What’s New on Dogglounge – Dogglounge Radio

Recent work on Dogglounge — new features, fixes and things worth knowing about. Newest first.

6 October 2026

Alex Motu joins the schedule Alex Motu is on live every Tuesday afternoon, 2 until 4, and the set goes out again on Friday mornings from 9. He has been in the dutch house scene since 1989, and his page has the rest of the story.
Ask DoggyBot for a DJ's sets The archive holds over fifteen hundred shows and DoggyBot could not see any of them — it would happily talk about a DJ while having no idea the station had four hundred of their sets. Now "got any Voodoo Lopez sets" tells you how many there are and links you straight to the newest. Say sets, shows, episodes or mixes and it looks in the archive; leave that out and it checks the music rotation instead.
Ask how many people are listening Say "doggybot how many are listening", or just "!listeners", and it tells you — along with the busiest it has been today and the best the station has ever had. The figure was always there, it simply had no way of being asked for.
DoggyBot tells you when your request comes on A request made while a DJ is live can be half an hour from the air, by which point you have usually stopped watching for it. DoggyBot now says something the moment your record actually drops, so you can go back to whatever you were doing and still catch it. If you have been waiting a while it says that too.
It says hello when you turn up Say anything in the chat after being away and DoggyBot welcomes you in. It only does this once — if you are around all evening it is not going to keep greeting you — and it holds off for a moment when several people arrive at once, so it stays a hello rather than a racket.
Ask DoggyBot who is on tonight It reads the actual schedule now, so "doggybot who's on tonight" tells you what is on air and what follows, with the times. It used to answer that question with whatever came to mind, which was sometimes right and sometimes an invention. "!schedule" does the same thing.
It will admit when we have not got somebody Asked about an artist, DoggyBot would describe them confidently whether or not the station had ever played them — and you would then request one and be turned away. It checks the library before it says anything now: ask "doggybot do you have Ross Couch" and you get a straight answer with a few of his tracks, or a straight no.
It can follow a conversation Every message used to be read on its own, so asking a follow-up got you a blank look — "tell us about Hugo LX" then "what else has he done?" made no sense to it. It now remembers the last few things you said for about twenty minutes. It also knows what is playing while you are talking to it.
Ask it what it can do Nothing it could do was written down anywhere. "!help", or just "doggybot what can you do", now lists it: requests, what is playing, what played recently, what is coming up, and the schedule.
Requests during a live show A request made while a DJ is on air waits until the set finishes, which looked exactly like being ignored. DoggyBot now says so when it queues one, and names the DJ you are waiting on.

5 October 2026

Ask DoggyBot for a track the way you would say it Requests used to need the exact form "artist - title", with the dash, and almost nobody got it right first time. Now you can just say it: "doggybot play It's About That Time by Hugo LX". The old form still works, and so does a dash with no spaces, a dash pasted from Bandcamp, and a trailing "please". Spelling does not have to be perfect either — ask for Playground by Shmoov and you will get Schmoov!.
If we have not got it, DoggyBot says what we have Asking for something the station does not own used to get "couldn't find it, try a different spelling" — which sent you off respelling a track that was never here. Now DoggyBot names a few records it does have by that artist, and a one-word "yes" queues the first one. You can also just name any of the others instead.
You get the original, not somebody else's remix Where the library holds both an original and a remix of the same track, a plain request used to be a coin toss — and it usually landed on the remix. Now it gives you the original. Ask for the remix by name and you still get the remix.
A clearer answer when a request is turned down Requests are limited to one every thirty minutes. When you hit that limit DoggyBot used to say it could not find the track at all, which was simply wrong — it had found it. It now tells you the station turned the request down, and why, so you know to come back rather than keep retyping.

26 September 2026

The stream is now 192kbps It has run at 128kbps for years. At 192 the low end and the pads come through properly — on deep house that is most of the record. Nothing needs changing at your end; the player, the apps and the podcast feeds all picked it up on their own. One thing worth knowing if you listen on mobile data: it now uses about half as much again, roughly 85MB an hour instead of 58MB.
Music you have not heard in years A fault in how tracks were being picked had the station drawing from only a few dozen records. Fixing it meant everything in the library takes its turn again — and a couple of dozen records that had been sitting in a category nothing could reach, some unplayed for over three years, are back in rotation. Expect some unfamiliar ones for a while.
Who else has been around The sidebar shows members who have been on the site recently, with the year they joined. Some of these accounts go back to 2004. Every member page and the directory carry a join date now too.

23 September 2026

The same songs were coming round too often For three days the station kept replaying the same couple of dozen records, in the same order, every few hours. That was a mistake in how tracks were being chosen, not a shortage of music — the library is over seventeen hundred tracks and only forty-six of them were getting on air. It is fixed, and the way it picks now always reaches for whatever has gone longest without playing, so everything comes round in turn. Some records that had not aired in two or three years are back in rotation, including a couple of dozen that had been sitting in a category nothing could reach.
A bit of downtempo in the mix Slower records now come round about once an hour rather than almost never. There are over three hundred of them and they all take a turn.

