RadioBox - ShoutCast Radio Stack
The team at SymfoniP love media in all its various facets and we have covered just about all possible variations of Audio plugins for RapidWeaver for over three years ever since the first release of the Stacks Plugin from Yourhead. Something that has not really been tackled has been integrating streaming radio stations to your RapidWeaver powered web site until now.
RadioBox our latest Stack element aims to address this with a simple clean HTML5 (Flash were required) Player and integrated ‘channel’ list for your ShoutCast Radio streams.
3 sample Radio Stations configured in Radiobox
If you are building or managing a site for your local or community radio station and they have already have a ShoutCast mp3 stream already setup then you can use this new Stack to manage
- ‘channels’ via a dynamic Google Spreadsheet list, effectively a ShoutCast stream!
- Artwork for each ‘channel’
- Native MP3 HTML5 Audio (kind to your iDevices) and automatic Flash Player playback
No coding experience is required to create the actual player itself and we have already provided a sample setup already built into the RadioBox Stack configuration . Sample channels and information on what you need to do to create the channel/stream list for the player is covered in our User Guide.
Features:
- No PHP required
- integrated mp3 shoutcast stream player and ‘channel’ list
- manage a channel list in a Google Doc (spreadsheet), changes made in the document update the channel list. You can also share the document with other editors or your clients.
- Automatic HTML5 /Flash Playback
- support images in the player (can be for each channel/stream )
- playback support in Firefox, IE9, IE8, Safari, Chrome, IOS
Requirements
- A ShoutCast radio stream
- A public (that is published to the web) Google doc matching the format we describe in our User Guide for the channel list
- channel artwork is optional but can be anywhere public on your website or even in public Dropbox folder
Limitations
- only one RadioBox stack in a page for now
- no mixing in the same page with other MusicBoxes or our other Audio players
Support exceptions
Out-with standard support in resolving defects on actual code. Given the varied setup and time consuming nature of Shoutcast itself, this is why we include a sample setup already ! , if you need personal assistance in discovering your Shoutcast mp3 stream or wish support in getting the player working with your Shoutcast service provider you can purchase a suppport pack directly from our Support Site.
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