Sam Lindqvist has been with ArrayFM since the very first broadcast. Our favourite metric is the number of listeners who stay through the ad break. Our community Discord is where most show ideas start and where most bad puns go to live forever.
A few thank-yous
We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery. The chat is moderated by humans, which keeps it friendly, weird and welcoming. We learned early that a stable stream matters more than a fancy one.
Some weeks the playlist is meticulously planned; other weeks it is a group chat argument that somehow turns into a show. The studio is small, the monitors are loud and the coffee machine has its own on-call rotation. When a listener sends a track we have never heard, it goes straight into the next hour. We believe the music should never stop just because you clicked a link.
- Weekend throwbacks from 08:00
- Chat moderated by real people
- Shows archived for 90 days
- Transcripts for every talk segment
We keep a strict no-autoplay policy on the site: you press play, and then we never interrupt you. Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. The station started as a side project in a spare room and a borrowed microphone. If you have ever wondered why a song sounds warmer on air, the answer is a ridiculous amount of compression.
The numbers
Guests are always surprised by how relaxed the studio is, until the ON AIR light turns red. Our engineers obsess over latency because a stream that stutters is a stream people switch off. The best feedback we ever got was a single line: “you made my deploy go faster”. We measure success in hours listened, not clicks, which keeps us honest about what actually matters.
Our favourite metric is the number of listeners who stay through the ad break. Good radio sounds effortless, but every minute on air has at least ten minutes of prep behind it. Every Friday we look at the numbers, and every Friday the numbers say people want more synthwave. We record every show, trim the talk, and publish it as a podcast by the next morning. A radio station is really a promise: that there will be something good playing whenever you tune in.
A station is only as good as its worst transition.
Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. Every Friday we look at the numbers, and every Friday the numbers say people want more synthwave. Some weeks the playlist is meticulously planned; other weeks it is a group chat argument that somehow turns into a show. Our schedule is built in blocks, with softer sounds in the morning and heavier beats after dark. We believe the music should never stop just because you clicked a link.
Behind the scenes
Radio has always been about company, and that has not changed just because the transmitter is now a rack of servers. Late nights are for experiments: long mixes, ambient sets and the occasional field recording. We learned early that a stable stream matters more than a fancy one.
Most of our DJs have day jobs in software, design or support, which explains the jokes. Some of our most-loved segments started as a joke in the green room. Every Friday we look at the numbers, and every Friday the numbers say people want more synthwave. The archive now holds more than two thousand hours of shows, all searchable by track and guest.
The short version
Morning shows are for energy, weather, traffic and the one story everyone at work will talk about. Our community Discord is where most show ideas start and where most bad puns go to live forever. We keep the stream running around the clock, which means someone is always awake, caffeinated and slightly too excited about a B-side. Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. The chat is moderated by humans, which keeps it friendly, weird and welcoming.
We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery. The chat is moderated by humans, which keeps it friendly, weird and welcoming. Our engineers obsess over latency because a stream that stutters is a stream people switch off. The request line gets more messages than ever, and our DJs read every single one on air.
What comes next
When a listener sends a track we have never heard, it goes straight into the next hour. We record every show, trim the talk, and publish it as a podcast by the next morning. Our community Discord is where most show ideas start and where most bad puns go to live forever. Accessibility matters to us, so every show gets a transcript and every page works with a keyboard.
Our community Discord is where most show ideas start and where most bad puns go to live forever. Our favourite metric is the number of listeners who stay through the ad break. We measure success in hours listened, not clicks, which keeps us honest about what actually matters. Our schedule is built in blocks, with softer sounds in the morning and heavier beats after dark.
The best feedback we ever got was a single line: “you made my deploy go faster”. Most of our DJs have day jobs in software, design or support, which explains the jokes. The studio is small, the monitors are loud and the coffee machine has its own on-call rotation.