Use this simple ruby script to automate grabbing all the SomaFM stations and saving each as a playlist into MPD.

AutoTune_SomaFM_MPD.rb

# Make sure you can use mpc from your command line before running this. 

soma = {  "Groove Salad (ambient/electronica)" => 'groovesalad',
          "Suburbs of Goa (world)" => 'suburbsofgoa',
          "Lush (electronica)" => 'lush',
          'Digitalis (electronica/alternative)' => 'digitalis',
          '480 Minutes (alternative)' => '480min',
          'Indie Pop Rocks! (alternative)' => 'indiepop',
          'PopTron (alternative)' => 'poptron',
          'Black Rock FM (eclectic)' => 'brfm',
          'Mission Control (ambient/electronica)' => 'missioncontrol',
          'Drone Zone (ambient)' => 'dronezone',
          'cliqhop idm (electronica)' => 'cliqhop',
          'Space Station Soma (electronica)' => 'spacestation',
          'Beat Blender (electronica)' => 'beatblender',
          'Sonic Universe (jazz)' => 'sonicuniverse',
          'Covers (eclectic)' => 'covers',
          'Secret Agent (lounge)' => 'secretagent',
          'Underground 80s (alternative/electronica)' => 'u80s',
          'Boot Liquor (americana)' => 'bootliquor',
          'Illinois Street Lounge (lounge)' => 'illstreet',
          "Tag's Trip (electronica)" => 'tags',
          "Doomed (ambient/industrial)" => 'doomed' }
          
puts "This will clear your current mpd playlist. Press enter to continue."
gets

soma.each_pair do |name, id|
  puts name
  `mpc clear`
  `mpc load "http://somafm.com/#{id}.pls"`
  `mpc play`
  `mpc save "SomaFM: #{name.delete("\n\r").gsub("/", ' & ')}"`

  sleep 10 # let me listen to it a sec before you continue
end