What's new

New stations show up everywhere and station pages stop crashing.

• New
  One-click Sync directory backfills local Auto Stations into the public directory
• New
  Station pages fail soft when a directory lookup errors, with Try again and Back to directory actions
• New
  Faster dashboard load after sign-in by deduplicating auth and plan lookups
• New
  Automated regression tests now guard the station page against lookup and server failures

Content Studio playlists and AutoDJ rotation are now in sync.

• New
  Duplicate uploads no longer appear in playlists
• New
  Curated playlists take priority over library shuffle
• New
  AutoDJ stopped polluting playlists with already-played tracks
• New
  Weather breaks cached for 30 minutes to avoid provider rate limits

Tracks generated with Treblo and MusicGPT now import and save reliably to the right station.

• New
  Normalized completion statuses so finished jobs are no longer missed
• New
  Audio URLs extracted from every response shape the providers return
• New
  Rotating CDN hosts and redirects handled safely on download
• New
  Generated tracks save into the selected station scope

The 24/7 Auto Station panel is now a tabbed console instead of one endless scroll.

• New
  Station, DJ Voice, Newsroom, Weather, Music & Ads and Clock now live in their own tabs
• New
  Sticky header keeps station scope and controls in view while you work
• New
  Publish flow shows step-by-step status, inline validation errors with Fix links, and a success toast listing what went live

Custom SMTP outbound email, live hosting tiers editor, station content studio upgrades, and a wave of admin controls.

• New
  Custom SMTP settings panel

  New /admin/smtp panel to configure host, port, credentials and from-address. Includes a one-click test-send and a reusable sendMail server function you can wire into any flow — ready for your own VPS SMTP server.
• New
  Live Hosting Tiers editor

  Manage the real subscription tiers powering Pick-a-Plan and checkout from /admin/hosting-tiers — separated from the marketing pricing cards to avoid drift.
• Improved
  Station Content Studio v2

  Bulk actions, docked preview player, LUFS loudness badges, playlist templates, plan-aware gating, and filename-based auto-sorting for uploads.
• New
  Admin page manager

  Add, edit, reorder and delete pages in both the top nav and the footer from /admin/landing → Pages.
• New
  Read-only admin impersonation

  Staff can now impersonate a user account with an always-visible exit button. All mutating requests are blocked while impersonating and every session is audit-logged.
• New
  Digital wallet + loyalty rewards

  Users can deposit via PayPal, transfer credits, and earn tiered loyalty bonuses on deposits and purchases. Activity feed exposes every bonus calculation.
• New
  Broadcast scheduling for hosts

  New /host/schedule lets station owners build a weekly 24/7 clock with conflict detection.
• New
  Admin station switcher

  Pick a station once in the sidebar — auto-station, autodj, schedule, library and other panels all follow the selection.
• Improved
  CTA wiring pass

  Fixed non-functional buttons across Landing, Admin Overview, Webhooks, Billing, Builder, Licensing, and Creator Promo.
• Security
  Row-level security hardening

  Tightened policies on catalog_rights_holders, media_loudness, music_play_logs, station_chat_messages, station_clips, ad_orders and station_licenses to prevent self-approval and information leaks.

MediaMTX now calls Wowzaradio on publish, unpublish, and record-segment-complete. Every live show closes out as a draft episode with a transcode job already in flight, so the ABR HLS ladder is ready before you hit Publish.

• New
  New /api/public/hooks/mediamtx endpoint verifies a shared secret + the station stream_key, then handles publish / unpublish / record_segment_complete.
• New
  Record-complete calls insert an unpublished episode (tags: live, auto-archive) and enqueue a live_recording transcode job with metadata.episodeId so hls_url populates automatically.
• New
  docs/worker-setup.md now includes a drop-in mediamtx.yml snippet for runOnPublish / runOnUnpublish / runOnRecordSegmentComplete.

The transcode worker's HLS master playlist now takes over automatically for episode VOD, and a shared MediaMTX server is wired up so you can test live ingest without provisioning a box first.

• New
  Episodes now prefer the HLS ABR master URL over the raw upload when the transcode worker finishes a job (metadata.episodeId hop-through).
• New
  media_loudness gained hls_url so the player + admin views can surface the ABR ladder alongside the loudness verdict.
• New
  docs/worker-setup.md includes browser publish/playback + OBS RTMP instructions against mediaserver.silverstream.cam for smoke tests.

The playback ladder now negotiates WHEP realtime audio, live shows record straight to your own cloud storage, listeners can install your station as an app, and moving from another host takes a single paste.

