What's New

What has changed here, and when. Newest first.

• Liked songs, and what's new since you were here September 2026

  Every song now has a heart. Tap it and the song goes into Liked songs, the first playlist under Browse. When you come back, the player shows which songs were added since your last visit, both on the front page and at the top of Browse. With an account, your liked songs, volume, equalizer and language come with you to every device.

• Playlists September 2026

  Under Browse there's now a playlist for each voice: David van Coolwijk, Captain Frasca and Eliza Lou Charlotte. Shuffle one and the session stays with that voice until you say otherwise. You can also make your own: press the + next to any song, or Add to playlist while it plays. Your playlists stay in your own browser, or, if you create a free account, they follow you to every device you sign in on. An account is only for that; listening never needs one. Share turns a playlist into a link you can send to anyone.

• Share a song, and find one September 2026

  Songs now have their own web address, so you can send someone a link that opens on that particular track — it carries on shuffling afterwards, so they still get their own session. There's a share button next to the lyrics, and the address bar keeps up as you listen. The sidebar also has a search box now, covering the whole catalogue rather than only what's coming up: type a title you spotted on the catalogue page and it plays.

• The player takes its colour from the cover September 2026

  Every song's artwork now sets the accent colour of the whole page — the play button, the progress bar, the glow around the cover. There's a waveform between the artwork and the controls that moves with the actual audio, and on a wide screen the cover sits beside its own details instead of floating in the middle of an empty panel.

• The full catalogue, properly September 2026

  The catalogue page had drifted badly out of date: it listed 85 songs while the player held 170, and only three of the traditional covers were marked as public domain. It now lists every song, with all fourteen public domain covers marked. Behind that, the metadata on 131 files was tidied up, so the titles and credits are finally the same everywhere — on the site, in the app, and on your lock screen.

• Song story pages August 2026

  Some songs now have a page of their own, with the story behind the writing and the credits. Two are up so far: The Last Gather, on the real vocabulary of a working cowboy, and Wildwood Flower, on where an 1860 parlour song ended up. More will follow, but only for songs there's actually something to say about.

• The long version of why the radio stopped August 2026

  A blog post about what it actually costs a one-person project to run a continuous internet radio station in the Netherlands, which organisations are involved, and why switching the broadcast off turned out to be an improvement rather than a loss.

• A three-band equalizer and a listener count August 2026

  Bass, mid and treble sliders next to the volume control, and your setting is remembered. Underneath the title you'll also see how many sessions have been started and how many people are listening right now — the honest number, not a flattering one.

• The Android app, rebuilt August 2026

  Version 2.0 plays the catalogue instead of a stream. Previous and next buttons finally do something, the lock screen shows the artwork and title, and Android Auto can browse the full song list rather than showing one station tile.

• Your own queue, and songs on demand August 2026

  The sidebar shows Up Next and Already Played for your own session rather than a shared broadcast queue. Click any song in the list to jump straight to it. Lyrics for the playing track came along too.

• The station is now on demand August 2026

  The continuous 24/7 broadcast has been switched off. In its place: press Let it ride and the songs play one after another in an order shuffled just for you. You can skip, go back, scrub through a track, or jump straight to anything in the queue — none of which was possible with a live stream. Why it changed →

▶ Let it ride