout internet radio stream that has been going since 2000. After tuning in for a bit (and finding so many more cool stations thanks to fmstream.org), I decided “I’m going to make my own station”. Lucky for me there aren’t exactly many Vaporwave focused lounge internet radio streams out there.

Process

I ended up choosing to host my stream on a Raspbery Pi Zero 2 W, as I had it leftover from a previous project. Like with my other work, there is a focus on using free and open source software (FOSS). Especially with this project, it led me to some pretty unique finds, so I hope to help shine some light on them here. Below is a collection of guides, tutorials, and tools that I found useful while setting up the stream.

• Setting up an internet radio with a Raspberry Pi and Icecast
• Installing ympd on the Rasppberry Pi
  • NOTE: you cannot currently compile the code as is, apply the patch found here.
• Mounting a Samba Share Under Debian
• Open Source Web Radio with Icecast and Raspberry PI

Result

• Checkout the livestream at: https://jennymaeleidig.github.io/x86-soundscape/
• Or, directly via: http://radio.barb.date/x86-soundscape
• Or, on the Receiver app at: https://receiver.appsolute.de/r/5931798293255270

Source Code: https://github.com/jennymaeleidig/x86-soundscape