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by williamjackson 864 days ago
I’ve been an admin at https://rainwave.cc for about 15 years now. One of the unique (I think) features we have allows listeners to influence what plays next on the radio.

While the current song is playing, we run a three-candidate election to choose the next song. We usually include a listener request as one of the three candidates in the election.

We’re a friendly community, in my obviously biased opinion. Feel free to hang out with us on Discord; the link is on the Rainwave homepage.

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Been listening to rainwave for over three years now, gamification aspect with voting is very fitting for a video game music streaming website.
I do not recall any other demoscene/vgm station on the list with voting capability. Yours is the only one. Thanks for the invite.
If I am not mistaken nectarine have been doing it for year?
I'm not sure anymore, but I remember back when I was in middle school, Radio Hyrule was entirely music selected by listeners in a queue, moving random only when it was empty. I believe there were queue limits on users though
The following still works, though the home page has no functionality. I will add this later. Thanks. Radio Hyrule - Zelda music 24/7! http://RadioHyrule.com https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen.m3u https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen (192 kbps MP3) https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo.m3u https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo (64 kbps MP3)
https://www.radio-browser.info/ has those streams listed (and this database feeds into radiodroid if you want a way to stream it on a phone using opensource parts)

EDIT: Misread the parent comment, radiohyrule (rainwave is) isn't on there but submissions are open if you'd like to add it.

Thanks. I'll check it out. Didn't even know there were radio stations for game music.
I love rainwave, it's a excellent site for gaming music.
cvgm.net lets any listener queue up to 5-6 tracks. nectarine is 1-3 iirc, but I didn't hang out there much.
I'd like to plug my own favorite here: https://queup.net (former dubtrack.fm) let's you create your own playlists from YouTube and soundcloud, then you can make your own channel, people can join and you take turns playing what you put in your music queue.