Streamless FM changes most weeks. Here is what has landed recently, on air and everywhere else you listen.
Requests are back. Sign in as a regular and you can ask for anything in the collection at the request desk, three a day. Your song does not jump the queue for anyone: it joins the same draw every other record is in, so it still has to suit the show that is on, still has to have had its rest, and still has to clear the limits our music licence sets out on the picker page. When its moment comes it plays out the back of a break, and if you like, Jeff will say who asked for it. Some nights the moment does not come around, and that is the honest deal.
Turn the record over on the player and there is a new Lyrics tab. The words move with the song and the line being sung sits lit in the middle. Push them up or down if you want to read ahead or back, and they find their way to the music again on their own. Not every song has them. The ones that do come from a library anyone can add to, so it fills out over time.
Every record carries a note from our music director about how often it should come round, and the ones marked to play sparingly were still turning up more than we wanted. We have leaned harder on that note. You can now see where it sits, next to every other setting the picker runs on, in the dials on the picker page. It only tilts the draw. It never jumps a record ahead of the rest it owes, so nothing skips the queue for it.
Inside the collection there is a new chart showing where every record comes from, with the Australian share in big numbers at the top. The ones whose home country we have not confirmed yet get a row of their own, so the Australian figure is the honest floor rather than a flattering guess.
The Live screen used to blur the cover across the whole page. Now the record sits under the station name as a square, leaning a little, lit by its own colours, and it leans differently for every song. Play stays at the bottom of the screen where your thumb is, on any phone. Swipe up and the page keeps going: the band, how often we have played the song, what is on now and what is on next.
Every song in our collection carries a note about how often we want to hear it, and that note was making almost no difference to what got played. It counts for something now. It tilts the draw rather than overruling it, so the rest every record owes between plays still does most of the shaping. Nothing skips the queue for it: every record still waits its turn like the rest.
Each show is built around a handful of records our music director picked by hand. Until now all of them led every single day, so a show drew from the same songs for ever. Now a couple take the lead each day and the others sit back, which walks a show slowly around the collection over the week. Tuesday's Late Night and Thursday's now lean on different corners of what we own. You can watch the range move on the picker page.
The picker page now shows the draw itself: the whole collection narrowing to the songs that fit the show, then to the ones rested enough to play, then to the single record that came out. And when a song lands, the step the picker just took draws itself across the sound map and the green dot blooms where it landed.
On the picker page, the little key under the sound map has become a row of cards, each with a live count that ticks over as the station plays. Point at one and the map dims to just those songs, so you can see exactly which records are resting, which are waiting for a different hour, and which are in range for the show on air.
Most of us tune in at the same times each day, so the picker now remembers the clock: a song that played around this hour in the last couple of days waits for a different hour before it returns. On the picker page's sound map, songs sitting out their usual hour wear a dashed ring while they wait.
On the player, swipe up and the song you're hearing steps forward: a photo of the band, how many times it has spun here, and where that sits in the all time spin order. One more swipe down and you're back to the music.
A Sample card is now just the moving band, with the sleeve, title and artist tucked into a corner. Cards deal faster, the next few load quietly behind the one you're watching, and the 30 second taste loops while you linger. Swipe up to dig deeper into the collection, or pull down to head back to the station.
Flick through the Sample tab and, for many songs, a few silent seconds of the band themselves now loop behind the card. No video to be found means the album keeps the frame. Same 30 second taste, better company.
Album art now runs edge to edge across the top of the player and melts into the page, which soaks in the record's colours. The play button glows in the same tones, and your host waits quietly at the bottom with the countdown to his next link, one tap from his booth.
The app grew a proper menu: Live, Sample, Support and Stats. Sample is the fun one. Swipe through the collection one song at a time, each with its cover, its story in spins, and a 30 second taste. It only auto plays while the station is quiet, so your listening is never talked over. Stats shows who is listening with you and the most spun songs of the month.
There is a little row under the song details now: a share button to send the station to a friend, and a quick thumbs up or down to tell us how we are doing. One tap, completely anonymous, and it is about the station as a whole, never a vote on the song that is playing.
Flip the sleeve in the player and instead of the bouncing bars you now meet the band themselves: a photo, the song, the year it was cut and how many times we have spun it. Tap through to the band's page for everything else of theirs in the collection.
Settle in for a listen on your phone and the player will offer to join your home screen, so next time we are one tap away. Android adds it in a single tap, and iPhone gets the two quick steps. It asks once, and only after you have properly tuned in.
The DJ box on the player now has an on air lamp that burns while Jeff is talking and a proper meter counting down the songs to his next link. The artists coming up are tappable now too, each one through to its own page.
There is a new page at streamless.fm/picker. Every song in the collection is measured by the way it actually sounds and placed on a map, so songs that sit close together sound alike, and you can watch the picker walk that map live as each song lands. Hover a dot for the song and when it last aired, or click one to light up its closest sounding neighbours. The one thing it will never show you is what is coming, because nobody here knows until it lands.
A cast button now appears in the player bar when you are in Chrome and there is a Chromecast or Google speaker on your wifi. One tap sends the station over to it, and the sound on your own device steps aside so you never hear it twice.
Album art now scales up with your screen instead of staying pocket sized, the play button glows in the colours of the cover, and the whole page picked up more depth and light.
The Android app comes with a widget now. Put it on your home screen and one tap starts the station, no need to open the app first. While it is playing it shows you what is on.
Say "Hey Google, play Streamless FM on TuneIn" and the station starts on your speaker. Include the words "on TuneIn" for now, because that is how Google finds us. The TuneIn app on a phone works the same way.
New songs go in most days. There are now close to 400 in rotation, and the picker spreads them further apart than it used to, so you should hear a lot less repetition across an afternoon.
The homepage now shows what is playing the moment you land, with the player a click away. It also says plainly what we are, which is a station with an AI host.
The radio hub turned into a searchable table. Look up an artist or a genre and see what we hold and what has been on air.
One page with every way to reach the station, plus the ways to get yourself on the air.
Jeff has his own profile page now, with a rolling set of his recent links so you can hear what he has been up to between songs.
If you would rather listen in VLC, Winamp or your car stereo, the Stream tab now offers proper .m3u and .pls playlist files.
The Android app can now cast to a speaker or TV and works in Android Auto. The player screen was redecluttered around the one thing that matters, which is the song you are hearing.
A plain page showing how many people are listening right now, with the last half hour of history. No sign-in, nothing hidden.
The gap between Jeff's links is no longer fixed, so he turns up a little less often and it feels less clockwork. Songs also blend into each other and into the station IDs more smoothly.
A page that walks through how the next song gets chosen, using what is actually on air at that moment. No secret sauce, and no way for anyone to influence it.
He writes his links with a smarter model now. He rambles less, repeats himself less, and is more likely to say something worth hearing about the record.
You can put yourself on the air. Send your name and where you are listening from, and Jeff will welcome you in. The shout-out page also shows a live queue of what is waiting to be read.
Moving between pages no longer cuts the stream. The player follows you around the site, and shows you Jeff's face when he is the one talking.
This page starts in July 2026. Before that the station was still finding its feet, and most of the changes were the kind nobody should have to read about. If you want to know how the music gets chosen, that is written up on the picker page.