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.
8 votes

Live365 Weekly radio station ratings report to see who is number 1 currently in listeners

Suggested by: Ricky Bienvenu (12 Feb, '22) • Upvoted: 19 Jan • Comments: 2
Under consideration
8 votes

Add specific color choice to embedded LIve365 player widgets

Love the functionality of the new widgets. I suggest providing an option for each user to add a hexadecimal color preference for the background only, or display a ...
Suggested by: Jim Park (13 Mar, '21) • Upvoted: 20 Apr • Comments: 2
Under consideration Widgets and Players
8 votes

View clockwheel as a graphic

Would be beneficial to see the clockwheel graphically as opposed to a list.
Suggested by: Fred (28 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 05 Oct, '21 • Comments: 2
Under consideration ClockWheel
8 votes

Ability to drag songs between 2 playlists

For example, pull up say "playlist 1" & "playlist 11". I want to drag or click a couple of songs from playlist 11 over to playlist 1 so I can balance out the ...
Suggested by: Scott Burdett (14 Nov, '18) • Upvoted: 13 Jan, '22 • Comments: 2
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
8 votes

Accidentally Deleted Songs

I recently updated and corrected categories, ext for some songs but while doing so I accidentally deleted a song. Because this artist has many songs I play and it ...
Suggested by: John LaBaum (21 Sep, '18) • Upvoted: 02 Apr • Comments: 2
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
8 votes

Longer Separation Duration

More Track separation durations or allow custom input (days, hours, minutes) This would allow higher track libraries to rotate more evenly by extending the "rest ...
Suggested by: Austin Miller (19 Feb, '22) • Upvoted: 21 Jul • Comments: 1
Under consideration
8 votes

Last Played time extend

While (AutoDJ is playing) logged into your dashboard, I wish there was a way to see what was played longer than the timeframe available. It looks like now it only ...
Suggested by: James H Becker (20 Nov, '21) • Upvoted: 23 Jul, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
8 votes

Upcoming Track/QUE and Album Art on Overview Page

The "Upcoming Track" feature has been removed. The next Track Que/ Upcoming Track is more important to me than what "Last Played". Now Playing also important and ...
Suggested by: Mary Alice (09 Jul, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Jan, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
8 votes

Ad-Free Day/Weekend

Upgrade to the ad-free package for only a day or weekend. I think it would be nice if we could offer a ad free weekend to our listeners without permanently upgrading ...
Suggested by: dennis (26 Aug, '19) • Upvoted: 23 Mar, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration Ads Billing Tools for Broadcasters
8 votes

Progressive Tagging Environment

It would be great to have a "Forward/Back" arrow and "Apply" button to use when tagging tracks so that you can tag newly loaded tracks and update information ...
Suggested by: Lee (22 Jul, '18) • Upvoted: 11 Feb, '19 • Comments: 1
Under consideration
8 votes

Featured "New Stations" category on the website

Add an area on the LIVE365 webpage that introduces new stations or stations that may need a boost.
Suggested by: James H Becker (22 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 30 Dec, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration Directory/Listeners
8 votes

Statistic Relays For Sam Broadcaster Pro

Please consider the capability to add Live365 Statistic Relay
Suggested by: Jeff Moses (25 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 05 Nov, '22 • Comments: 0
Done Reporting and Analytics
8 votes

2FA Two-Factor Authentication for Broadcaster dashboard

Please add 2FA Two-Factor Authentication such as 'Authy' or 'Google Authenticator' to add an extra level of security to our stations.
Suggested by: Alex (25 Sep, '19) • Upvoted: 17 Apr • Comments: 0
Planned Tools for Broadcasters
8 votes

Listener's genre information

It would be great to be able to see what genre the listener used to reach the station.
Suggested by: David Gildea (19 Sep, '19) • Upvoted: 26 Jul, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration Reporting and Analytics
8 votes

Blackout Tool with Specific radius

When we carry sports on our radio station, we have to either limit our stream to a specific radius or not carry the sports online at all due to limited broadcast ...
Suggested by: Chuck Taylor (20 Aug, '19) • Upvoted: 15 Aug • Comments: 0
Under consideration
8 votes

Copy/Paste Clockwheel Elements

I have several three-hour blocks of AutoDJ'd music and I'd like to be able to copy and paste several tracks in a row so that I don't have to manually repeat it.
Suggested by: Jelani Greenidge (07 May, '19) • Upvoted: 14 Dec, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
7 votes

Detect tracks by acoustic fingerprinting

We, unfortunately, have duplicate songs uploaded. The songs have the same file name but if the metadata varies slightly the duplicate file will be allowed in the ...
Suggested by: Deus Entertainment (30 Apr, '21) • Upvoted: 06 Jun, '22 • Comments: 9
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
7 votes

