DesiZone 20th Anniversary on 21st Feb

Two decades of music, memories, and magic!

On the 21st of February 2025, DesiZone Radio is proud to celebrate 20 amazing years of bringing you the best beats, the greatest throwbacks, and the most cherished moments. What an incredible journey it’s been!

Non-stop Happy Hour

This year, we’re taking our anniversary bash to the next level! Get ready for 24 hours of non-stop Happy Hour — from midnight to midnight (CET), it’s all about your favorite requests, non-stop entertainment, and some anniversary surprises you won’t want to miss!

We wouldn’t be here without YOU — our listeners, supporters, and music lovers who’ve been part of this unforgettable ride. Thank you for being the heart of DesiZone Radio. Here’s to making our 20th anniversary a celebration for the ages!

Tune in, turn up, and let’s make history together!

#DesiZone20Years #MusicThatConnects #AnniversaryCelebration

DesiZone 19th Anniversary on 21st Feb

It’s that time of the year again! On the 21st of February 2024, DesiZone Radio will be celebrating 19 years of incredible music and unforgettable memories!

And what’s a celebration without a special treat? This year, we’re extending our Happy Hour to last an entire 24 hours! That’s right, from midnight to midnight (Central European Time), it’s all about more music, more requests, and non-stop entertainment.

We could never have reached this milestone without your love and support. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of this journey. Let’s make this 19th anniversary one for the books! 🎶❤️

Thank You for the last 3 Years!

As Desi Hits 2000s and Nostalgic Bollywood 90s celebrate 3 years on the air, we extend a heartfelt thank you to you, our listeners, for every song request, story shared, and moment of love. Your passion for music has turned our stations into a vibrant community. Here's to many more years of unforgettable melodies and memories! ðŸ˜‡

Listen to DesiZone on PS5 / Xbox through Discord

You can now listen to DesiZone Radio, Desi Hits 2000s and Nostalgic Bollywood 90s while you are gaming on Playstation 5 or Xbox. Just create a Discord account, join our Discord server, Link your Discord account to Xbox or Playstation & join one of the voice channels to listen to the radio. You can transfer the voice channel to your gaming console.

You can also search & request (unlimited) songs through the discord mobile app, official web app or desktop app.

Happy weekend! 🎮

Thank You for the Wishes

18 years streaming strong! ðŸ’ª Thank you for all wishes and lots of requests! DesiZone Radio only exists only because of you, the listeners and requesters. May there be many more years to come!

Sharing some updates which we currently are woking on:

• Updated website design
• DesiZone Radio App for Android, for listening (with Android Auto support)
• Updating Discord Bot, where you also can search and request songs with no daily limt ðŸ˜.
• Updating DesiZone Bollywood Music Trivia bot on Discord, you can already test the Beta version on Discord to test your music knowledge ðŸ¤“

Happy listening and requesting! ðŸ˜Ž

DesiZone 18th Anniversary on 21st Feb

Yesss, on the 21st of Feb 2023, DesiZone Radio will exist for 18 years!

This means also that on this day only, Happy Hour will be 24 hours long! (Central European Time)

Meaning that more and more requests are being played for the whole day. 

Thank you everyone for the amazing 18 years of love and support! ðŸ˜‰

Friday's = New Music

New music will be added every Friday @ 12pm (CET). Are we missing songs? Report it in the Discord Chat app so the admin can verify and add any missing songs. (Hindi/Urdu & Punjabi songs only. And on DesiZone Radio only songs from 2010 or later, for older songs you should go to the other DesiZone stations. 😉).

Did you know you can easily search & request songs from the Discord Chat app? We even have a Bollywood Music Trivia bot in testing phase, based on songs from DesiZone Radio, Desi Hits 2000s and Nostalgic Bollywood 90s!. Just try it out (Use the command !trivia), test your Bollywood music knowledge and earn ÐƵ Points. We are still improving the bot, so your feedback is welcome 😎.

Forgot Password issue solved

The forgot password function has been fixed and should be working now.

For any issues, contact us trough mail or discord.

RIP K.K.

Another great singer passed away. ðŸ˜¥ May your soul rest in peace. ðŸ™ We are still enjoying your songs. on DesiZone Radio and Desi Hits 2000s.

