Today marks one year since the first new soundtrack was recorded for Amiga Paradise V2.

It may not be the exact birthday of the first line of V2 code — that date has been lost somewhere along the way — but September 5, 2025 is when the project truly came back to life.

At the time, Amiga Paradise was still largely built around the remains of V1: a handful of PHP pages and a rather fragile system where audio filenames were essentially the source of truth for everything. One year later, it has grown into something far beyond what I originally had in mind.

Since that first recording, 579 soundtracks and 3,316 audio tracks have been added, representing more than 6 days and 18 hours of new recordings. The database now covers 1,751 Amiga games, demos, cracks and music disks, with 9,408 audio tracks and more than 17 days of music preserved and available on the site.

The database itself has changed just as much. Credits, composers, developers, publishers, artwork and other information have been progressively reviewed and expanded, sometimes several times as new possibilities were added. Amiga Paradise now contains 3,925 People profiles, alongside hundreds of developer and publisher profiles. The music collections of several major Amiga composers have also been completed, including David Whittaker, Allister Brimble, Frédéric Motte, Matt Furniss, Barry Leitch, Richard Joseph, Ben Daglish and David Lowe.

And the project is no longer simply a database of recordings. User accounts and playlists, detailed People and Developer/Publisher profiles, statistics, requests and many other features have gradually made the site much more alive. Most recently, the radio has grown into a real public stream, drawing from a pool of 7,487 tracks — more than 16 days of continuous music.

All of this happened through 26 major releases and hundreds of smaller updates during the past year.

There is still plenty left to do. The radio will continue to evolve, existing features will keep being refined, and larger projects — including the future contribution and curation system — are waiting further down the road.

Amiga Paradise V2 is only one year old, and it is already very different from the site I started rebuilding last September.

Thank you to everyone who visited, listened, sent a request, shared the site, or simply came back from time to time.

See you next year. :)