The Airtime Pro team is proud to announce the brand new Radio Page, set to go live on December 12. All current trial and paid stations will be upgraded automatically.

The new specs have been designed to meet Airtime Pro users’ needs, especially when it comes to making your programming more social, shareable and fun to use. This design and functionality release is part of a bigger project to add more features to Radio Page.

Let’s see what’s new!

Schedule page

• We moved the station description to the Home page (Start) so that everyone can see what your station is about right away…
• Which is why Schedule Overview has moved to the “second” page.
• You can now customize your background image.

• Station admins can also try different Color Schemes for their Radio Page.

• The navigation menu has moved from bottom to the left-hand side.

Podcast Page

• We added Social Media Links (under the logo). Station admins can customize links.
• You can help first-time listeners understand what your station is all about by adding Station Tags (category/genre).
• Show Information is a new feature where you can say more about  your ongoing/scheduled shows.
• We gave the Playout toolbar at the bottom of the page a makeover so it looks crisp and clean.

Share track

• We added Automated Track Artwork display.
• Desktop users will appreciate the new Volume bar.
• The Share Track button lets your listeners share Now Playing tracks via Twitter, Facebook, Google +, or their email accounts.  Along with the Social Media Links in the top left corner, this new feature will get the word out about your station!
• The Embed Button takes sharing one step further. Listeners can embed your player widget on their own, wherever they want.

Embed Player Widget

• The new Radio Page comes with responsive design, which will make it look good on all devices, especially mobile ones.
• All the settings and new custom options for your new Radio Page can be found in the new Settings Page (Settings -> Radio Page)

UI on iPhone 6+

Radio Page Settings

We hope you’ll like it as much as we do!

Happy broadcasting (and listening),

The Airtime Pro Team

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We want you to get the most out of your radio station, that’s why we just created two brand new features for Airtime Pro. If you aren’t already an Airtime user, take a minute to sign up for a free trial. Within your station, you will notice that there are a couple changes. Read on to find out more.

Built-in podcast feed for Airtime Pro

As many of you know, podcasts have seen a significant resurgence in popularity ever since the release of NPR’s Serial podcast. Podcasts are radio programs available for download on-demand over the internet and are the best way to reach any listeners who’ve missed your radio broadcast. That’s why podcasts are a logical extension of our internet radio broadcasting software, Airtime Pro. We recently decided to create a few brand new and exciting features for Airtime Pro that will help broadcasters take advantage of this explosion in podcast popularity. So without further ado, welcome to the new built-in podcast feed for Airtime Pro.

My Podcast

To help you better reach your listeners, Airtime Pro now gives you a built-in podcast feed for your radio station. After uploading a full-length radio show to your station, you can easily publish it to your podcast feed and SoundCloud in only two clicks. The best part? Your podcast feed can be browsed, played, and subscribed to right from your Radio Page today. Just click the new Podcast icon on your Radio Page to check it out!

The new built-in podcast feed on the Radio player

 

Podcast ingest

Airtime Pro can now subscribe to your favorite podcast feeds and automatically download new episodes into your track library, bringing the best radio content from the web directly to your station. This powerful feature can save you time by aggregating and importing tracks for you.

Station-to-station sharing

Now that Airtime Pro can import and publish podcast episodes, you can easily share radio programs with your partner stations by publishing them to your podcast. If you’d prefer to share only with other stations and not your listeners, you can do that by toggling your Podcast Visibility to Private and sharing the secret link only with those stations.

Facebook widget

How strong is your social media game? Whether you have an established presence on Facebook or are just getting started, adding the new Facebook player widget will take your page to the next level.  

The built-in podcast feed is conveniently displayed on the radio page

This new widget allows you to add your radio station to your Facebook page. The widget appears as a “Radio Player” tab on your Facebook page and lets your fans listen to your radio station and podcast right from your page. The new Facebook widget can be found inside your Airtime Pro station by clicking Widgets on the left, then Facebook.

Adding the Facebook widget to your Facebook page is simple

Enjoy! Invite your friends to sign up for Airtime Pro and start building your radio station network today. If you have any questions or need any assistance, send us an email and we’ll get right on it.

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Dashboard Tracks

We transformed the Now Playing screen into a Dashboard view that allows you to schedule tracks and manage your library more efficiently in a single view. We also made the layout more intuitive, consistent, and responsive across more screen resolutions and devices.

Smart Block Editor Dynamic Tabbed

This update also lays the foundation for some exciting new features we’re planning to bring you over the coming months. We’re not quite ready to unveil them just yet, but when we’re finished, they’ll form part of our next open source release, Airtime 3.0.

At Sourcefabric, we’re committed to empowering independent media through open source, and we intend to continue helping independent radio around the world by releasing this powerful new version of Airtime to the community next year.

Summary of changes

• The new, streamlined interface makes it easier to find and use some of our best features like the Smart Block Editor.
• The Dashboard view offers a powerful tabbed editing interface allowing multiple playlists to be edited more easily within the workspace.
• The Upload page now allows you to drag and drop an entire folder of tracks from your computer to be uploaded.
• The update includes dozens of usability enhancements and a new layout that offers a better experience across more screen resolutions and devices.

