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.
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
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 ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Add a favorite station tab to the Live365 Smart TV and Carplay apps
A favorite tab needs to be added to the new Live365 Roku app so listeners can retrieve stations they like listening to without the need to search for them every time ...
Under consideration
Directory/Listeners
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
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
Realtime Analytics - ability to set table view by default
Some broadcasters prefer to see the table view by default. They enjoy the map view but would prefer if they could toggle a setting so the table view shows up ...
Completely customizable player
Being a front end developer, the way the embeddable player sits on a a site has to be perfect for me and one thing I see missing is the customisation of the player is ...
Under consideration
Widgets and Players
Show A Separate Number of First time Lisenters, Apart from the Number of Repeat Listeners.
The Computer can be the only thing that reads a listener's IP Address. We just see the count of first time Listeners, along with a list of repeat Listeners.
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
iHeartRadio Add-on
I think it would be cool to see an add-on for iHeartRadio to get listed as you are currently offering with TuneIn.
Under consideration
Default artwork for songs without artwork
How about using the station's logo picture as album artwork for songs without artwork where the search for artwork doesn't result in any. This would at least help ...
Under consideration
AD-Free Radio Weekends
Maybe Live365 should look into this for their broadcast stations.
(Commercial Free Weekends)
Under consideration
Ads
Create a broadcast portal or community for selling airtime space
Is there an opportunity for online broadcasters to sell 30-60 minute radio airtime blocks if there are people or podcasters who have interesting content for radio ...
Under consideration
Station Contests
The old Live365 used to do a Holiday E-Card Campaign where listeners could send an e-card to their friends, relatives, etc. through Live365. The e-card would be ...
Under consideration
Ability to add playlists to clockwheels
It would be awesome to be able to add playlists to clockwheels, giving us the ability to move blocks instead of individual pieces.
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Add more control of Genres settings
At the least the following Genres should be added: Holiday, Easy Listening, Rock, Blues. THE ONLY WAY to get listed under MAJOR HEADINGS now is through what I call ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Edit multiple tracks in sequence improvement
Editing a track for artwork, metadata, etc brings you back to the top of the page when you hit Save. As you usually edit tracks in sequence, it'd be good if it stayed ...
Done
Display Most-Listened To Stations First, Within Their Respective Genre Listings
Let's reward the stations that are attracting the most listeners by showing them first within their respecitve genre listings. Something the 'old' Live365 used to ...
Under consideration
Directory/Listeners
Implement clicking on a time slot in the Scheduler to create a new event
The new dashboard does not allow clicking on a time slot to the new events creation window. This previous version of the Dashboard made programming easier than the ...
Under consideration
UI/UX
Dynamic genres
With only 5 genres, some stations are at a disadvantage if they play more than 5 genres. we consistently change genres, while different shows play (that play ...
Under consideration
Convert ClockWheel generated track lists into saved playlists
Scheduling long playlist shows takes time. I love clockwheels but sometimes, by random, certain songs keep showing up and others do not. I would love to generate a ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Bulk add tracks to Playlist after filtering
the ability to either add a whole category to a playlist, as this will help with compliance. if this is not possible the alternative if that when adding tracks to a ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Simplified, Station-specific URLs
This is maybe a headache to do, but simplification of station URLs to something like "http://live365.com/__[station name]__ would be a valuable tool for publicizing ...
Under consideration
Directory/Listeners
A second test station for training
I have been an owner for over 10 years and I have always had two encoders. This is the first time I have not had a second encoder to use for training new DJ's on. It ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Piechart representation of clockwheels
Ability to see a piechart representation of the clockwheel, to get a nice overview of the percentages that each item/category gets.
Might be very useful to see it ...
Under consideration
Bandcamp "Buy Now" (or Custom Buy Link)
It would be great to include Bandcamp when a listener clicks on "Buy Now". That's where a lot of bands now sell their music. Or a custom "buy now" link that I can ...
Under consideration
Directory/Listeners
Replace current track with a different version of it
It would be useful if we could replace the current tracks in our library with others with the same ID tags, without having to delete them and re-upload.
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Playlist Logs
Provide public playlist logs for all the "live" shows on your station.
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Request to be able to DL the current media library
At this time a broadcaster can re-download their files one at a time.
A few reports have come in with broadcasters asking if they can download their whole library. ...
Under consideration
Image Cropping for Logo
Image cropping at the time of upload, during both the on-boarding and Station Profile management processes
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Sorting by duration & category
To sort by duration & category & to see how many times a particular track has been played
Under consideration
Ability to rearrange categories
IT would be nice to go into categories listings and rearrange so it appears in the order that I would prefer.
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
station calendar to spotlight specials or shows
a weekly calendar at least, that broadcasters can display special shows or regular shows.
Under consideration
Track or Artist details
Lyrics, info about the artist
Here's an example: http://www.invubu.com/radio/solidrockorg/playing.html
Under consideration
Ability to delete dashboard notifications
Broadcasters should have the ability to remove the dashboard notifications present under the bell icon.
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
Pay invoice with PayPal
To be able to pay invoice with Paypal. This makes things easier for the broadcasters in case of CC change they only have to change it in one place and is also more ...
Planned
Billing
DMCA compliance tool for making playlists
It would be helpful to add an APP to our host platform to confirm the playlist conforms with DMCA compliance while building a playlist before attempting to add the ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters
QR codes for mobile app
Two versions desired. Version 1 would be a dynamic link that would recognize mobile phone type and send to appropriate app store. Version 2 would also include station ...
Under consideration
Mobile App
Don't "catch up" ID files after scheduled event plays
As the system currently stands, IDs get queued up when a playlist or clockwheel is played. For instance, I have the "play Station ID" setting at 4 per hour (so, ...
Planned
Tools for Broadcasters
Allow pre-roll on pop up player for those on ad free programs, allowing us to insert an ad.
Would allow a pre-roll ad to play prior to the stream starting. Allow ad free programs to sell ad positions by percentage of rotation of play in pre-roll ad player. ...
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 ...
Under consideration
Directory/Listeners
Live Video Stream Broadcast
There are a lot of artists not able to do concerts and "be seen" except for live streaming on social media. Maybe an added cost, but having concerts livestreaming on ...
Under consideration
Voice Tracking on Web
I would like to request a feature that allows DJs can record voice tracks directly from the Live365 Dashboard and add them to a playlist. It would be cool to see this ...
Not planned
Tools for Broadcasters
Sort Columns in Historical analytics screens
Broadcasters want to be able to sort by TLH, Sessions, Country. By default, it sorts by Platform and alphabetically. It would be more useful if the columns could be ...
Under consideration
Reporting and Analytics
Comments section
A place where you can add a sentence or two about the music that will show up on the broadcast screen under the artist name which will give the listener an ...
Under consideration
Autoplay function for the embedded player
Having the autoplay function for the embedded player would be cool!
Under consideration
Widgets and Players
Add Buy Links To The Live 365 Mobile App
The mobile app does not show the buy links for each song played like the website players do? Why is this? I'd like to request this feature be added.
Done
Mobile App
Dynamically update Scheduled Events In Real Time
It would be nice if you could update a scheduled event in the calendar without it being linked to previous events. As it stands, when you try to update the time of a ...
Under consideration
Tools for Broadcasters