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.

Last played widget

This would allow their listeners who are visiting the website to see a list of the last played tracks on the station before tuning in. The goal is to show what type ...
Suggested by: Bogdan (26 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 08 Jul, '24 Comments: 19

Embedded player for Broadcasters website.

We occasionally get this request. Although I understand that it is mainly a licensing issue for the website that desires an embedded player - we have had broadcasters ...
Suggested by: Adam (25 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 28 Jul, '24 Comments: 21

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: 11 Oct, '24 Comments: 30

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: 08 Jan Comments: 11
Under consideration Widgets and Players

Making the new Live365 embeddable players mobile responsive

We'd like to have the Live365 embeddable players responsive for the mobile screen resolutions and automatically adjust their sizes.
Suggested by: Ionut Sarghi (12 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 19 Nov, '24 Comments: 3
Under consideration UI/UX Widgets and Players

Option to set the number of songs displayed in Last Played widget

A setting to where we can tell the widget how many Last Played songs to display. For example, 15 songs typically represents an hour of music for most genres. ...
Suggested by: Don Buettner (02 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 23 Oct, '24 Comments: 9
Under consideration Widgets and Players

Autoplay function for the embedded player

Having the autoplay function for the embedded player would be cool!
Suggested by: chad (04 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 17 Nov, '24 Comments: 3
Under consideration Widgets and Players

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 ...
Suggested by: Philip (09 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 04 Apr, '22 Comments: 5
Under consideration Widgets and Players

Post-roll Message at end of session duration limit

when the maximum session time is reached, the listener hears a pleasant message instead of silence. This way, they know it's not a technical problem. The message ...
Suggested by: Bogdan (26 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 04 Oct, '23 Comments: 6

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

Widgets for downloading the Live365 apps

Per title, a widget that broadcasters could add on their web site where their listeners can download the iOS or Android official Live365 apps
Suggested by: Bogdan (12 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 05 Jun, '24 Comments: 1

Branded Single Station mobile app - White Labeling

I would like to remove the ( POWERED BY LIVE365 ) on my custom mobile App... I would like to Replace it with either ( PARTNERS WITH LIVE365 ) or ( RADIO SOCIAL MEDIA ...
Suggested by: Litho Nericcio (22 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 19 Nov, '24 Comments: 0

Create downloadable Desktop Player for instant listening

Something I remember using from the early '00s, not just with Live365 but also at the long-defunct Spinner.com - a small player interface that you could download and ...
Suggested by: AmanogawaExpress (06 Nov, '20) Upvoted: 25 Jun, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Widgets and Players

Adding "sticky" embeddable player

I think it would be awesome to give users a sticky footer option for the the embeddable player. Basically the goal would be, while you scroll the player follows the ...
Suggested by: Kevin (03 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 25 Mar, '24 Comments: 1
Under consideration Widgets and Players

Real time music visualization on the Live365 player

How about putting in a real music visualization on your home page.
Suggested by: Rich (15 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 25 Oct, '24 Comments: 0
Under consideration Widgets and Players

Custom widget as put together for our web directory.

Live365 uses a custom embed widget in their web directory when a station is played. This appears as a bottom footer with an ability to play and watch current music ...
Suggested by: Chris Lindsey (29 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 31 Aug, '21 Comments: 2
Under consideration Widgets and Players

Play counter on widget

Add a play counter on the audio widget that shows how many listeners have accessed the widget.
Suggested by: William Dennis (29 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 08 Aug, '21 Comments: 2
Under consideration Widgets and Players

Affiliate "buy now" links - Shopify and others

I've seen requests for adding affiliate links from Apple, Amazon, etc. I've also seen requests for allowing Bandcamp links. I would like to suggest that a user of the ...
Suggested by: Adam Zelinka (20 Sep, '23) Upvoted: 27 May, '24 Comments: 1