Radioplayer is always working to find new ways of making it easy for you to send us Now Playing information. If you have your own developers, then you might have come up with ways to extract this information from your playout system. However if you use P Squared’s Myriad, then they now support metadata posting…
Interstitials are going away – The next generation Radioplayer console will no longer support interstitials. If you are using this ad format, we recommend you migrate to alternatives such as in-console display advertising or VAST video advertising The Radioplayer console has been built with monetisation in mind, providing you with a number of opportunities to…
Radioplayer encourages radio stations to submit additional metadata about on air content to enhance the experience for end users. This information can be submitted to our systems and will automatically populate the web console and mobile apps. Radioplayer can accept metadata about the radio station itself, the shows, and segments within shows – right down…
The ‘plugin space’ is an area in the web-based console which we let radio stations customise. This area is fixed in size but there are plenty of ways you can use it. The size is 360 pixels wide by 517 pixels tall. If you’ve upgraded to the 3.1 console, your plugin space will be fixed…
RSS feeds are designed for syndicating content. Popular with news sites and blogs, RSS feeds can also be used to syndicate audio. If you’re new to RSS, you can read all about it here. There are two or three ways to go about creating your feed and it’s likely you’ll need to enlist a web…
The Radioplayer mobile Station Screen API allows radio stations to interact with the Radioplayer mobile app using JavaScript in their web-pages. Every station is able to develop their own Station Screen, which is shown on the mobile app’s “Now playing” screen when the station is played. In order to interact with the app, station developers…
Version 1.0.2 | API documentation This document describes our recommendations for designing and building Station Screen HTML pages for the Radioplayer mobile apps. Submitting your Mobile App Station Screen to Radioplayer There are two ways. If you submit XML to Radioplayer, you should upgrade the xml metadata feed to use the new schema in order…
Radioplayer allows you to customise the station page in the mobile app. This article explains how, however this is an advanced topic and the intended audience is experienced front-end developers. Don’t start out on this, if that’s not you, as the implementation is quite challenging and Radioplayer’s support is limited to these articles. The station…
It’s quite easy to get your station included in the Radioplayer mobile apps. It’s just a matter of ensuring you’ve got a compatible stream available (low bitrate mp3 or aac at 48k or under) and a couple of logos cropped. Step 1: Prepare your streams The Radioplayer mobile apps require a stream of 48k or…
The basics Our brand new browser console has a number of core features which we’ll show you on this page. Here’s a quick guide to each part… 1. Menu button 2. Enlarged area for your station logo (220×50 max, 180×50 recommended) 3. Now Playing Ticker – also doubles as a seek bar for On Demand…