Congrats Hemu & Alisha

Congratulation on being married for 6 months! thank you for listening and requesting! 🎉

RIP Sidhu Moose Wala

😔

RIP Taz (Stereo Nation)

Iconic Asian music singer Taz from Stereo Nation passed away. His music will live forever in our hearts and on DesiZone Radio. Thank you Taz for contacting us for promoting your latest single last year (Beautiful) on DesiZone Radio. It was an honor. You defined pop-bhangra-fusion which is still living on. May your soul rest in Peace.

Thank You!

Thank you for all the wishes. Hope you enjoyed requesting and listening on DesiZone Radio 17th Anniversary. ðŸ¤—

Feel free to chat on Discord

Today is DesiZone 17th Anniversary

Dedicating this special day with playing more of your requests!
This means that songs in the requestlist are being played faster.

Daily request limit has also increased to 30!

Happy requesting! ðŸ˜

DesiZone Radio's 17th B'day

On the Feb 21st, DesiZone Radio will exist for 17 years, to celebrate this, Happy Hour will become Happy Day! Meaning, dedicating the whole day with your requests.

Standard requesting rules and limitations still apply.
(spamming will result in banning...)

Happy Hour = 7 am/pm CET

Happy Hour is now both at 7 am and 7 pm CET. ðŸŽ…
Happy New Year!

Added Top 21 Requested Punjabi Songs

For the Top 21 requested songs of the year charts, the top 21 requested Punjabi songs has been added and the Top 21 requested pop songs (which consisted of Hindi, Punjabi, etc.) has been changed to Top 21 Requested Hindi Pop songs. ðŸ¤Ÿ

User Playlists are Public by default

When you create a playlist, it will be set Public by default. All the created playlists are now set to public.

You can still turn off this setting on your playlist(s).

The playlists are at the moment not visible for others. This feature will come next year.

When your playlist is set to public, it can be selected by us to be played on the radio. ðŸ˜‰

Happy Hour everyday @ 7PM (CET)

Introducing Happy Hour ðŸŽ‰ on DesiZone Radio everyday @ 7.00 pm (CET) [10.30 pm (IST)]. 
Dedicating over one hour only on playing requests. (Standard requesting rules still apply)

Happy Requesting!!! ðŸ˜Ž

2 Streaming servers taken down

Unfortunately we had to take down 2 streaming servers. See our WIKI to see which streaming url we support.

Because we were busy fixing another streaming server and updating the webplayer on the website, we were not able to update the radio with the latest songs.

70+ New songs will be added tomorrow (15-Oct) @ 12pm CET

DesiZone on HTTPS

DesiZone Radio website is now using HTTPS (SSL) for more security. ðŸ”

We also have additional https streams working on Icecast. https://source.desizoneradio.com ðŸŽµ

A list of all the available streams can be found on our new WIKI page. ðŸ“ƒ

User Playlist Request System is working again

You can now request your playlist to be played again, as the issue has been resolved. (v4.40.1)

Userplaylist requestsystem not working

There is currently an ongoing issue with the user playlist requestsystem. Trying to resolve this asap. Issue 151

Regarding last week and next months

Last week there were some interruptions on the radio stations because we changed to a new ISP for faster connection. Most things are working now, but you can expect some small interruptions.

Regarding updates for the upcoming months, we are focussing more on the back-end of the radio's. So less new front-end features/visual changes will be released.

Our next focus is:

- to implement HTTPS support for our streams. No downtime is expected for this.
- to implement HTTPS encryption on de website. We expect that the website will be down for a short while.
- to increase the time you will be logged in.
 

We will try to add more new songs to DesiZone Radio frequently.

Thank you and enjoy! ðŸ™

Tue 22nd June - 12 hours downtime expected

On Tuesday June 22nd, all 3 radio stations will be offline for almost 12 hours due to another maintenance which could not be 100% completed on the last maintenance. Requesting songs will not be possible. 

On Wednesday 23rd June, a downtime of max 15 minutes will be expected because of an ISP change.

Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.

14th June - 12 hours downtime expected

On Monday June 14th, all 3 radio stations will be offline for almost 12 hours due to maintenance. Requesting songs will not be possible. Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.

Issues on Shoutcast

Shoutcast, the streaming provider are having issues at the moment. In order to listen, you can use the webplayer or mobile apps like Audials, Zemo Player & RadioGalaxy.

