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  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldtoLocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Anyone interested in AI radio?English
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    1 day ago

    Nice :) I have it on right now. Might need a touch more reverb, though that could just be the track (“Silence Between Thunder and Lightning”). Definitely in the ballpark. Cheers for that.

    I had an idea for you driving home, though it may introduce scope creep.

    Have you considered a hybrid station mode where the user can supply their own music library and Synapse FM intermingles it with the generated tracks? For example, maybe the user uploads a playlist manifest plus files or points Synapse at a Google Drive / Dropbox folder containing MP3s and an .m3u playlist. Then the system could:

    • randomly select from the user’s own tracks
    • blend them into the generated station flow
    • use metadata / embeddings / simple tagging to keep tonal consistency
    • optionally let the AI DJ introduce those tracks as part of the same station identity

    So instead of pure AI radio, it becomes something closer to:

    “your own music taste, extended infinitely”

    That feels like a pretty compelling hook to me…and might actually protect your from the haters.

    Set it up so tracks are either played directly, or used as “station DNA” for selection / matching / transitions. Or both.

    Or (and this is my preference) you could have it so that the scheduler inserts user tracks every N songs.

    You could even allow users to tip the balance, user side:

    • AI only
    • Mostly AI
    • Balanced
    • Mostly my library

    I’m handwaving away a lot here but even as a local/private beta feature for you alone, it seems like a genuinely interesting direction.

    Again - scope creep / you might see it differently than I do. Still, even if you just play with it at home, try it and see if the idea works,

    Just wanted to share, one journeyman to another.

    It’s a good project and you SHOULD post the URL here (I won’t / am respecting your privacy).

    Be proud of it, it’s good work.

    EDIT: Just caught the jingle between songs - well done! Exactly right.

  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldtoLocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Anyone interested in AI radio?English
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    2 days ago

    Do it :) It would add a lot, I think. Though it introduces some complexity on your end if you have to geo-tag canonical feeds per user, per each location, to extract from; a few set ones (technology, science, world news etc) per each station might be easier…but then have the DJ announce in the voice of whatever that IP address is from?

    Dunno. You’re clearly more than capable of working it out, so I look forward to seeing what you do.

  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldtoLocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Anyone interested in AI radio?English
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    2 days ago

    Yes, it would be useful, I think. You could for example source something from a RSS feed to turn into a news cast - just 2-3 items - as part of the the station support Jingles. You’d have to maybe ask Claude etc for some ideas (perhaps pulling different RSS feeds to match the station? The synthwave one might pull in arstechnia or something).

    I’ll keep and eye out for Cloud 9 Chill.

    Is there a blog or some such you use to discuss the architecture of SynapseFM? Would be curious to know more.

  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldtoLocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works•Anyone interested in AI radio?English
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, I just caught the tail end of a DJ announcement on the Island Vibes station. This is a great idea…but you will get murdered by the Lemmy / Reddit “this is AI slop” hivemind. I suspect those people haven’t turned on the radio in their car any time recently; I’d rather listen to this tbh

    PS: submitted a request for something like ambient LoFi girl.

    PPS: if you’ve got AI DJs…can we expect AI podcasts or short segments at some stage? Lean into the whole Three Dogs (Fallout 3) vibe.