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 in this channel and be sure to vote on the ones that are most important to you. The features that get the most votes will become priorities for our development team during the next sprint.
Offset volume control for ads
An offset volume control, that passes the user's volume preference to the ads server would be useful.
DJ's will then have the option to play ads either over, ...
Under consideration
Insert remote “live” recorded shout-outs
The previous incarnation of live 365 had a mobile app which would allow a short (max 90 seconds) on-scene recording to be played into the stream between scheduled ...
Under consideration
Mobile App
Editing Events without Deleting Event
To be able to edit a scheduled event without having to delete the event and re-enter the info.
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Reintroduce the API for statistics relay
I would like to see Live365 re-implementing an API to enable broadcasters to obtain the amount of currently active listeners on the new dashboard.
Background: ...
Under consideration
Broadcaster Server Controls
Controls on the Broadcaster admin that allows me to turn off/on and reset my streaming server. This could help clear up nagging issues, disconnect unwanted listeners, ...
Under consideration
Peak Listener Demographics
It would be good to have a report of what peak times are for your station each day. Like if Mondays at 2am you have high listeners etc. It would really help in terms ...
Under consideration
Custom Art work during LiveDJ sets
Ability to enter a jpeg or name of the Guest or organization's Logo during Live Interviews to identify speaker. This would show on the player like the Album Art or ...
Bulk Edit album artwork
The ability of changing a number of tracks to use the same cover photo. Although there is a bulk option for metadata, this didn't include a bulk photo change option.
Under consideration
Media Management
Display "Off Air" stations in separate Directory view
Some stations go off of the air intentionally, but would like to retain their profile page. This way, their community would still be able to see the profile page and ...
Under consideration
Display YEAR metadata in the players
Broadcasters want to share the year that a track was released with their listeners. Since we have the Year ID3 metadata tag available for each uploaded track, we ...
Under consideration
Report differentiating between Unique/Repeat listeners
Please consider adding the total number of unique listeners (based on different ip address) over a given time frame. Currently the historical reports appear to only ...
Under consideration
Reporting and Analytics
Live 365 x box app
Under consideration
Ability to listen to your playlist in full before adding to schedule
Would like to see the option to preview your playlist in full before adding it to the schedule to make sure all levels and transitions are at same volume levels and ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Ability to move and copy scheduled events on Scheduler
It would be great to have the ability to cut and paste a playlist into a time slot instead of having to manually schedule it. For example, I have a show that plays ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
LIve365 inclusion to bdsradio.com
Several broadcasters have requested to have LIve365 report to https://www.bdsradio.com so their music selection can be recorded and counted in Nielsen and Billboard ...
Under consideration
Deleting ongoing events
I would like to be able to delete an event while it is playing and be able to go off air with one click of the button
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Flexibility in adding tracks to middle of playlist
Add tracks in the middle of a playlist rather than it always coming at the end. Being able to add a track where the cursor is rather than the new add always showing ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Diversifying the ads
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 ...
Under consideration
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 ...
Under consideration
Offer optional add on for broadcasters to charge "members" for subscriptions / private channels / h.
I suggest that you offer optional add on for broadcasters to charge "members" for subscriptions and private channels.
I want to offer a simultaneous "teaser" ...
Under consideration
Shuffle Option in Playlist Editor
The Shuffle Option in the Playlist Editor is missing on the new Live365 Dashboard.
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 ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Built in phone & number to receive live calls from listeners.
I like to interact with my listeners on my station where they can call in and be apart of the show and give their opinions on the topic of the day or request a song ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Support for the TuneIn integration
Please consider adding support for the TuneIn API. by sending playlist information to TuneIn in real-time: https://tunein.com/broadcasters/api/
With this ...
Under consideration
Integrations
Additional Online Drive Space
I would be a nice to be able to add more online drive space, in 5GB to 10GB increments, to my account without going to the next higher service package.
Match event duration to length of playlist
I know this would require some serious programming but it would be really helpful if, when I "Create A New Event" to add to the schedule, the Total Running Time (TRT) ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Limit Listeners
I'd like to have it where I can set a limit on how many can be tuned in at the same time. The limit would be able to be set by the broadcaster. For example, if I ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Live365 royalties badge
Logo adjust to reflect "Music Royalties paid by Live365" that can be embedded on our website and our social media.
Under consideration
Licensing
Ability to breakdown listeners by when they are logged on
I would like to be able to track users for a specific block of time: who listened, where they were from, etc.
Under consideration
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 ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Ability to Stop a Show Already in Progress
Currently when a show starts there is no way to stop. If it doesn't start correctly or if there is breaking news and you want change what is on air you have to wait ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Integration for metadata from Spinitron.com
Implement per-stream option to allow metadata from addresses that reverse look up to to a name in spinitron.com in order for the users to be able to use Spinitron as ...
Under consideration
Alphabetized Category Lists
I keep an extensive category list and there is no way to sort the category list on the dashboard to show it alphabetically, nor to show in alphabetical order on the ...
Under consideration
Media Management
Overlap tracks without fading in/out
Would like to be able to overlap all tracks manually without fading in and out the volume, so cold-start songs with no intro don't fade in, but fire at full volume. ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
YouTube Videos for Setting up Clockwheels etc..
I am looking at 3 different documents from Live365. They are confusing and after several attempts, I still have not gotten to work.
Planned
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.
Under consideration
Media Management
Ability to Show Artwork for Individual Shows on Your Station
We are in the process of launching a new station that will include a mix of shows - we would like to be able to upload artwork for the individual shows in addition to ...
Under consideration
To be able to upload wav files & other formats in Live365
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Sync ClockWheel queue to top of hour so ID's are played at the expected time
...[A] big one for me is having the ability to clear the queue when a new clock launches at the top of the hour or the bottom of the hour, or whenever a new clock ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
The ability to shuffle play when in playlist mode
Currently when you make a playlist it plays into order the ability to alto shuffle would be great
Under consideration
Sort Tracks by Length of track
Broadcasters indicate this can be helpful in making playlists if they can sort by time to get precise playlist lengths.
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Pre-roll capability for each new listener
Ability to select an audio files that plays every time a listener connects to the stream, before connecting them to the actual audio feed
Under consideration
Insert 1 track on the fly
ability to insert 1 track during an AutoDJ or playlist session. This could be to customize the stream for listener requests, or perhaps just as a way to allow the DJ ...
Under consideration
Relay fallback suggestion
2 to 3 times a day the current relay feature drops and the Live365 autoDJ takes over. Live365 support are saying the error logs indicate the relay software thinks it ...
Under consideration
Add "Seconds" to duration in Schedule Events
I would like to play a Station ID / Jingle at the Top of Every hour which is possible to schedule however, I can only schedule the event in minutes and hours so it ...
Under consideration
Fetch Cover / Album art from a priority list (for live broadcasts as well)
Users should be able to create a priority list for where they would like covers to be fetched from.
For example, no 1 priority could be the one embedded in the ...
Under consideration
Cover Art Auto Fill
Cover art to be auto filled when you upload a track. Old Live365 had this - grabbing the art from itunes/Amazon or something like that. It would also look better if ...
Under consideration