We’ve prepared a short tutorial explaining these changes for you. Enjoy watching it!

Are you looking to further streamline your broadcasting workflow or distribute audio on other platforms? Let us know what you’d like to see next from Airtime Pro on our Facebook page or Twitter! Interested in running your own internet radio station? Sign up today for a 7 day trial of Airtime Pro!

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We also made a number of small tweaks to eliminate some pain points for station managers. For example, it’s now easier to reset your station’s settings to using our Airtime Pro streaming servers.

Moreover, we have been working on improving the overall organization of our user interface to make Airtime easier to discover for new radio DJs.

A new Airtime Pro experience

Airtime Pro’s new look

Next month, we’ll be unveiling a revamped style for Airtime Pro and a refined user interface that streamlines your radio experience. It’s built on the same visual components you’ve come to love and rely on to power your station, but organised in a more intuitive way. Essentially this means that you will be able to find what you’re looking for more easily!

If you’re an existing customer and you’re interested in participating in a closed beta of the new Airtime Pro experience, please get in touch!

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Input Stream Settings Improvements

To make Airtime easier to use with live streaming and to help the support team, we’ve redesigned the ‘Input Stream Settings’ panel in the preferences so that it’s much easier to read. The Live Input panel on the ‘Add Show’ form has also been reworked.

We’ve redesigned the ‘Input Stream Settings’

The Live Input panel on the ‘Add Show’ form has been reworked

Usability hints

Stuck? Never fear! We’ve started implementing hints that will walk you through the process of starting your first broadcast, and also help you diagnose problems. We provide a sequence of 3 hints in the hopes of getting stations on air quickly and easily. These include:

1. How to upload a track
2. How to schedule a show
3. How to add tracks to a scheduled show

We’ve added three usability hints

Immediate Show Creation

You can now start your show immediately

To further streamline your first broadcast, we’ve added the ability for you to start a show immediately. Users can now select the ‘Now’ option when creating a show. This eliminates the need to hand select a start date and a start time. One restriction with the ‘now’ option is show linking is disabled. Linked shows can only be created ‘In the future’.

Hide the login button on the Radio Page

We recently had a user request to be able to hide the login button on the ‘Radio Page’, and that’s now an option in the preferences.

You can now hide the login button on the Radio Page

Are you looking to further streamline your broadcasting workflow or distribute audio on other platforms? Let us know what you’d like to see next from Airtime Pro on our Facebook page or Twitter!

Interested in running your own internet radio station? Sign up today for a free 7 day trial of Airtime Pro!

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To enable uploading to SoundCloud, go to the Preferences page under System, and click “Connect to SoundCloud”.

Connecting to SoundClound is easy

When you left-click on a track in your library, you’ll now see a new option allowing you to upload the track to SoundCloud:

You can now upload the tracks to SoundCloud

Are you looking to further streamline your broadcasting workflow or distribute audio on other platforms? Let us know what you’d like to see next from Airtime Pro on our Facebook page or Twitter!

Interested in running your own internet radio station? Sign up today for a free 7 day trial of Airtime Pro!

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Reduction in load time for key pages with the optimizations in this week’s Airtime Pro update.

We accomplished these performance improvements by starting with rigorous in-browser profiling, and then by improving key code paths or interactions that had high impacts on load times. Our optimizations involved significantly reducing the number of requests required to load all data on pages, optimizing our JavaScript and DOM manipulation, and lastly optimizing certain frequently called functions in our backend PHP code.

Reduction in load time for key actions on the Now Playing screen, with 24 hours of content scheduled.

Getting worry-free enhancements like this is one of the benefits of hosting your radio station with Airtime Pro, and we’ve got plenty more in store for the coming months.

Need internet radio hosting? Sign up for a free 7 day Airtime Pro trial today and find out why more station owners are choosing Airtime Pro.

Load time benchmarks were performed in Chrome 41 on an Intel Core i5 with 6 GB of RAM, on Ubuntu 14.04. All stations were hosted on Airtime Pro.

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The player widget in action

This feature allows you to easily embed your Airtime Pro station on any website with just one line of HTML code. Simple, right? So why should you be as excited about this new player widget as we are? Well, to sum it up, your listeners are going to love it and we’ve made it really easy to use.

This widget will automatically play the stream with the best compatibility with the listener’s platform. If your listener limit is reached on a stream, it falls back to your alternate streams.
Because mobile phone media consumption is becoming increasingly prevalent, this player was made to be mobile friendly by allowing the playback of a lower quality “mobile” stream, if one is enabled in your station’s ‘Stream Settings’ page.

Streams can now be designated as mobile-friendly so that they’re automatically streamed at a lower quality to listeners on a mobile device.

This feature is fully compatible with the following platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, and iOS. Currently, only limited usage is possible on Android. For the best compatibility on the desktop, Adobe Flash is recommended, but not required. (HTML5 is used if Flash is unavailable).

The new player widget can be found inside your Airtime station under SYSTEM -> Player.

Your feedback and suggestions help shape the future of Airtime Pro, so let us know what you think of the new Airtime Pro Player Widget on Facebook, Twitter, or by email!

Stay tuned for new “How to embed” tutorials coming soon.

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