Over the past week, the Amiga Paradise audio library has gone through an intensive volume review to make listening to the radio more comfortable and consistent.

A new internal scanner was developed to analyse the full music collection using several loudness and peak measurements. Its results were then checked manually, soundtrack by soundtrack, with each suspicious recording reviewed before any adjustment was made. The goal was never to make every track equally loud, but to reduce excessive differences while preserving the original dynamics and character of the music.

After several days of listening to the updated rotation, the result is already very noticeable: transitions between tracks are much smoother, with far fewer sudden jumps or drops in volume.

The scanner will also remain part of the maintenance tools, helping us spot unusual recordings as new soundtracks are added in the future.

Public playlists are now available on Amiga Paradise.

Users can make their playlists public and share them with other visitors. Public playlists include their tracks, total duration and likes, and can also be saved by other registered users.

We have also introduced a new Embed system for both software cards and public playlists.

Why embeds?
Sometimes a simple link does not say very much about what is behind it. Embeds provide a small preview that can be placed directly on another website, blog, personal page or compatible forum, while keeping the information connected to Amiga Paradise.

They are mainly intended for people who run websites, blogs, community pages or other projects related to Amiga, retro computing or video game music — but anyone who can insert an iframe can use them.

Some forums may also support them if they allow HTML/iframe embeds or provide an appropriate custom BBCode. Support depends on the forum configuration.

Customisable widgets
Embeds are available in several sizes and include a selection of visual themes inspired by classic computer environments.

A Custom mode is also available, allowing the background, panels, text, accent and border colours to be adjusted to better match the website where the widget will appear.

Public playlist embeds can additionally highlight either software titles or artists/composers featured in the playlist.

Not an external music player
One important distinction: these embeds do not stream Amiga Paradise music on another website.

They are not Spotify-style embedded players. Their purpose is to display information and provide a direct link back to the corresponding software card or public playlist on Amiga Paradise, where the music can then be explored and played.

Two new contribution tools are now available on Amiga Paradise.

You can now report a bug or suggest a new feature directly from the links located at the bottom of every page.

Both systems are linked to your user account, allowing you to follow the status of your submission and read the administrator response from your dashboard.

These new tools use the same request system already available for soundtrack and missing track requests, making it easier to send feedback and help improve the website.

The new links can be found in the footer:
Report a Bug — for errors, broken pages or unexpected behaviour.
Suggest a Feature — for ideas and possible improvements to Amiga Paradise.

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. :)

Amiga Paradise Radio has received an important upgrade today: the radio is now also available through a standard Icecast stream.

Until now, listening to the radio mainly meant keeping Amiga Paradise open in your browser and using the integrated player. This player isn't going anywhere, but you now have another option: you can listen to the exact same radio stream directly from your favorite compatible media player, such as VLC, XMPlay or many other Internet radio players.

A downloadable M3U playlist is now available from the Radio section of the Amiga Paradise menu. Download it once, open it with your preferred player, and you can keep Amiga Paradise Radio alongside your other Internet radio stations without having to visit the website every time.
The Icecast stream carries the current track information, so compatible players can display the software and track currently playing. Requests made through Amiga Paradise are also part of the same radio: whether you listen from the website or through Icecast, everyone is listening to the same broadcast.

This new streaming option also considerably increases the capacity of the radio. The original web player remains available for up to 25 simultaneous listeners, while the new Icecast stream can accommodate up to 500 additional listeners.

Amiga Paradise Radio is also starting to appear in public Internet radio directories, making the station easier to discover outside Amiga Paradise itself.

Nothing changes for those who are happy with the existing web player. Icecast simply gives you a new, more flexible way to listen — and hopefully helps bring the huge collection of Amiga music preserved on Amiga Paradise to a wider audience.

Profile pages have evolved from simple information pages into powerful exploration tools.
They now include production timelines, relationship graphs through shared productions, associated developers and publishers, improved role detection and many new links between people, groups and companies.
These additions make it much easier to explore the connections between artists, development teams and publishers across the Amiga ecosystem.
As always, all information is generated directly from the Amiga Paradise database and will continue to grow as new recordings are added.

Rallye Master (Brands Hatch) soundtrack composed by Karsten Obarski has been re-recorded to get rid of a glitched sample.
A second music called Rallye Master II have been added to this soundtrack.

The "Add to Playlist" feature has received a significant quality-of-life update for users managing multiple playlists.

Previously, software pages only interacted with the default playlist. From now on, the system detects tracks across all of your playlists and, when several playlists are available, lets you choose exactly where new tracks should be added.

To make repeated additions easier, you can also ask the site to remember your playlist selection for one hour, allowing you to browse and add multiple tracks without being prompted every time.

This update also includes several improvements to the Public Radio page, such as more accurate Upcoming Track ETAs, enhanced request and special segment information, a new mute button, listener capacity indicators, and more precise audio credits based on each individual track whenever available.

As always, these changes are part of our ongoing effort to make Amiga Paradise more convenient and enjoyable to use while keeping the interface clean and intuitive.

If something looks broken, remember to press CTRL+F5 to hard refresh the website display.

The Amiga Paradise 24/7 Radio is now directly accessible from the website through the new "LIVE Radio 24/7" section in the main menu.

The new page lets you listen to the live stream without visiting YouTube and provides additional information about the currently playing music, including cover artwork, software details, audio credits and the upcoming tracks queue.

You can also submit your own track requests directly from the radio page.

This update also introduces a redesigned navigation menu and a desktop-first layout that provides a more consistent browsing experience across all devices.

As always, the radio remains completely free and advertisement-free.

Enjoy the music!

Thank you for supporting Amiga Paradise and keeping Amiga music alive!

Sometimes, it is important to stop coding for a moment and simply think about where a project is going.
This morning was one of those moments.
For the past few months, I have spent a lot of time improving the YouTube live radio. We solved many problems, built automatic recovery systems, improved stability and made the stream far more reliable than it was at the beginning.
Even though the system now works much better, one thing has become clear over time: running a fully automated 24/7 live stream on a third-party platform is never completely under my control.

And that made me ask myself a simple question:
"Am I spending my time improving Amiga Paradise... or improving YouTube?"
The answer completely changed how I want to move forward.

The Website Comes First
Amiga Paradise has always been the heart of this project.
The music database, the radio engine, the playlists, the requests, the comments and everything else already live here.
The YouTube stream is simply another way to discover the project.
From now on, I want to embrace that idea.
The official radio will gradually become part of the website itself.
Instead of relying on an external platform for the core experience, visitors will simply be able to open the Radio page and listen directly from Amiga Paradise.

What About YouTube?
Don't worry, YouTube isn't going away.
However, I no longer see it as something that has to run continuously every day of the year.

Instead, I'd like to transform it into something more exciting.
Special live events.
Theme nights.
Composer spotlights.
Community request sessions.
Scheduled broadcasts with a beginning and an end.
This approach should make the streams more interesting while allowing me to spend less time maintaining them and more time creating new content for the website.

Building the Future, Step by Step
Nothing will change overnight.
As always, the project will evolve gradually.
The first goal will simply be creating a proper Radio page directly on Amiga Paradise.
Once that foundation exists, new features can be added over time:
- a cleaner and more attractive interface;
- easier music requests;
- public playlists;
- additional community features;
- and many other ideas that have been waiting for the right moment.

Looking Forward
Sometimes a technical challenge teaches you something unexpected.
Trying to build a permanent YouTube radio ultimately reminded me what Amiga Paradise has always been about.
The website i…