95 Degrees Radio
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| Developer | VoidInVoid |
95 Degrees Radio was a purpose-built Radio bot that plays music in a dedicated Stage channel, with rotating playlists similar to real radio stations. The service launched on the 13th August 2018, after only 9 days of development.
Due to issues with YouTube playback, costs and lack of active usage by members of the server, 95 Degrees Radio unfortunately closed down on 4th May 2023 at 8PM BST. The final song played was As The World Caves In by Matt Maltese. The source code was made available following the closure for anyone to view and tinker with, which can be viewed here.
Features
- Rotating, time-based playlists
- Ability to queue music from multiple sources, such as Spotify, YouTube, Soundcloud or MP4 files
- The 95 Degrees Radio app, allowing songs to be queued from a Windows desktop app
- Jingles (currently unused)
- Vote to skip the currently playing song
- Restream - the ability to bring the 95 Degrees Radio bot into your own voice channel
Trivia
- The 95 Degrees Radio bot was accidentally leaked to the public when it was introduced in 2018. Initially, the plan was to invite the bot under a different name ("ModBot") to ensure the bot was functional and ready to be announced at a future date. However, despite the bot having a different nickname in the server, "95 Degrees Radio" was still visible on its profile - causing Nath to rush the announcement in an attempt to avoid speculation.
- There used to be a weekly event during the first few months of the launch of the service, known as Monday Morning Takeover. This was hosted by Tag and Devil_Cyborg.
- 95 Degrees Trivia is contained within 95 Degrees Radio. The trivia bot is simply another radio instance but without any songs loaded by default.
- Much of the base of Guardian v2 is from the radio source code.