StreamsPlayer 26.0819.0156

What's new

• The catalog can shrink to a compact radio panel while a station plays. The small window stays above other programs and carries the station, the current track, the volume, the transport, the sleep timer with its countdown and Random station - one taskbar button, one Alt+Tab entry, one sound.
• Volume, the sleep timer and stop work the same on the panel and in the catalog, and coming back restores the full window as you left it - scroll position, filter and selection included.
• Stopping the radio, or a station that drops out, leaves the panel where it is instead of throwing the catalog over your work. Dragged anywhere, the panel returns inside a visible screen. It is a mode for the session - the next launch opens the catalog.
• Play a random station. One press picks from the whole catalog, ignoring the search, the facets and the active collection, and skips hidden stations, video and RTSP. It is on the Operations menu and on the panel.
• A drawn station that stays silent is replaced by the next draw without a dialog, and after a run of silent ones the hunt stops and says so.
• Click anywhere on a volume slider to jump straight to that level, in the catalog and in the player.
• Pin a station with a very long name to the desktop without losing the application, and glyph buttons are legible again in the dark theme.

The channel list bundled for a first launch without network was refreshed to the bank published on 2026-08-15 - 18 628 channels.

Install

winget install SerZhyAle.StreamsPlayer

Or download the portable ZIP below, unpack it anywhere and run StreamsPlayer.exe. Windows 10 1809 or later, x64. Verify the download against the .sha256 file beside it.

The Microsoft Store build follows once certification completes.

Notes

Requires no account. No advertising, analytics or telemetry. Catalog refresh is explicit - the app never downloads a channel list on its own. Local state lives in %LOCALAPPDATA%\StreamsPlayer.