• New
  Ultra low-latency playback ladder

  Players negotiate WHEP (~400ms) then LL-HLS then Icecast, with automatic demotion if a tier fails. A latency badge lets listeners switch tiers manually.
• New
  Low-Latency Wizard at /host/latency

  Four guided steps to verify your encoder is on air and measure real time-to-first-audio in milliseconds.
• New
  Live stream recording to your own cloud

  Record broadcasts automatically to S3, Wasabi or Cloudflare R2, manage the library, and publish any recording as an on-demand episode.
• New
  Installable station listener apps

  Every station now ships a branded PWA with its own icon, splash art and standalone player — plus an install prompt for Android and iOS.
• New
  Station team roles

  Invite DJs and managers to your station with scoped permissions instead of sharing one login.
• New
  One-click migration importer at /host/migrate

  Paste your current stream URL (including .pls/.m3u) and we relay it here instantly with zero downtime, then swap to our ingest when you cancel the old host.
• New
  Directory Submission Kit and tracker

  Copy-ready metadata plus submission tracking for TuneIn, Radio Garden and other aggregators.
• Improved
  Faster first paint

  AI assistant, search palette and admin widgets now load after the page is interactive, cutting initial JavaScript.
• Improved
  AI answer-engine optimisation

  Added /llms.txt, AI-crawler-friendly robots rules, fixed social previews, and expanded the sitemap to 1,000+ real URLs.
• Fixed
  No more interrupted play() errors

  Audio start/stop is now serialised across all players, so switching stations or tiers no longer throws playback errors.

A new Starter tier, sharper broadcaster pricing, and an ad-free membership for listeners that pays hosts.

• New
  Starter plan at $19/mo

  Scheduler, episode archives, polls, play logs and the Wowza Guide AI assistant.
• New
  Wowza+ ad-free listener pass

  $5.99/mo with a 7-day trial; hosts earn a 20% share of passes sold from their station page.
• Improved
  Plan tiers re-aligned

  Hobbyist, Starter, Creator, Pro and Network feature gates updated across the app and comparison matrix.
• Improved
  Live ad console

  Audio Ad Manager now shows real revenue, impressions and CPM targeting with CSV export.

More choice for voice, image and video generation — all with your own API keys.

• New
  VEED as a first-class provider

  Available for video, image and voice, with validation probes for both auth styles.
• New
  Wondercraft in every AI category

  Wired into the AI settings panel with health checks and preferred-provider selection.
• Improved
  Free.ai set as the default

  Image, video and writing categories now recommend Free.ai out of the box.

Search and import legally downloadable podcast episodes straight into your Media Library on Starter and above.

• New
  Podcast Index, Listen Notes, gPodder & Apple search

  Bring your own API keys, search across directories and import episodes to the Media Library in one click.
• New
  Taddy & AllFeeds.ai added

  Two more podcast directories with live key verification probes and unified import.
• Security
  Feed URL safety checks

  All feed and episode URLs pass SSRF validation, and imports respect a 30-per-day fair-use cap.

Creator, Pro and Network stations can now broadcast live from any external encoder with their own RTMP, SRT or WHIP credentials, plus a 5-step setup wizard.

• New
  Live Source Input panel

  Per-station RTMP/SRT/WHIP ingest URLs and stream keys, ready to paste into OBS, butt, Mixxx or a hardware encoder.
• New
  Guided Live Source setup wizard

  Five steps walk you from encoder settings to a live check, with green badges as each step completes.
• Security
  Stream-key authentication

  Every publish attempt is validated against your plan and station stream key before it reaches the server.
• Fixed
  Ingest URLs repaired

  Station ingest paths now use the station slug and canonical RTMP URLs, so WHIP and SRT links resolve correctly.
• Improved
  Stream health monitor

  Live path status, publisher state and viewer counts now read straight from the media server API.

More voices, controllable music sources and a clearer setup wizard.

• New
  14 new AI commentary voices

  Expanded ethnic and regional voice options for AI DJ segments.
• New
  Manual music source selection

  Toggle Library, AI-generated and royalty-free sources independently per station.
• Improved
  Clearer wizard steps

  Clickable step rail with completion checkmarks and an unambiguous Save/Launch action.

No more Unauthorized dead ends — paste a key once and it stays on your account.

• Fixed
  Unauthorized error resolved

  Free.ai requests now authenticate correctly, with a clear notice when a key is missing.
• New
  3-step unlock dialog

  Choose upgrade or key, paste, retry — triggered automatically from the Builder error banner.
• New
  Secure key screen

  /auto-station/key validates keys live against Free.ai server-side and only ever shows a masked preview.
• Improved
  Auto-validation on paste

  Keys are checked as you paste or blur, with an inline verified/failed banner before you retry.
• Improved
  Key remembered per account

  Saved keys are detected on open, so the dialog jumps straight to Retry generation.

Confirm a station really saved and launched — and see exactly what failed if it did not.

