[HN Gopher] Lofi air traffic control - LAX ___________________________________________________________________ Lofi air traffic control - LAX Author : hot_gril Score : 285 points Date : 2023-04-15 18:28 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.lofiatc.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.lofiatc.com) | anoncow wrote: | Ah it seems it is down. | cbracketdash wrote: | ? it seems to be working for me | rejectfinite wrote: | music works but airport radio is down for me | codetrotter wrote: | For me it played music for two seconds and then said "feed | down" | olkingcole wrote: | Great vibe. My only gripe is the music doesn't seem to be lofi at | all, just like slow beats. Maybe it's just where I'm at in the | playlist though. | Justin_K wrote: | Super cool. United used to let passengers listen to the flight's | atc comms, which I really liked. Then they merged with | Continental and got rid of it. I always wondered why the took | away that feature. | lucb1e wrote: | I recently saw a video where ATC made a mistake and nearly let | two planes get too close (one landing, another taking off, on | crossing runways). They caught it in time (some ATC automated | checking system was still doing its announcement as the | controller saw and diverted them both) but hearing that as a | passenger, I can imagine the panic that's not going to help | anyone. | | Don't know if that is the reason, or if that's even a | legitimate reason (it's about your life after all, even if | you're powerless to save it), but I could imagine that being a | consideration. | lostlogin wrote: | Have an air traffic controller tell you that your about to | die would seem unlikely to be a panic inducing event. The | level of calm in utter carnage is very much a thing. I'd | prefer not to test this theory. | thakoppno wrote: | That reminds me about that one JetBlue emergency landing | where passengers could watch their own plane attempt a | landing. | | IIRC, the flight attendants disabled the system right at | landing to prevent presumed panic. That decisions amusing to | me since there's a 15-30 second delay with satellite TV | anyway. I can't imagine there was a true opportunity for | passengers to see anything scary in this scenario. | amelius wrote: | Add some midjourney-generated manga drawings. | blastro wrote: | love it! bookmarked | handedness wrote: | Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914 | blt wrote: | don't listen to KATL towers combined if you want to relax! | 4ndrewl wrote: | This (well EHAM) is one of my standard daily listens whilst WFH. | That and the Flying Fortress over at MyNoise (a service I pay | for) | https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/propellerNoiseGenerator.ph... | lofi8320948 wrote: | Boston College's FM station WZBC has a program No Commercial | Potential, which plays lots of experimental sounds, some of it | sounds like MyNoise Flying Fortress. Everything depends on the | DJ and their mood, but some of it has this vibe. | | https://www.wzbc.org/after-hours-ncp | ashton314 wrote: | MyNoise is the best. Stephane seems like such a respectful, | down-to-earth guy. I don't pay for many subscriptions--I go out | of my way to avoid them--but I put some good money into MyNoise | regularly because it's been such a valuable service. It's | optional--I don't actually use many of the paid features--but I | appreciate it so dang much. | s5300 wrote: | This is the dang appreciation bot. | | You have put both "appreciate" and "dang" in the same | comment. | | Alhamdulillah | techwizrd wrote: | When this was previously posted, some of the commenters mentioned | that this might be breaking the LiveATC TOS: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914 | johnchristopher wrote: | SomaFM has https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033 | (ambient with real-time chat from LAPD) and | https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/missioncontrol (ambient | and Houston old chit-chat I think). | | They also have this new n5md channel that has sooooo many good | tracks :). | | I don't get Lofi, it's way too sad/nostalgic to me to be relaxing | but the oversound here is okay (for a bit). | | edit: BUT. Sometimes somaFM will sing tunes that sounds like Ross | from Friends or weird 32 minutes "dzing-dzin" loop. When it | happens I click on "wtf ?!" in the app and switch to another | channel (that I flood with "I love this"). | lostlogin wrote: | > Sometimes somaFM will sing tunes that sounds like Ross from | Friends | | Add a laugh track and your descent into hell will be complete. | actionfromafar wrote: | Just so everybody understands, there's an actual band named | "Ross from Friends". | dafelst wrote: | Why is this so strangely relaxing? What an amazing idea. | throwawaaarrgh wrote: | It's relaxing until they start speaking paragraphs very fast, | over and over, then it feels stressful ): | imp0cat wrote: | Try Narita. https://www.lofiatc.com/?icao=RJAA | capableweb wrote: | Mixing high-quality full-spectrum audio with low-quality and | small-spectrum voice always sound neat :) | | The measured and calm voice of ATC and pilots probably just | makes it better, it always sound like they have everything 