Release notes
oktober 2026
You can now download SINK stickers and mascots on the new Swag page.
The web player now reconnects to Google Cast after a page reload.
Your speaker keeps playing while the player restores your station, connection and volume controls. Pressing Stop during reconnection keeps playback stopped.
The web player now keeps your browser volume separate from Google Cast volume.
Casting keeps your speaker’s current volume, and the slider follows your adjustments without jumping back. Returning to this browser restores its own level.
You can now cast stations from the web player in Chrome to Google Cast devices.
Help explains Chrome’s local network permissions, including the setting on Mac. While you cast, the player shows the name of the speaker or TV you’re listening on.
Picks in the iPhone app now opens with the stations you played last, with a way through to your Library.
Picks in the iPhone app has three new shelves: Experimental, Freeform and DJ Sets.
Explore puts stations whose main sounds match your selected genres and styles first.
A new Apps page shows where you can listen to SINK and what we’re building next.
You’ll find it under Listen in the footer, and the footer now has the App Store badge too.
The welcome email now links to the iPhone app on the App Store.
After a reload, you can restart your station with one press of play when your browser asks for it.
In Safari on iPhone and iPad, a banner at the top of the page now links to the iPhone app.
Welcome, verification, password reset and email change emails now arrive in your account’s language.
Signing up with Google or Apple now brings the welcome email too, and on the web such an account starts in the language of the page you signed up on.
Session and sign-in method dates in Settings now appear in your language and timezone.
Wording is corrected across the Danish, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch versions of the site, the iPhone app and CarPlay.
The Help page now covers the iPhone app, station suggestions and where to delete your account.
Picks now opens with the stations you played last, from any device, with a link through to your Library.
Moving between Picks, Explore and Library no longer reloads the page; the player and header stay put and only the page changes.
Reloading or leaving the page while a station plays now starts a short fade-out to help avoid abrupt cuts.
Volume and appearance are now settings of the device you’re on, and no longer follow you between devices.
Each browser and each iPhone keeps its own volume and light or dark choice, and keeps them when you sign out or switch accounts. Your last station still follows you.
Each account now keeps its own last station, including when you switch accounts in another browser tab.
september 2026
You can now verify your email by opening one link, and a waiting SINK page notices when you confirm it on another device.
The iPhone app now returns to Sign in with the real error when an emailed code succeeds but sign-in cannot finish, and the code screen lets you use a different account.
You can now open the complete featured collection in Explore from the iPhone app’s Featured shelf.
The web app now welcomes new listeners with one short setup for display name, appearance, player, and timezone, with Digital as the default player until you choose Analogue.
Every new account now includes 7 days of listening, with no payment details. Your plan settings show when those days end.
The web player now lets you choose Google Cast before any receiver has been found, so Chrome can search for nearby Cast devices.
The web player now stops and reloads smoothly, avoiding occasional crackles from your speakers.
Starting or stopping radio in the iPhone app now fades the stream edge cleanly, avoiding occasional clicks from your speakers.
The iPhone player now resumes a station when your connection returns after a brief interruption.
The iPhone sleep timer now includes a three-hour option and shows how long is left.
Sharing a playing station from iPhone now includes the song and artist currently on air when the station provides them.
The web player now shows live track information sooner when you tune in to stations whose metadata is fetched in the background.
You can now choose a digital player on a computer. Switch between Analogue and Digital in Settings, under Preferences.
If SINK opens in a background tab while you were listening, it now picks up playback when you switch to it instead of showing an error.
When you're signed in, links in another language now open straight in your account's language.
The browser tab now shows the station only while it's playing, and the page's own title the rest of the time.
You can now suggest a station for us to hear. Sign in, then use Suggest a station at the foot of any page to send its name and link.
Station genres and styles now share one musical map, keeping broader families consistent across station pages, Explore, search and related stations.
Explore’s genre and style picker now uses the complete musical map, with choices that have no matching stations clearly unavailable.
Search now ranks exact genres and styles ahead of their broader musical families, bringing the closest musical matches to the top.
More like this now follows the musical connections between styles, putting the same and neighbouring styles first while treating a shared broad genre as the weakest link.
Choosing a broad style in Explore, like house, now also finds stations tagged with its narrower styles, such as deep house or tech house, and search does the same. Related stations follow the same family, so a deep house station can lead you to a tribal house one.
Explore's language filter has been removed; stations are still filtered by texture, genre, style, identity, programming, country and city.
Station pages no longer list listening identity, sonic texture or recurring programming.
Station details now show each station's listening identity, sonic texture and recurring programming.
Catalog search now understands established musical spellings and station aliases while composing with every Explore filter.
Explore now shows live match counts and adds language and recurring-programming filters, with matching Tastemakers and Hosted Shows shelves.
Related stations now reflect a station's exact styles, broader genres, listening identity and sonic texture more faithfully.
Explore now filters by style instead of subgenre, and a station's genres and styles both link straight into it.
You can now change your display name and profile photo in the iOS app.
