Live365 Broadcaster Feature Requests

Welcome to the Live365 Broadcasters Feature Requests log! Our goal is to build the best platform possible to help all our broadcasters. To help make sure we are building the features you specifically want to see, we opened up this public feature requests log. This gives you, the user, the ultimate power because you now decide what we build next! Please submit any features you'd like to see built and be sure to vote on the ones that are most important to you.

772 votes

Track and Playlist Statistical Reports

Ability to pull statistics and Export to CSV : Tracks and Playlists, number of disconnects when track/playlist played, number of spins/listens, Date Added, Playlists ...
Suggested by: Jason Stoddard (13 Jul, '18) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 253
487 votes

Audio normalization, gain and EQ on the station dashboard.

Broadcasters would like additional audio tools on the Live365 Dashboard to control or shape the sound coming from AutoDJ or Scheduled Events. This way, they could do ...
Suggested by: Philip (20 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 02 Jun Comments: 98
404 votes

Show Station Icon When Ad is Playing or no Album cover is available

More so, allow us to upload a specific Station Icon for ads. Example: Our Station Logo with "some words from our sponsors" or "we will return in 2 minutes with some ...
Suggested by: Will (26 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 01 Jun Comments: 60
Under consideration Ads UI/UX
390 votes

listeners can Like/Love songs

Listeners via mobile or web can like the current track playing, broadcasters receive stats/metrics on what tracks are liked. Listeners can like songs on the ...
Suggested by: Dj Rage (30 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 02 Jun Comments: 27
305 votes

Listening to own station does not count against TLH

Broadcasters should be permitted to listen (monitor) to their stream on a private link that does not count against the TLH. I monitor my steam very frequently for ...
Suggested by: Dan Binder (10 Nov, '20) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 19
Under consideration Reporting and Analytics
288 votes

Request/Contact DJ

Ability for listeners via Mobile app or Webpage to click a button and send a quick message/request to station. This message can be sent to the stations email. Add ...
Suggested by: Wes Hendrix (20 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 19 May Comments: 48
258 votes

More Cross-Fade Control

Some have suggested cross-fading during playlists and I know cross is an option now, however the following would be suggested: 1. Intersect the cross at a ...
Suggested by: Rich (25 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 30 May Comments: 30
245 votes

AutoDJ: Queue up songs in real time, take requests

I would like to see the Auto DJ have a playlist area where you can drop a random song in. For example: I get a Facebook message from a listener who wants to hear ...
Suggested by: The1Essence Radio (11 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 30 May Comments: 36
234 votes

Easier Events Scheduling

To be able to edit a scheduled event without having to delete the event and re-enter the info. ability to stop an event in progress and delete it/reprogram it. ...
Suggested by: Thomas Farley (25 Jun, '21) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 127
226 votes

Top of hour function - News Feed, Weather, ID's, station updates

I would like to see a feature where all we have to do is provide a newsfeed URL and Live365 automatically inserts it and plays the news every hour at the top of the ...
Suggested by: Jim Clark (07 Apr, '20) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 38
202 votes

Directory Improvements

There are several improvements we are looking to make for the Directory to help better drive traffic to our many unique stations. We'll collect general feedback here. ...
Suggested by: Philip (14 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 24 May Comments: 139
181 votes

Rotation/Separation Logic Options

An option that would allow you to select rotation logic for the playlist/clockwheels. Specifically by "Least recently played". in conjunction with the ability to ...
Suggested by: Rich (20 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 19 May Comments: 33
180 votes

Social Media Sharing & Integrations

It would be super nice if the content providers on Live 365 were able to allow their users to share their listening experience with friends on social media. ...
Suggested by: Rocky Bucano (15 Sep, '18) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 52
127 votes

Notifications to Listeners and Broadcasters during service issues or Outages

When a station is down due to a home internet issue OR a Live365 issue (like mine in now); how about having an automated message on the player web page saying that ...
Suggested by: Jay Goldberg (09 Nov, '18) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 29
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
123 votes

Better Error Handling / Helpful Errors & Notifications

Mistakes happen. Sometimes a music track inadvertently gets assigned as Talk or other kind of media type and if scheduled as an Event can cause issues with the Event ...
Suggested by: Christine Bush (01 Jul, '24) Upvoted: 19 May Comments: 29
Under consideration UI/UX
121 votes