20 September 2026

Live sets replayed every week Every DJ now has a weekly slot where their most recent live set goes out again: DJ Channing on Mondays, Mazza and Neonlogic on Tuesdays, Voodoo Lopez on Wednesdays, Sara Scruton on Thursdays, Odogg on Saturdays and NCJ on Sundays. It always picks the newest set that DJ recorded, so a show that airs live once comes back around on its own — nothing needs setting up afterwards.

10 September 2026

Comments without an account Anyone can comment on an episode now, or pin a comment to a moment in the mix, without signing up. A first comment waits to be approved; after that they appear straight away.
Better podcast search Searching the archive now matches each word on its own, so "voodoo 14" finds VOODOO LOPEZ: 14. It used to look for the whole phrase in one piece and find nothing. Searching a DJ's name together with a title works too — "voodoo nemo" returns the one set rather than all 405.
Tip the DJ Episodes carry the DJ's own tip link under the player, where it can actually be seen — it used to sit below the whole tracklist. The money goes straight to the DJ; the station takes nothing and never sees it.

8 September 2026

Chat while you listen Episode pages carry the chat, so a set can be listened to and talked about without keeping a second tab open. It is the same room everywhere — someone playing a 2019 set is talking to whoever is around now, not to an empty room of their own.
Episodes keep playing as you browse Starting an episode and moving to another page no longer stops it. A bar along the bottom shows what is playing, how far in you are, and takes you back to the episode. Refreshing still stops it — no browser allows audio to restart without a click.
Plays and likes on episodes Each episode shows how many times it has been played here, and carries a heart anyone can press. Downloads are counted separately and come from podcast apps, which is a different thing entirely.

7 September 2026

Record label pages Sixty-two labels with a real catalogue on air now have a page of their own: the artists signed to them, their most played records here, and how the label has fared year by year. Linked from the artist pages and the charts. Only imprints with several artists and several tracks get one — a label with a single artist is that artist under another name.

6 September 2026

VIP Lounge A second chat room, for members, alongside the main one.
Pick your own name in chat Guests can choose a name instead of appearing as a number, and are marked as guests so members are still told apart.
GIFs in chat A GIF picker in the chat, searching Giphy.
Adding the app to an iPhone The Add to Home Screen instructions are a walkthrough now, drawing the icons at the size they appear on the phone, rather than a line of text telling you to tap Share. Apple gives no way to do this in one tap, so the best available is a clear explanation.

31 August 2026

Buy links on episode tracklists Every track in an episode's tracklist now carries a Discogs, Beatport and Traxsource link, so a record you hear in a set can be tracked down and bought. Added to around 6,500 tracks across 336 episodes; tracklists that are not laid out one track per line are left alone.
Listener figures in the player bar The bar that follows you around the site now carries the 24-hour peak, the average and the busiest hour alongside the live count.

30 August 2026

Charts A new /charts/ page: the most played artists, tracks and record labels on Dogglounge — all time, over the last 30 days, and for every year back to 2010. Counted from the station's own airplay log rather than a poll.
Fifteen years of airplay recovered Over a million plays going back to June 2010, rebuilt from old station database backups and now kept up to date automatically. Roughly eleven months of 2022–23 were lost before the recovery and could not be retrieved.
Play counts on artist pages Artist pages now show how often the station has played someone, when they first aired and their busiest year — where the artist has been in rotation.
Artist pages from tracklists Every artist appearing in three or more Dogglounge tracklists now has a page listing the sets they turn up in, with a short biography and photo from Discogs.
Live show alerts Listeners can opt in to an email or a browser notification when a DJ goes live. Strictly opt-in, with one-click unsubscribe.
The player follows you around the site Music no longer stops when you move between pages. Refreshing still stops it — no browser allows audio to restart without a click.
Scheduled tasks repaired The site's background jobs had stopped running, which meant live alerts could not have been sent at all.
About page Live station figures, the DJ roster, how to listen, and screenshots of the site through the years from the Internet Archive.

29 August 2026

About this artist The now-playing panel and artist pages now carry a short biography, a photo and a link to the artist on Discogs.
Podcast artwork per episode Every episode now carries its own cover art in the podcast feed, sized to Apple's requirements, so episodes no longer fall back to the station logo.
Subscribe links The podcasts page now links straight to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the rest.
Install as an app A prompt to install Dogglounge to a phone's home screen, shown only where the browser supports it.
Site footer and podcast search listings A proper footer across the site, and structured data so podcast episodes appear correctly in search results.

28 August 2026

DJ directory A browsable roster of the station's DJs, editable from the admin.
Episode player with comments Episodes play in place with a waveform, and listeners can leave a comment pinned to a moment in the mix.
Listener map A live map of where people are tuned in from.
Podcast download stats Episode download figures brought into the site.

27 August 2026

Recently played A compact recently-played list, replacing an embed that pulled in three external scripts and a page of markup on every song change.
DJ episode uploads DJs can upload a mix and its details themselves, delivered straight to the station.
SoundCloud import Existing SoundCloud sets can be imported as episodes.
Faster pages Around 180KB of styling that was being re-sent with every page is now a cached file, cutting a large chunk off each page load.

25 August 2026

Search visibility Structured data across the site so Google understands the station, its shows and its episodes.

23 August 2026

Installable web app Dogglounge can be added to a phone home screen and opened like an app, with offline handling for the pages it can cache.

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