100% | under control. | Waterluvian wrote: | "Contact" on the Random Access Memories album does this well. | [1] | | That entire song makes me picture a white knuckling | unscheduled re-entry followed by nail biting waiting, | concluded by a successful splash down. | | [1] https://youtu.be/JI5noh4OyXc | tpmx wrote: | The HN submission page could play something like this in the | background to soothe people while they are preparing their | angry submissions. | | Heh, who am I kidding, HN runs on outrage just like all the | other social networks. | PebblesRox wrote: | Now I'm imagining a writing/journaling app that automatically | chooses a playlist based on the emotions or concepts detected | in the writing. | Etheryte wrote: | Very pleasant to have this playing in the background. Is there a | list of the playlist available somewhere? | oriettaxx wrote: | broadcasts here https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php | | but I guess you want the music, don't you? (me, too) | bhargav wrote: | I watch a lot of VASAviation YT videos and listen to liveatc here | and there. My parents travel every bi-weekly so when possible I | always have LiveATC + Flightradar on and track their arrival and | taxing. This is a great idea to fill in the "gaps" between comms. | Thanks for sharing. | [deleted] | kqr wrote: | Similar to this, I like listening to the Apollo missions in real | time[1], picking one active specific station at a time and | listening just to that. FIDO is a good one! | | [1]: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ | moralestapia wrote: | Came here to mention SomaFM and am glad to see many other | comments about it. | | Don't forget to support! https://somafm.com/ | CalRobert wrote: | related - from 12(!) years ago | | http://youarelisteningtolosangeles.com/ | | It expanded to other cities. Montreal police meant I wasn't | distracted since I don't speak French. | southernplaces7 wrote: | Love this | Invictus0 wrote: | I just wish the ATC audio were processed a bit more: maybe slow | it down and put in some reverb? | KiranRao0 wrote: | Slowing down would be hard since it's a live stream | smcnally wrote: | not recommended for pilots and controlling air traffic, but | ffmpeg's 'atempo' filter works on audio streams: | | 'ffmpeg -i ATC.wav -filter:a "atempo=0.5" -vn lofiatc.wav' | | https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#atempo | rejectfinite wrote: | Something about radio comms is soothing to me and I love lofi! | Thank you | 8bitsrule wrote: | Search doesn't accept city-names but ... if you find the 3-letter | IATA airport-code for a particular city (say Pittsburg, PIT)... | search for it with a K in front of it (KPIT), it's got many of | them. | | US: https://www.airportcodes.us/us-airports.htm | rochak wrote: | That's very nice :) | dadzilla wrote: | I love these stations. SomaFM carries this and others (or maybe | they are just similar mash-ups). I have tinnitus 100% of the | time, and silence is the enemy. This kind of sound - indistinct, | with variety and high frequencies, is the most helpful. | chambo622 wrote: | None of the airport feeds I've tried have worked, unfortunately. | elliottcarlson wrote: | KJFK was the only one that loaded immediately and had ATC comms | going. KEWR took forever to load and even when Live nothing was | coming through. | Mr-Mercury wrote: | KLAX South Tower has a pretty decent of traffic from what I've | noticed. | eiiot wrote: | If you're interested in listening to more ATC stuff, LiveATC[0] | is a pretty good service for listening in while at airports or on | a plane (or just while sitting around). I use it when traveling | for fun, and it works really well! (The only issue is figuring | out what frequency your aircraft is on) | | [0]: https://www.liveatc.net/ | initramfs wrote: | Hollywood has a way of turning anything into a production. | jjulius wrote: | ... what does this have to do with Hollywood? | initramfs wrote: | Layering music over footage/audio(content) is a production. | Not saying it's bad nor good. Just a fact. | jjulius wrote: | It's a _music_ production trick employed by untold numbers | of musicians all over the world, more commonly known as | "sampling". | | It has nothing to do with Hollywood. | lostlogin wrote: | Its history goes way back - quite interesting and as you | say, not Hollywood or even US in origin (according to the | below). | | https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-first-song-to-use- | sampling/... | initramfs wrote: | I must have a neurological condition called synesthesia | where audio appear like images. | hyperific wrote: | Automated weather service would be cool too | galangalalgol wrote: | Weather radio repeat cycle is too short. It becomes noticeable | and then irritating and distracting. I keep wanting to try | shortwave news in a language I don't know but sounds nice. If | it has too many english or Spanish cognates I'll probably get | distracted trying to figure out what is said. Something tonal | perhaps, Welsh or Chinese. | hyperific wrote: | https://www.weatherusa.net/radio | alfred_joseph wrote: | [dead] | SomeBoolshit wrote: | Very reminiscent of the soma FM station where they have music | over an SF police scanner. | joeysim