January 2010
30 posts
Sr. Cisco mix on PopTron right now. He’s a great electropop DJ and we’re charmed to have him on SomaFM. http://somafm.com/play/poptron
Love this! RT @wb: 4 minute lesson on why 1960s R&B was so much fun - Booker T & the MGs in Oslo 1967 - http://jstn.cc/post/352898703
Next week we launch “Noise Pop Radio”, featuring past and this year’s artists from San Francisco’s famous Noise Pop festival.
We’re testing a new popul flash-based player option: http://somafm.com/ and look for the “popup player beta” link under the channel icons.
Wow, just looking in our Tshirt mailing database and we’ve sent out well over 10,000 tshirts over the years to SomaFM supporters! Thank you!
Here’s a free Android player that works with SomaFM: RT @afamiglietti: just fyi “Android Online Radio” also works http://is.gd/6GBn5
Android Users: Droid Live should play all our streams. http://bit.ly/6Zy5uc
Our Wikipedia entry has been flagged to be in need of “cleanup” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_FM
Senor Cisco’s doing a great electropop dance set on PopTron right now. http://somafm.com/play/poptron #somafm
OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty →
via Torrent Freak: OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty: “the jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty”
I love this quote:
“In many societies he’d be an innovator, a creator, a Richard Branson….
We’re going to be phasing out our lower bitrate MP3 streams in 2010, and replace them with aacPlus feeds. 24-32k MP3 streams will become 32k aacPlus streams, which sound so much better than the existing 32k streams. 56k MP3 streams will become 64k aacPlus streams. Eventually, we’ll offer 32k and 64k aacPlus streams for all our channels, 128k MP3 streams for compatibility, and 32kb...
If you have Winamp or iTunes 9, we’re testing a 128k AAC feed of Groove Salad. Should sound amazing: http://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls
Where is the strangest place you’ve ever listened to SomaFM?
Looking forward to seeing these guys at SXSW. We play Shine on Lush and Groove Salad, and if you’re going to SXSW in March you should make a point to see them.
I WISH I KNEW YOU - SHINE (live) by lesgrandsmanitous
Senior Cisco kickin’ it down on PopTron right now. We’ll repeat the mix Saturday night at 5pm pacific. http://somafm.com click PopTron!
Hello dear radio station! →
We get email messages like this, all similarly worded, all asking for free promotional items or photos or stickers, etc. Hello dear radio station!
I like listening to your transmission!
For many…
We just made the “soma fm” logo a bit bigger, and put a black bar across the top and changed the navigation from red to white.
Phasing out 24-56kb MP3 streams →
We’re going to be phasing out our lower bitrate MP3 streams in 2010, and replace them with aacPlus feeds. 24-32k MP3 streams will become 32k aacPlus streams, which sound so much better than the…
Did a subtle rework of the website today. Wonder if anyone will notice. It’s very subtle.