• New
  Live launch log

  Terminal-style status feed with info, success, warning and error lines in the Builder sidebar and Wizard step 5.
• Improved
  AI and music source errors surfaced

  Failed AI calls and music source lookups are now reported inline instead of failing silently.

Auto Station is now paid-member and staff only — enforced on the server, not just the UI.

• Security
  Server-side Auto Station authorization

  Every Auto Station read/write now asserts an active Creator, Pro or Network plan (or staff) before running.
• New
  Auto Station button on the Builder

  Paid members and staff get a one-click route into Auto Station; free users see a locked chip.
• Improved
  Upgrade tooltip

  The locked chip explains the plan requirement and links straight to billing or the key screen.

A new Creator plan for independent artists, plus onboarding for verification and payouts.

• New
  Creator plan launched

  $29/mo tier with 90% revenue splits and ISRC licensing access.
• New
  Creator onboarding flow

  Guided verification, revenue split configuration and PayPal payout setup at /creator-onboarding.
• Improved
  Plan gates realigned

  Voice Studio, MusicGPT and high-split revenue tools now match the advertised tier matrix.

Broadcast-grade audio pipeline per station with LUFS normalization, crossfade, dead-air protection, and live-assist takeover.

• New
  Station Programmer panel

  Configure normalization, limiter, crossfade, and harbor live-assist per station from /host/console.
• New
  .liq script + Docker bundle

  One-click Copy Compose and docker run snippets scoped to each station.
• New
  Programmer webhook

  Liquidsoap heartbeats, track updates, and errors stream into station_programmer_events via /api/public/hooks/liquidsoap/:kind.
• New
  Public rotation M3U

  Liquidsoap pulls the AutoStation rotation from a per-station playlist feed.

Zero-downtime cutover guide plus VPS bootstrap script for moving stations to a new server.

• New
  5-phase transfer checklist

  docs/station-transfer-checklist.md walks through inventory, prep, per-station cutover, verification, and rollback.
• New
  vps-install.sh

  Automated Docker + FFmpeg + UFW bootstrap for the target server.
• Improved
  AutoStation fallback stays armed

  Listeners never hit silence during DNS propagation.

MusicGPT and Treblo now generate with smarter polling and a global key fallback so members skip the key setup hurdle.

• Improved
  MUSICGPT_API_KEY global fallback

  Members can generate immediately without pasting their own key.
• Improved
  Exponential polling backoff

  Treblo 4s → 6s → 10s; MusicGPT 6s → 10s → 15s cuts overhead on long renders.
• Fixed
  Clearer terminal messages

  Rejections and timeouts now surface instead of infinite spinners.
• Fixed
  Treblo key validator

  Rejects pasted status text and whitespace so bad keys can no longer be saved.

Signed-in users can no longer create their own wallet rows — balances are provisioned exclusively by the signup trigger.

• Security
  Dropped wallets self-insert policy

  Wallets are created only via handle_new_user_wallet and the ensure_wallet SECURITY DEFINER helper, always starting at zero.

Dial in exactly how failover behaves per station.

• New
  Grace period slider (0–10 min)
• New
  Source picker: AutoStation, Playlist, or Silence
• New
  Optional voice announcement text
• New
  Minutely cron promotes pending fallbacks

Ready-to-paste mediamtx.yml block wires every station path with one edit.

• New
  pathDefaults hooks — no per-station duplication
• New
  Publish / Unpublish / RecordSegmentComplete wired
• New
  Shared-secret auth via TRANSCODE_WORKER_SECRET

RTMP/SRT/WHIP ingest + LL-HLS/WHEP delivery wired end-to-end.

• Security
  Auto-provisioned ingest URLs per station
• New
  Webhooks toggle ON AIR in real time
• New
  Live archives auto-transcode into episodes

New Stream Health panel in the Host Console with one-click stream-key rotation.

• New
  Real-time bitrate, uptime, packet-loss readouts
• Security
  Rotate stream_key instantly if leaked
• New
  Copy-ready ingest URL + key

Never go silent — AutoStation takes over the moment your encoder drops.

• New
  Per-station fallback toggle
• New
  AutoStation keeps the ON AIR LED lit
• New
  Publish clears fallback automatically

New /admin/mediamtx-events page with 24h tiles, search, and payload inspection.

• New
  Every publish/unpublish/segment logged
• New
  Latency + IP + result JSON
• Fixed
  Filter by event, error, station

Every network station page now exposes RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds so any reader — Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, podcatchers — can subscribe to the now-playing track and daily schedule.

• New
  Per-station RSS feed

  Live at /stations_/<slug>/feed.xml with the current now-playing track, full schedule, station artwork and the live audio stream as a media enclosure.
• New
  Per-station Atom feed

  Same content served as Atom 1.0 at /stations_/<slug>/atom.xml for readers and tools that prefer Atom.
• Improved
  Feed autodiscovery in <head>

  Each station page advertises both feeds via <link rel="alternate"> so browsers and RSS extensions detect them automatically.
• Improved
  Short cache + TTL

  Feeds cache for 60 seconds with a matching RSS <ttl> so readers pick up new tracks as they rotate without hammering the origin.

