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.

Rotation/Separation Logic Options

An option that would allow you to select rotation logic for the playlist. Specifically by "Least recently played". in conjunction with the ability to adjust ...
Suggested by: Rich (20 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 15 Nov, '24 Comments: 26
Planned Playlists

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: 01 Jan Comments: 25
Under consideration Playlists UI/UX

Drag and drop from library to playlist

It's already possible to drag and drop tracks within the playlist itself, but it is not possible to drag a track from your library and drop it exactly where you want ...
Suggested by: Bogdan (26 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 15 Nov, '24 Comments: 2
Done Playlists

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: 30 Dec, '23 Comments: 3
Under consideration Playlists Tools for Broadcasters

Sort Playlists in Event Editor

We work with over 300 playlists and not seeing them alphabetized when creating a new event.
Suggested by: Dan (10 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 15 Apr, '24 Comments: 16
Under consideration Playlists UI/UX

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 ...
Suggested by: Justin (23 Feb, '19) Upvoted: 01 Jan Comments: 2
Under consideration Playlists Tools for Broadcasters

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) ...
Suggested by: Michael Serio (03 Apr, '20) Upvoted: 31 Aug, '21 Comments: 7

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
Suggested by: Global-X Radio (27 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 15 Nov, '24 Comments: 3
Done Playlists

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. This sorting by time would only apply to the ...
Suggested by: Adam (16 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 02 Apr, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration Playlists Tools for Broadcasters

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 ...
Suggested by: Jay Goldberg (06 Apr, '19) Upvoted: 09 Jan, '24 Comments: 6

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 Playlists

Automatically save playlists while building or editing

It's really easy to navigate away from the Playlist editor screen before clicking the Save button.
Suggested by: Philip (15 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 0
Under consideration Playlists

Playlist Time Length

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 Playlists Tools for Broadcasters

Build a Playlist From The Results Of a Clockwheel

Would like to create a playlist from the successful results of a clockwheel. At present I'm trying to build a Christmas day playlist of just XMAS rock music & ...
Suggested by: Progressive Rock AZUSA (18 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 22 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration ClockWheel Playlists

Sort library tracks by upload date in playlist editor

We would like to be able to sort the tracks from the playlist editor view by upload date. Ideally, they will be sorted out by upload date as a default sorting option.
Suggested by: Ionut Sarghi (21 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 25 Jun, '24 Comments: 1
Under consideration Playlists

Playlist editor - Sort by "Category"

Just wondering if it's a good idea to add a "Category" or "Subject" to playlists, as well as show a playlist total time, for sorting?
Suggested by: Win (10 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 12 Sep, '24 Comments: 2
Under consideration Playlists

While preparing a playlist, it would be nice to be able to sort the list by the year of release.

This would come in handy when preparing a playlist and be able to play the latest music by each artist.
Suggested by: Frank Russell (29 Sep, '24) Upvoted: 26 Oct, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Playlists UI/UX

Ability to fast forward tracks when listening for playlist placement

I would like to be able to fast forward tracks when listening for playlist placement, rather than having to play the whole track throughout.
Suggested by: Anthony (02 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 05 Oct, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Media Management Playlists

Playlists - Ability to edit tracks from the Playlist editor

When viewing a playlist, it's aggravating to need to back out and go to Media → Tracks → Edit track. It would be nice to edit tracks wherever I'm working.
Suggested by: Trina Wilcox (16 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 16 Nov, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Media Management Playlists UI/UX

Mass playlist deletion tool/button

I think that you should add a button or tool so that we can delete playlist more than 1 at a time. I currently have 252 and running out of space,
Suggested by: Sony Hulk Radio (21 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 21 Mar, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Playlists

Playlists - Add a description field for playlists

As a broadcaster, I would like a description field on the playlist form, so I can put explicit details regarding the kinds of music that should be added to the playlist.
Suggested by: DJ Paula P (01 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 01 Jul, '20 Comments: 0
Under consideration Playlists