tomhiddleston.nthmost.comTom Hiddleston Has the Most Wonderful Voice

Home Tom Hiddleston In the Media You Were Made… to be ROCKED About Radio Loki find Loser” src=”http://tomhiddleston.nthmost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Loki-get-in-loser.jpg” width=”222″ height=”332″ /> Why did I make a Tom Hiddleston streaming radio station? Part tribute to a great actor and part excuse to dork around with streaming radio manipulation, when I discovered that Tom Hiddleston posts a Song of the Day to his Twitter feed every once in a while, I realized there was a fun opportunity to create an automated yet curated audio experience. The premise of the station is simple: like a “real” radio station, I play 3 or 4 songs (usually 3 — Tom seems to like long epic songs) and then about 60 to 120 seconds of talk. The song list comes from a script I wrote to parse out his Song of the Day from his twitter feed. I have to actually find the song and upload it to the song database (that part’s not automatic), and in some cases I’ve had to scrape YouTube for a track that seems to be impossible to find from a CD. As for the interviews and readings, those come from YouTube submissions (I use the Linux based youtube-dl utility to grab the flv, then VLC to convert to mp3, and then finally Audacity to edit and normalize) and whatever podcasts and audio recordings I can find. The poetry readings all come from an iPad app, strangely enough, called iF Poems , where Tom Hiddleston lent his voice to a number of famous items by Yates, Shakespeare, Eliot, Milne, and others. …and no commercials, guaranteed. ...