Devices in account settings now show richer activity details, with names that persist across sign-ins.
Screen readers now announce when a station is connecting, playing or stopped, and every page has a Skip to content link.
The Accessibility page now lists the player's keyboard shortcuts and how to report a problem.
Pricing now tells you when your account already includes the plan, or when a subscription isn't available to it.
The Listen spotlight now links a station's styles alongside its genres, so a pick leads straight into Explore.
The press page now offers the SINK icon only; the wordmark downloads have been retired.
You can now position and zoom your profile photo before saving it.
You can now subscribe directly from your plan settings.
Your plan settings now show whether you can listen and where your subscription is billed.
Checkout and subscription-management problems now show a clear message in your selected language.
The Terms and Refund Policy now clearly separate cancellation, withdrawal, refunds and account deletion.
They also identify who sells each subscription and link directly to the relevant Apple or web billing process.
Your selected language now follows your account across devices.
The player now moves on from unresponsive streams and offers a retry when none can play.
The player now shows programme information on more stations from the moment you tune in.
The player now prefers a station stream with live track details before comparing audio quality.
The web player now supports MP3 stations delivered through HLS.
The station list now leads with our staff picks, followed by featured stations.
More stations now show current-track information in the player.
The homepage now opens directly onto our curated station picks.
Trending has been retired. Picks, Explore and the station index carry the browse.
The volume control now shows its current percentage on hover or keyboard focus.
The device menu now identifies the selected audio output.
Open account, plan and privacy settings directly from the account menu.
The web player no longer uploads browser crash reports.
Station maps stay unpinned when a named city cannot be located.
Transparent station artwork now blends with the surrounding surface in the player, station pages, grid cards and spotlight.
Search brings station names first
Find stations by name or their page address, with closer name matches first and more focused typo matching.
Long track details now scroll once, then stay still; hover or focus the player to see them again.
The player now keeps station location above its name and shows the editor’s note when live track details are unavailable.
Search from any page
The search box is now available anywhere the main navigation appears, and what you type carries into Explore.
Pages keep working through updates
Pages you already have open now switch safely when needed, and offer a reload when a newer version is detected.
Search keeps what you type
The search box holds every character while the results catch up, so a query typed quickly arrives whole.
City filters now keep same-named places separate.
Related stations match what you are hearing
The “If you liked this one” shelf now compares musical style, sound, and editorial character, with more specific shared traits carrying more weight.
Browsing picks up where you left off
Open a station from deep in a list and come back — Explore and the collections return you to the same place in the same list, instead of the top.
Lists keep loading as you scroll
Catalog lists now load the next stations as you reach the end of the page, so browsing a long list no longer needs a button press for every screen.
The full-screen web player has been removed; playback stays in the desktop bar or mobile mini player.
The radio player now shows a station’s city and country when it is not publishing track details.
Stations that move their stream between servers now start reliably every time you press play.
Station cards now support browser link actions such as opening in a new tab.
The browser title now stays aligned with the station playing while you browse.
Station pages now explain when a short wait is needed and offer a retry.
Now-playing information stays available while a live station is between track updates.
The radio player now uses Play and Stop. Stopping disconnects the stream while keeping your last station ready to play again.
The web player no longer includes a sleep timer.
You can now open a genre from any station card to browse every station tagged with it.
You can now share stations with their artwork on Facebook and X, or save an image for an Instagram Story.
You can now open station pages without waiting for the footer to load.
The homepage and public information pages now show their content while account details load. The catalog opens its heading and navigation while stations load.
The player now starts supported MP3 stations sooner.
You can now browse through more stations in quick succession without interruption.
The player now switches stations reliably while preparing what plays next.
The player now shows the selected station when a stream lookup fails.
You can now listen to stations whose live playlists contain longer playback windows.
You can now dismiss the expanded player with Escape when browser fullscreen is unavailable.
The iOS player now settles open or closed when a pull-down gesture is interrupted.
Your profile photo now appears in the iOS account button.
You can now tap station artwork or names on iOS to explore their story, location, website, and on-air information.
Station artwork now appears for restored iOS mini-players and stays visible after sign-in.
You can now explore Now Rising, Editor’s Selection, Just Added, and Tastemakers on iOS Home.
You can now swipe through staff picks in the iOS Home spotlight.
You can now save and share the featured station directly from the curated page.
You can now browse featured staff picks with previous and next controls without interrupting playback.
The player now tells you when a station has no stream your browser can load.
The Terms of Service now say who runs SINK, which law applies, how to complain, and how the 14-day right of withdrawal works.
The Contact page now shows the registered business details, and every legal page points to hello@sink.fm.
The web player now handles more live stations in Chrome and Safari and still tells you up front when your browser cannot play one.
The curated page now has a Tastemakers shelf of stations known for curation others follow, with a link to explore the full set.
The curated front page now shows the other staff picks beside the featured station; choose one to bring it into the spotlight.
The curated spotlight now stays still while you listen, with editor-selected stations taking turns across visits when your browser can preserve that choice.