The Radioplayer player platform is continually being monitored to ensure things are working as they should be. Search, favouriting, recommendations and metadata syndication are all important services which we endeavour to keep up at all times. We also monitor the availability of stations’ mobile streams and undertake spot checks of consoles to ensure they’re working…
There has been a recent minor spate of attacks against websites which have been harmed and infected with malware – including a small number of radio stations. If you find one day that your browser is blocking access to the Radioplayer console, it means that your site has been infected. This is a serious situation…
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…