Opening Greeting When Stream is Accessed

When listeners first connect it would be nice to have a station greeting/announcement that could maybe be pulled as an ID? Essentially, give Broadcasters the ...
Suggested by: John Mouw (30 Jan, '19) Upvoted: 27 May Comments: 11
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
120 votes

"weighting" a track in AutoDj

i'd like to be able to tag the media as something like: low rotation; medium rotation; high rotation. the end goal would be i want a "classic" rock song not played so ...
Suggested by: jerry (20 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 27 Apr Comments: 25
Under consideration ClockWheel Tutorials
113 votes

Playlist - Batch edit multiple tracks at once (add or delete) & allow to edit Album Art in bulk

Updated 2-26-25 to clarify that this Request is two parts - 1. Allow to bulk edit Album Art in batch on the Tracks page. All other elements can be bulk edited ...
Suggested by: Jaymie Bowles (07 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 68
108 votes

Gap Killer / Silence Detection

Will Live365 be incorporating a "Gap Killer" anytime soon... those couple seconds of dead air can really hurt a station's listening viewer count as listeners may log ...
Suggested by: Mixx 716 (28 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 May Comments: 28
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
105 votes

Copy/duplicate playlist

being able to make a copy of a playlist so that it can be edited into a different program with similar material
Suggested by: Bogdan (26 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 19 May Comments: 30
Under consideration Playlists UI/UX
104 votes

Publish the stations "Upcoming Schedule" on the Live365 Directory profile page

A fantastic feature would be a daily or weekly schedule for listeners to see when their favorite DJ or special scheduled events were coming up. If this was posted to ...
Suggested by: David Craven (22 Feb, '19) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 34
Under consideration Directory/Listeners
100 votes

Premium Option for Station Listing

This was brought up for years at the old Live365 especially in the old forums. A premium listing option for the top position in the genre page and /or station page ...
Suggested by: Rich (25 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 22 Feb Comments: 19
99 votes

Ability to "Kick" Live DJ streams, manage encoder password.

Broadcaster's that have remote DJ doing shows request the ability to remotely stop the stream if the remote DJ forgets to turn off the encoder or run over their ...
Suggested by: Adam (16 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 12 May Comments: 33
97 votes

Licensing coverage country/region requests

Any possibility of Live 365 extending audience reach, to places like France, Spain, Switzerland? Would it create a problem? If not, please give it some thought. ...
Suggested by: Lindsey Alexander (Mr.) (28 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 12 May Comments: 22
Planned Licensing
95 votes

Sonos Integration

I would like to see integration with Sonos so that I can listen to my fav stations on Live365 via my Sonos system.
Suggested by: Tim (27 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 11
88 votes

Customized widget

Either the ability to customize the size of the now playing widget or have additional sizes available. As some websites have set sizes for different things, and with ...
Suggested by: Mark Phire (26 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 12 May Comments: 42
79 votes

Enable API for broadcaster external use

I would like the ability to fetch "current song" title to enable the ability to discuss or add fun factoids about the track at a glance on my website
Suggested by: Lance (22 Apr, '19) Upvoted: 04 May Comments: 19
Under consideration Widgets and Players
75 votes

Paid listener/listener subscription

Some current listeners and broadcasters have requested that we bring back this feature of the old Live365. Listeners who pay might have an ad free experience, hear ...
Suggested by: Brian (15 Dec, '18) Upvoted: 29 May Comments: 29
Under consideration Directory/Listeners
73 votes

Chromecast, Google Cast, or Android TV Integration

It would be great to be able to push Live365 streams, to chromecast or android devices that support Google Cast. https://developers.google.com/cast/
Suggested by: Roger (02 Nov, '18) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 19
Under consideration Integrations
71 votes

Copy/Duplicate/Save As for ClockWheel templates

Ability to duplicate a ClockWheel instead of having to recreate it.
Suggested by: Philip (26 Dec, '18) Upvoted: 20 Apr Comments: 38
Under consideration ClockWheel UI/UX
71 votes

ClockWheel advance tools

Thanks for the introduction of the Clockwheel; it added some important control on AutoDJ. However, I will like to see some more advance features added to creating ...
Suggested by: David G Lawrence (17 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 31
Under consideration ClockWheel
60 votes

Option to "Kick" off listener "immediately"

There are times when listeners mistakenly tune in two or three times with different tabs on their browsers, tune in with different devices, or with suspicious but ...
Suggested by: Jose (03 Sep, '20) Upvoted: 11 May Comments: 12
56 votes

Schedule rotation of Station ID's

I'd like to do two things: 1. evenly rotate ID's (sometimes the same one plays a few times in a row) 2. Schedule the same ID (or a sequence to play at a fixed ...
Suggested by: jim (07 Dec, '18) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 12
53 votes

Replace/overwrite existing files on upload

Make it possible to overwrite existing files.
Suggested by: Tyrone K Sullivan (09 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 26
53 votes

more options to customized station page.