wrote: | [dead] | nine_k wrote: | Speaking about an opposite thing: am I the only one who gets | terribly distracted by any hint of human speech in the ambient | sounds? In my case, it completely destroys concentration; my mind | immediately switches to listening mode, trying to understand the | speech and tune in to the conversation. | | This is why I only listen to the instrumental music during work, | and pain to hear an occasional phrase dropped into a perfectly | good IDM / synthwave / electronica track. I wish a "speech-free" | tag existed e.g. on Bandcamp; some artists helpfully put | annotations on their albums, e.g. Master Boot Record's "100% | dehumanized", but apparently most artists and likely listeners do | not see the presence of words as a large differentiator. | | I know 2-3 of my friends who exhibit a similar effect. I wonder | if it's rare, or not so rare but not noticed much. | mhink wrote: | I experience something similar, but it seems to have more to do | with *how familiar* I am with the song. If it's something I've | never heard before, it's much more distracting- even if it | doesn't have words. On the other hand, if I've listened to it a | lot, it seems to have the opposite effect, and helps me | concentrate. | | I get this when trying to fall asleep, too: I can't fall asleep | while watching something new! But give me an episode of | Futurama I've watched about six hundred and thirty-two times, | and I'll be out like a light. :) | | That being said, this site is interesting because the speech is | somewhat less distinct and has the odd cadence of aviation | radio. I'll give it a listen for awhile and see if I get the | same effect as you. | mihaic wrote: | This effect of media familiarity is exactly the same for me: | I can be very creating when listening to an old playlist, but | can't think at all when listening to something new. | | Not all people seem to be like this though, as I have friends | that listen to the radio/randomly recommended Spotify songs | at work. | andrepd wrote: | True, but on the other hand I also get distracted at | instruments x) Classical music especially is a no-no, I'll get | too interested and stop paying attention to what I'm doing lol. | | However, ambient sounds are perfect. I'll never get tired of | plugging this: mynoise.net | chungus wrote: | Yup, same here. It's why I also mostly listen to instrumental | music. A lot of Aphex Twin. On top of that, when I listen to | (catchy) music with lyrics, it keeps looping in the background | of my brain non-stop, sometimes multiple days. A positive -sort | of related- thing: it's very easy for me to listen to audio- | books while driving or doing other things and not miss anything | because I'm so focused on the speech. | hnarn wrote: | > am I the only one who gets terribly distracted by any hint of | human speech in the ambient sounds? In my case, it completely | destroys concentration | | I'm the same, which is why my favorite ambient music for work | is black metal. You still get music that mirrors how | troubleshooting kubernetes makes you feel, but you couldn't | hear the lyrics if you tried :-) | dado3212 wrote: | I have this, but I also love lyrical music as opposed to just | instrumental tracks. My solution was listening to music in | languages I don't understand (French, Icelandic, etc) where | there's still the tonal patterns and vocal layering, but | doesn't flip my brain into "speech processing" mode. | CalRobert wrote: | Me too, but only when my work involves words. When I was in | photoshop all day I listened to podcasts constantly and did | fine. | alonsonic wrote: | This has been studied before and it seems that yes your brain | has trouble ignoring music with lyrics. | | Based on this study[1] you lose at least 10 IQ points when | studying and listening to music with lyrics. | | [1] https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/12/04/listening-to- | class... | T3OU-736 wrote: | Hrm. The study's size of 25 participants, and the inherent | variance of IQ score estimation both seem to smell more of a | confirmation bias than a legit anything else. | goodpoint wrote: | No, it's absolutely normal. It's difficult to ignore voices. | | The same way it's difficult to tell the color of a written word | if the word itself is a color. | VBprogrammer wrote: | I definitely get where you are coming from. I've been known to | listen to music in languages I don't know as a bit of a work | around for that. | M3L0NM4N wrote: | Lol I started listening to Spanish music to work around that | issue as well, but when I listen to the same song so long I | can get used to it, plus I speak a basic level of Spanish. | scns wrote: | I even get distracted by those. | nathanmcrae wrote: | Some others have mentioned SomaFM and the Apollo missions | separately, but SomaFM has a station that combines ambient music | and the Apollo mission audio: https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/ | TigeriusKirk wrote: | Are there any feeds of live current space mission audio? | SllX wrote: | I didn't know I needed this in my life until now. Thanks! | gokhan wrote: | Also this | | https://listentothe.cloud/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-15 23:00 UTC)