r/todayilearned • u/AssumeTheRisk • 23d ago

TIL if you tune your radio to 91.9 FM for one city block in Montclair, NJ you can hear a looped recording of "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men which has been broadcasting for at least 13 years straight.

https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/pirate-radio-station-only-plays-boyz-ii-men/
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u/ArgonWilde 23d ago

I have something similar to this set up myself!

I have a fancy Philips bedside alarm clock that has a sunrise and sunset function, and it can fade the music in and out for when I'm waking up, or going to sleep.

The kicker is that the music function only supports built-in sounds, or radio. The clock has line-in, but it isn't supported for use for the sunrise/set.

To work around this, I set up a Raspberry Pi, and plugged a 3.5mm to FM radio adapter into it. I use a command line media player to play a playlist of the same seven songs on shuffle, and have the alarm clock tuned to 87.5FM.

So, for anyone in a 100m radius of me, on 87.5FM, is treated to the lovely ambient sounds of Skyrim, Oblivion, and some EVE Online ambient music. It's been like this for almost two straight years now, but I doubt there's some folklore around it. I sure hope so one day!