A focused reliability pass across Settings → Billing, the Treblo panel, the public station embed player and the Users & Roles admin.

• Fixed
  Billing Manage button works again

  Fixed the broken Manage subscription action in Settings → Billing and cleaned up related errors.
• New
  Test Treblo Key button

  One-click validation of your Treblo API key from the Treblo settings panel.
• New
  Server-side Treblo key validator

  New /api/treblo/validate endpoint returns standardized results (plan, credits, latency) and structured error codes.
• Fixed
  Embed Player on public station page

  The Embed Player action now renders a compact, autoplay-capable player with live status, now playing and an Open link.
• Fixed
  Admin Create user unauthorized error

  Users & Roles admin actions no longer fail with Unauthorized: No authorization header provided when signed in via the Studio admin cookie.
• Security
  Staff auth middleware

  New requireStaffAuth accepts either a Supabase bearer token or the Studio admin cookie, keeping admin server functions secure across both sign-in paths.

A dedicated place — for listeners, hosts and admins — to follow every shipped feature, fix and security hardening.

• New
  What's New page

  Public timeline at /whats-new and an admin mirror at /admin/whats-new.
• Improved
  In-app discoverability

  Added What's New to the main site nav and the admin sidebar.

Browse every AI-generated track in the Media Library and remix any of them through Treblo's /v3/extend endpoint.

• New
  AI generations filter

  Sidebar chip in the Media Library lists only Treblo-origin tracks.
• New
  Remix any AI track

  Re-runs Treblo in extend mode and re-hosts the remix back into your library.
• Improved
  Prefs auto-applied

  Default format, instrumental mode and auto-queueing are pulled from your saved Treblo settings.

Bring-your-own Treblo API key, with shared preferences that flow into the generator, AutoDJ and AI Studio.

• New
  Treblo settings panel

  Manage your API key, default format and instrumental mode from /settings.
• New
  Shared AutoDJ queue

  Send tracks straight from Media Library or AI Generator into AutoDJ and AI Studio.
• Security
  Provider keys locked down

  user_provider_keys table is RLS-scoped to the owner.

Spin up an AI DJ persona, schedule talk breaks and let a station run end-to-end without a human at the desk.

• New
  AI Radio Studio

  New /admin/ai-studio with persona builder, Gemini scripts and OpenAI TTS.
• New
  Autopilot mode

  24/7 automated daily scheduling for any station.
• New
  Treblo Melodia v3

  Generate music inside the platform and re-host it in a private bucket.

Monetize the platform end-to-end: take applications, provision streams and track MRR/ARR in one place.

• New
  Hosting Manager hub

  /admin/hosting with MRR / ARR stats and subscription tracking.
• New
  Host onboarding wizard

  /host/apply walks users through tiers, stream provisioning and credential reveal.
• New
  PayPal payouts

  Subscription billing + revenue-share payouts to hosts and creators.

Set per-track pricing, split revenue cleanly and pay out on a weekly or monthly cadence by tier.

• New
  Royalty Splits module

  Auto-calculate 70/30, 50/50 or 100% splits with per-track pricing $0–$10.
• New
  Payout history + CSV export

  Shared timeline for artists and admins with filtering.
• New
  Real-time analytics

  Live accrual visible to creators in /creator/royalties.

Search, filter and act in bulk across the user base — plus safe admin impersonation for support.

• New
  Bulk actions + filters

  Search and act on multiple users at once from /admin/users.
• New
  Admin impersonation

  Step into a user session with a persistent ImpersonationBanner.
• New
  FAQ tab in Landing editor

  Full CRUD over homepage FAQs with dynamic FAQPage JSON-LD.

A floating glass-pill header, grouped product nav and a much tidier mobile menu.

• Improved
  New site header

  Grouped navigation in a single rounded pill with a responsive mobile sheet.
• Fixed
  Landing page saves persist

  Edits in the Landing editor now flow through to the live homepage correctly.
• Fixed
  Storage & CDN panel hydration

  Fixed empty-state flash before localStorage loaded.

Multiple rounds of RLS, column-level grants and trigger guards across the most sensitive tables.

• Security
  host_stations credentials locked

  Stream keys are no longer readable by anon and only staff can write to credential columns.
• Security
  user_roles visibility

  Non-privileged role assignments are now hidden from regular users.
• Security
  DM realtime leak closed

  dm_messages / dm_threads removed from the realtime publication.
• Security
  ai-music bucket policies

  Folder-level INSERT/UPDATE policies scoped to auth.uid().