I would like to see more options to customized station page. the option of having background images or layout options and color scheme.
Suggested by: Chris From Rockade Radio (04 May, '19) Upvoted: today Comments: 5
51 votes

AutoDJ Separation Rules

Increase the maximum duration for separation rules from the current 240 minutes in AutoDJ.
Suggested by: Leonard Mancini (16 Sep, '18) Upvoted: 14 Apr Comments: 21
49 votes

Cue points and markers for customizing track start, stop, and crossfade

A track editor view which lets you place cue points and markers along the duration of an audio file. The cue points control where the track starts and stops playing. ...
Suggested by: Philip (18 Aug, '25) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 22
48 votes

Scheduled stream relays

Have we considered an option to schedule a relay stream? Say for example you have your normal auto dj stream that plays out the songs in your library, but maybe you ...
Suggested by: Cameron Fletcher (13 May, '19) Upvoted: 22 Jan Comments: 27
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
48 votes

Hide the hashed IP's

The hashed IP's serve a very limited purpose. We'd like to see State and Country information. Maybe abbreviate the IP's to 5 characters or hide them and make them ...
Suggested by: Chris Johnson/BlueRootsRadio (20 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan Comments: 6
48 votes

AutoDJ - Scheduling multiple clockwheels for AutoDJ

Currently, we can only schedule 1 clockwheel to be used for AutoDJ. Although we can prepare multiple clockwheels to be used, this does require changing the clockwheel ...
Suggested by: Kay Cook-Abbott (17 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 26 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration AutoDJ ClockWheel
43 votes

Diversifying the Ad Trigger Files and Adding Regional Capability for UK and Spanish Stations

We would like to listen to new and betters audio ads. the Ad council PSA's are getting old and overplayed. It's about time Live365 need to consider diversifying your ...
Suggested by: Chris From Rockade Radio (06 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 29 May Comments: 13
Planned Ads
41 votes

Block metadata for Ads, IDs, Sweepers etc.

It would be great if there were a way to filter or block certain metadata from being sent to the player/app as well as the recently played list. I happen to run ...
Suggested by: Dan (04 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 04 Apr Comments: 15
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
40 votes

Virtual Machine - StationPlaylist - Remote Voice Tracking

The current version of StationPlaylist Remote VT, included with StationPlaylist Pro on the Virtual Machine, is limited to five users. We would like to be able to ...
Suggested by: Romane (07 Aug, '25) Upvoted: 24 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration Virtual Machine
39 votes

Ability to import M3U playlists

The ability to upload M3U playlists in the Playlist section of the dashboard.
Suggested by: Bogdan (17 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 02 Mar Comments: 3
38 votes

Adding a live chat room to the Live365 profile page

By integrating this into the stations. We can have better interaction with our listeners. Especially if we want to diversify the stations by doing talk shows. Being ...
Suggested by: DJ Elementz (01 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 14
37 votes

Music Library / Pre-Loaded Content

A library of music that broadcasters can use on their stations. Preferably major label tracks, but anything would be great. Maybe include an example templates ...
Suggested by: Jason Stoddard (03 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 10
37 votes

Multi-station Custom App

For those who operate more than one Live365 station, a mobile app that supports multiple commonly owned stations would be welcome. This can be easily done with ...
Suggested by: Bill Bro (14 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 28 May Comments: 3
Under consideration Branded Single Station App
34 votes

FTP uploads

It would be nice to upload media files via FTP using an FTP client such as Filezilla or Cyberduck
Suggested by: Kevin Askew (01 Nov, '21) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 11
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
32 votes

autodj preview of "next song"

would be great if on my dashboard under what *is* playing i can see what is coming up from autodj. perhaps set a queue of 3-5 songs that autodj has and at any given ...
Suggested by: jerry (20 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 08 Feb Comments: 9
Under consideration AutoDJ Education UI/UX
30 votes

Provide Sort/filter option to find tracks without Category assigned.

Please provide a filter in the media library to show which tracks have no category assigned.
Suggested by: James Yokers (21 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 16 Apr Comments: 16
Under consideration Media Management UI/UX