Accessibility - Screen reader compatibility

It would be nice and hopeful, if you can improve the platform with more accessibility features we use two different screen readers, and within the combo boxes of the ...
Suggested by: Luis M Nunez jr (04 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 20 Apr • Comments: 4
Planned UI/UX
7 votes

Enterprise-level Analytics available ala-carte

I would really like to see Enterprise-level Analytics available to all packages, but for an extra fee for the lower tier packages. For instance, I'm on Broadcast 2. ...
Suggested by: Jeff DeBoer (31 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 26 May • Comments: 3
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
7 votes

Display Album field in players

When we upload audio to the library we are required to include the album name. However, although this is no doubt used for royalty tracking, it is not visible to ...
Suggested by: Richard E (15 Jan, '21) • Upvoted: 15 Aug, '22 • Comments: 3
Under consideration Widgets and Players
7 votes

Local Weather & Alerts

A program designed much like Cirrus Weather, it pulls in local weather and weather watches and warnings for the area, and gives periodical updates each hour in voice ...
Suggested by: Jeff Tackett (06 Jan) • Upvoted: 08 Sep • Comments: 2
Not planned
7 votes

Referral/Affiliate Program

We know that Live365 loves referrals so, why not an Affiliate Program for broadcasters? If the company already has one, how do we sign-up?
Suggested by: Randy Parker, PD (08 Aug, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Feb • Comments: 2
Under consideration Billing
7 votes

Inserting Tracks into anywhere in a Playlist

It would be awesome to have the ability to insert tracks into the middle of a playlist, and not the bottom, would be super helpful!
Suggested by: Chris Jones (09 Jul, '19) • Upvoted: 27 Nov, '21 • Comments: 2
Done Tools for Broadcasters
7 votes

Pre and/or post track add ons

The ability to attach an audio file before or after a specific track so that each time the track plays the pre and/or post audio file plays to. For example: you ...
Suggested by: John C (30 Aug, '19) • Upvoted: 08 Dec, '20 • Comments: 1
Under consideration
7 votes

Add-on Small increase in TLH

I would like to see a little bit of a increase in TLH in the future. not a huge increase but a small and reasonable increase for broadcaster plans 1 and 2. nothing ...
Suggested by: Chris From Rockade Radio (29 Jun, '19) • Upvoted: 26 Jul, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration
7 votes

Automatically add Ads to playlists

Make it so playlists have ads automatically added to it, instead of having to go through the whole list and add them to it.
Suggested by: Mart (20 Aug, '18) • Upvoted: 24 Aug, '21 • Comments: 1
Under consideration
7 votes

Per LiveDJ sessions and Scheduled events statistics

It would be useful if broadcasters had a statistics panel within each scheduled event. Another tab like the tracklist, that showed a statistics report for that ...
Suggested by: Austin Miller (16 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 26 Jan, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration
7 votes

Playlist Functions

When making a playlist should be able to move an item from search list to playlist by sliding over with cursor where u want it. Should be able to move it right across ...
Suggested by: DERRICK MAXWELL (06 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 08 Jan, '22 • Comments: 0
Done Media Management
7 votes

Publish each station's streaming url

It would be great if you were publish each station's streaming URL on the 365 site. I have all my radio stations in JRiver Media as it allow the user to open a url ...
Suggested by: Howard Olsen (03 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 12 Jan • Comments: 0
Not planned
7 votes

Sort

Algebraic library sorting system like many data bases It would also help when editing out bade data in the metadata section.
Suggested by: Ben Brown (02 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 22 Sep, '21 • Comments: 0
Done
6 votes

Ability to "rest" or "do not play" tracks in a playlist

MEDIA / TRACKS / 'ACTIONS'... DROP DOWN MENU APPEARS...edit/delete. 'file/store playlist....Which should be a new addition! Click on 'file/store playlist The ...
Suggested by: Lindsey Alexander (Mr.) (17 Oct, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Dec, '21 • Comments: 6
Under consideration Media Management
6 votes

Favorite Station Tracking

Create a way to see how many people have favorited your station.
Suggested by: Jaymie Bowles (07 Aug, '18) • Upvoted: 15 Jul, '22 • Comments: 5
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
6 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 Aug • Comments: 4
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
6 votes

Relay external Streams

The format of my station is primarily music, but I do feature some talk programming as well. Of course, all these are pre-recorded, uploaded audio tracks. However, ...
Suggested by: John (03 Aug, '18) • Upvoted: 06 May • Comments: 4
Done Tools for Broadcasters
6 votes

Display estimated run time on the ClockWheel editor

I would like to see an accumulative time on the ClockWheel when trying to assemble a show.
Suggested by: Larry King (08 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 07 Jun, '22 • Comments: 2
Under consideration ClockWheel
6 votes

Add automation capabilities to the Live365 encoder

Add an interface for the Live365 encoder where a person can do live shows or music programming. Also, have an encoder to connect to the cloud system so you can play ...
Suggested by: Garrick (03 Oct, '22) • Upvoted: 30 Jan • Comments: 1
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
6 votes

Allow the scheduler to "force" a disconnect from a "live" source.

