CloudFlare is a popular free content delivery network (CDN) designed to take the strain off your web servers by serving visitors your content on your behalf. By doing this, they can provide acceleration services which delivery content faster than a single web server can by itself. Unfortunately CloudFlare’s optimisations can – and frequently do –…
If you’ve just made changes to your station profile using our Station Control Panel, you’re probably wondering why these changes aren’t available immediately. There are a few reasons… Firstly, if you are new to Radioplayer, you may not be live on the platform yet. You’ll need to complete our four-step joining process. However every change…
Because each station hosts their own console, it can be confusing when you need to change the URL of your streams – particularly if you also have mobile streams. This is because, while mobile streams can be altered just by logging in to the Station Control Panel, web console streams can only be changed by…
You should take a moment to test your stream before building a console, or submitting it as a mobile stream to Radioplayer. There are two ways to test that your stream works For the web player: testing with the console generator If you’re building a web console for your website with the Console Generator in…
Introduction Radioplayer primarily uses Flash to play audio on desktop browsers. Flash has restrictions on how playlists work and most of the time the problem you’re experiencing relates to this. Before we delve in, let’s start with the basics First – test the stream in a desktop media player Test your stream in a standalone…
About your station profile Your station profile is the location where we keep important information (metadata) about your station. This metadata is used in many of our systems – and controls everything from how you are listed in search results to how your station is represented in the mobile apps. The more complete it is,…
The Radioplayer pop-up – otherwise known as the Radioplayer Browser Player Console is unique to your station. Radioplayer provides a set of tools which allow you to generate it with the minimum of fuss. Here’s what to do: Login to the Station Control Panel and you’ll see a list of stations you manage. There’s a…
Radioplayer supports a variety of different stream types on our various platforms. Web-based console When playing in Flash, the browser player supports: Shoutcast/Icecast MP3, MP4/M4U streams delivered by HTTP (so long as it can be played in Flash) RTMP streams We accept playlist files too: For HTTP streams: SMIL, ASX, XSPF, PLS, M3U including recursive…
We’re often asked whether we provide a streaming service for stations, alongside our player products. The short answer is no. However because we deal with such a broad range of streaming companies, we’ve found we can offer some advice as stations go about selecting a provider. With that in mind, here are our top tips…
We’re very keen to see all stations make the most of their console. Whether it’s a clever widget in the content (plugin) space, whether it’s innovative use of the monetisation units or perhaps your designs have made the content (plugin) space look amazing, the Radioplayer console is yours to customise. But to ensure that each…