5min expected downtime on Monday 21st April

Expected downtime on Monday 21st april as mentioned from Shoutcast, the streaming service:

 

Dear broadcaster,

 

Please note that Monday April 12 during the day, the Shoutcast services will undergo scheduled maintenance to improve our infrastructure as a whole and fix other service bugs.

 

This maintenance allows our teams to finalize our work towards a new infrastructure where we will be able to improve the stream stability and offer more bug fixing and future improvements over time.

 

What to expect during the maintenance period:

Your station's stream will be interrupted for 1 to 5 minutes during maintenance. 

 

You should be able to enjoy a better and stronger Shoutcast experience the moment the maintenance is over.

 

Thank you for your understanding.

 

Best regards,

 

The Shoutcast team

Chat with us on Discord!

You can find us on our brand new Discord channel! 

Planned Maintenance on 1st March

Somewhere between 12 PM - 6 PM on the 1st of March, All DesiZone Radio stations might be offline for max 1 hour. Sorry for the inconvenience. ðŸ™

DesiZone Radio 16th Birthday on Sunday 21st Feb 2021

This Sunday your requests will directly be placed in the queue. No Requestlist (waitinglist) for a whole day!! (Request rules & limitations still apply)

This 21st February 2021 marks DesiZone Radio's (sweet) 16th Birthday. 🎂 Thank you so much for requesting and listening. ðŸŽ‰ðŸŽŠ

Cheers! ðŸ˜Ž

Update regarding streaming issues

As some of you might have noticed, there were some streaming issues, and the website was also not available at all times since the beginning of this year.

These were related to our ISP and hardware which was not capable anymore to handle lots of traffic.

Most of the issues have been fixed by hardware replacement and by using new streaming options.

Some changes have been made which could have a huge impact on existing websites and mobile apps using our old stream which has been replaced:

DEPRECIATED STREAM: http://www.desizone.nl:8000/ (this stream redirects to http://stream.desizoneradio.com:8080/)

Available streams:

• http://source.desizoneradio.com/
• http://stream.desizoneradio.com:8080/

(applies to: DesiZone Radio, Desi Hits 2000s by DesiZone Radio & Nostalgic Bollywood 90s by DesiZone Radio)

Check our new twitter page for planned maintenance and other updates.

Planned Maintenance:

• 11th Feb 2021 @ 1.00 am CET (replacing ISP hardware)
• 12th Feb 2021 @ 1.00 am CET (Maintenance on http://stream.desizoneradio.com:8080/)

Introducing: Playlist Request System (v4.24)

Proud to introduce DesiZone’s Playlist Request System. (Only when signed in into your account)

After you created your playlist with songs, you can request this playlist to be played which eventually can be added directly to the queue (instead of the requestlist) only when the playlist has been approved by the DJ.

On your every playlist there will be a Playlist Request button, but there are some RULES:

• When you click the Playlist Request button, the DJ needs to approve before it can be played

• When approved,
  • you will receive an email
  • you can add the songs to the queue whenever you want
  • changes to the playlist is not allowed unless you cancel the request

• Playlist Request is limited to only once a day, for now1

• Only the first 3 songs can be played on your playlist, for now1

• Duplicate songs on your playlist will not be played

• When requested, the playlist will mark songs red if they are not eligible to play like:
  • Songs that are not in the first three positions
  • Songs that have been played recently

1: The daily limitation and amount of songs that you can request to be played is based on your personal level. Based on your choice of song requests, playlist requests, the DJ can raise your level. You will start at level 1.

New features in v4.20

​​​​​​Dear visitor/listener/requester,

On this page I will place all the news and new features starting from v4.20

v4.20 Features a User Login System (which enables the following features):

1. When requesting songs, your (user)name has been automatically filled in

2. Favorite Songs: 

   • Mark song as your Favorite

   • See all your favorite songs in the "My Favorite" page

3. Personal Playlist:

   • Create/edit/delete personal playlists on the "My Playlists" page

   • Add songs to the playlist (of course 😋)

   • Make your personal playlist public or private
     (Viewing playlists made by others is coming soon! ðŸ˜Š)

And of course this News page is also "new" ðŸ˜

Let me know in the comments if there are any issues or new ideas.

Request, Listen & Enjoy ðŸ˜Ž