We operate a licensed FM station and use Live365 to extend the range of our station. The issue we are having is that some of our programming such as produced music ...
Suggested by: John Mouw (23 Sep, '19) • Upvoted: 14 Sep, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
6 votes

Generic images on player pages

The page that gets opened before the pop-out player ( http://player.live365.com/a39578) has a generic rock concert image. We would like to have the same background ...
Suggested by: Stefanie Lubkowski (22 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 08 Feb, '20 • Comments: 1
Under consideration Directory/Listeners
6 votes

Directory - Show Pages

Many of the stations have shows, that air at a certain time, and/or may air different genre music. An ability to have a show page, within or on the station page would ...
Suggested by: Wes Hendrix (20 Jul, '18) • Upvoted: 23 Mar, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration
6 votes

Provide a paid suspension option for holding station's information

Allow a station to suspend for a small fee which would allow them to go off air for extended time without risk of losing station information.
Suggested by: Francis (21 Mar) • Upvoted: 24 May • Comments: 0
Under consideration
6 votes

Dynamic Player Generator

The player generator should be able to specify: Dynamic vs. Static > If static, size desired. Display album art YES | NO Background of player the cover art for ...
Suggested by: jerry hayes (01 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 14 Mar, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration
6 votes

AutoDJ picking songs to fit time remaining until the next scheduled event starts

I would like to have the AutoDJ pick songs to end at or as close to as possible the strict start time of a scheduled event instead of cutting a song off.
Suggested by: Jean-Paul Yovanoff (21 Apr, '21) • Upvoted: 02 Apr • Comments: 0
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
6 votes

Folders for Category tags

Having different category tags for each genre can be very helpful, but it also takes up a lot of space and it is hard to navigate through all the tags to find a ...
Suggested by: Thaddy Sieverding (11 Mar, '21) • Upvoted: 15 Jan • Comments: 0
Under consideration Media Management
6 votes

Grace Digital

The Grace Digital icon beside the phone apps on the "get-radio" page should really link to Grace's web site.
Suggested by: Scott (11 Aug, '19) • Upvoted: 26 Feb, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration
6 votes

CONSIDER putting the station name on the top of the dashboard. Just in case someone wants to launch

CONSIDER putting the station name on the top of the dashboard. Just in case someone wants to launch multi stations, like us! :)
Suggested by: Gerald Staton (31 Jul, '18) • Upvoted: 24 Aug, '21 • Comments: 0
Under consideration
6 votes

A Real-Time Clock for AutoDJ

It would be great to have an actual clock display of when Auto DJ anticipates playing the next track. This would help when transitioning to Live broadcast. The ...
Suggested by: Lee (22 Jul, '18) • Upvoted: 04 Apr, '22 • Comments: 0
Under consideration UI/UX
6 votes

Playlist Time Length At-A-Glance Visibility

On the main Playlist page add a column showing the time length of each individual saved playlist. Solves the problem of having to click & open each playlist to see ...
Suggested by: Ernie Mitchell (21 Jul, '18) • Upvoted: 09 Sep, '20 • Comments: 0
Under consideration
5 votes

Customizable Overview screen

Broadcasters should have the option of viewing 'LISTENERS NOW' via a 'drop-drown' menu. Not 'in your face' as soon as you enter the new-look dashboard. Sorry, but ...
Suggested by: Lindsey Alexander (Mr.) (17 Oct, '20) • Upvoted: 11 May, '22 • Comments: 7
Under consideration UI/UX
5 votes

Ability to block specific user-agents

I am seeing a lot of FacebookBot user agents connected to my stream, from different places, but banning each IP is rather time-consuming. It would be good to be able ...
Suggested by: Justin Harris (11 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 18 Aug • Comments: 5
Under consideration Tools for Broadcasters
5 votes

Ability to Sync Station At or Near Top of Hour

After a song ends after the top of an hour, the station starts the clockwheel over regardless of location. The first element in the clockwheel then begins to play, ...
Suggested by: Rollie Dethloff (09 May, '22) • Upvoted: 18 May • Comments: 3
Under consideration ClockWheel