Doctor😷G 🇵🇹🇺🇸Feb 13, 2023
Lauren Weinstein

Sometimes I just want to hear "elevator music". And when I want elevator music, I want the *real* thing. I want to hear it *exactly* as I could have heard it in actual elevators or in the background of department stores many years ago.

And since this is the 21st century, I can do this, thanks to the official "Seeburg 1000" background music streaming site -- on the web, from #Google Assistant via TuneIn -- or many other ways!

These are the original Seeburg 1000 tracks as recorded by their own orchestra! Accept no imitations!

https://seeburg1000.com/

Seeburg 1000 Background Music Radio | seeburg1000.com

Streaming the Best of the Seeburg 1000 Background Music Library Playing 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The Official Seeburg 1000 Website | Internet Radio

Seeburg 1000 Background Music Internet Radio
Feb 13, 2023 at 12:00amWeb
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
Desktop player is back up!
Show threadTony WellsFeb 13, 2023
@lauren
This may interest you. https://youtu.be/8kCHx3_vu9M
RetroTech: Seeburg 1000 BMS1 Background Music System (1959-1986)

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Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
@TonyJWells Yeah, I've actually seen that, since I follow him.
Show threadTony WellsFeb 13, 2023

@lauren

I do love a good Techmoan video.

Show threadMike LoukidesFeb 13, 2023
@lauren @therealfitz Man, that brings back memories. Shopping in Caldors and hearing Willie the Pimp (Zappa/Beefheart) played by an orchestra that sounded like Mantovani's 101 Strings.
Show threade.pilotFeb 13, 2023
@lauren this is fantastic
Show threadResunaFeb 13, 2023
@lauren Doesn't seem to work in Linux in Firefox or Chrome.
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
@resuna Works fine in Chrome in Ubuntu here. But then again, you can also listen through anything that plays TuneIn, including Assistant.
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
@resuna Their desktop player says OFFLINE right now. I was playing it for several hours earlier today.
Show threadResunaFeb 13, 2023
@lauren I assumed that was a problem on my end because a refresh switched it to LIVE.
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
@resuna It just looks down right now. Hang on a sec.
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
@resuna Working OK via Google Assistant right now.
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
@resuna Maybe I overloaded it promoting it here.
Show threadThomas A. Fine Feb 13, 2023
@lauren How can I go directly to their version of The Girl from Ipanema?
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
@thomasafine "That would be extra."
Show threadLaurence GonsalvesFeb 13, 2023
@lauren have you heard of the "Attention K-Mart Shoppers" collection on the Internet Archive?
https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Show threadLaurence GonsalvesFeb 13, 2023
@lauren There's also a curated and de-noised edit, here: https://archive.org/details/kmart-denoised-42hours
K-Mart Denoised (42 Hours) : Tower Sound and Communications : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

I really enjoy the Attention K-Mart Shoppers collection gathered, cataloged, and uploaded by Mark Davis (all credit goes to him for the source of this...

Internet Archive
Show threadPhil LandmeierFeb 13, 2023
@lauren Wow. Thanks for that. Hahaha. Very cool.
Show threadPhil LandmeierFeb 13, 2023

@lauren I can't get the desktop player to work. But it's late and I have to sleep. I'll mess with it tomorrow night.

This is totally cool.

Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 13, 2023
@shuttersparks Yeah, their desktop player seems to be broken. Odd, because it worked when I sent that post.
Show threadLauren WeinsteinFeb 14, 2023
@shuttersparks Last time I checked it was back up.
Show threadPhil LandmeierFeb 14, 2023

@lauren Just checked now. Same behavior as before. The ON AIR is blinking red. The player says "OFFLINE" and is unresponsive to clicks. The volume control on the player opens if I click it, set to about 80 percent. But if I try to change the setting, it drops to zero, shows mute, and refuses to budge after that.

The popup version of the player does the same thing.

Just to be sure, before going to the site tonight, I disabled all protections for that site (tracker blocks etc).

Strange.

Show threadBill SeitzFeb 13, 2023
@lauren If it's not in an elevator, it's sparkling muzak.