Our users have suggested these new features should be added to the AzuraCast web radio suite.

Each suggestion should be for one single enhancement to the software. Don't use this tool for bug reports; use our GitHub Issues section. Suggestions should be made in English.

761 votes

HLS Streaming Support (M3U8 Playlist)

Please support M3U8 Playlist for using in Remote URL Playlist.
Suggested by: Lala (11 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 11
Done
605 votes

Podcasting

Reach more listeners with a built-in podcast feed for my station. Not only will my listeners be able to catch up through their favorite podcatching apps, but they ...
Suggested by: Wurak (09 Aug, '19) • Upvoted: 14 Feb • Comments: 18
Done
546 votes

Remote Download

It allows me to download a file to station media folder from another place online (a website) remotely by simply entering the link of that file. Example: I want to ...
Suggested by: Wura (31 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 10
Under consideration
461 votes

Add the ability for listeners to vote on songs.

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/79
Suggested by: Buster Neece (18 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 17 Mar • Comments: 19
Under consideration
335 votes

Drag-and-drop Music Scheduler

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/639 https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/779
Suggested by: Buster Neece (20 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 8
Under consideration
316 votes

Geo IP Blocking

Due to using copyrighted materials restricted to certain countries, please add Geo IP Blocking feature (by country) to Azuracast.
Suggested by: Wura (08 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 15 Dec, '22 • Comments: 14
Done
304 votes

Song request contains only songs related to playlist loaded

It would be useful, to see only songs related to playlist in the songs request feature (maybe with a settings flag) because most of users tends to suggest same songs ...
Suggested by: Claudio Maradonna (02 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: 15 Feb, '22 • Comments: 6
Done
281 votes

Monetization

Station owners need to monetize their stations and I suggest the following methods: 1) Audio Advertising: Maximizing Advertising Zones (MAZ) Using audio ...
Suggested by: Vevone (02 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: 17 Mar • Comments: 3
Under consideration
250 votes

Player Embed Widget Builder

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/1117 "There have been requests for more feature-rich players for embed, it would be nice to be able to build a custom ...
Suggested by: Buster Neece (20 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 14 Mar • Comments: 14
Planned
238 votes

Very Simple URL Streaming

Custom Very Simple URL Streaming https://<domain>/<station>/<mountpoint> or https://<domain>/<mountpoint> thank's
Suggested by: gunsar (26 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 04 Mar • Comments: 3
Planned
203 votes

WHMCS module

Module for auto creation service through whmcs billing system
Suggested by: insha (16 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 10 Mar • Comments: 7
Planned
198 votes

Monitoring & silence detection

So we could monitor the status of our radio stream and alert us by email if our stream is down, the presence of dead air or if no source is connected.
Suggested by: Mele (08 Aug, '19) • Upvoted: 12 Mar • Comments: 8
Under consideration
191 votes

Time signal

Hello, Is there a possibility to reproduce an hourly signal every hour? How would it be done? Thank you!
Suggested by: Fide (07 Jul, '20) • Upvoted: 10 Mar • Comments: 2
Under consideration
188 votes

Authenticated Listeners with Icecast (htpasswd)

With Icecast servers I wan to set up authenticated listeners on my station. I may find this feature useful if I wanted to implement a listener subscription based ...
Suggested by: Wura (09 Aug, '19) • Upvoted: 17 Feb • Comments: 7
Under consideration
162 votes

Categories

I have multiple categories like Music, Sports and etc., on the platform and under each category I have different stations. For example: Sports > Station 1, Station ...
Suggested by: Wura (31 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 12 Feb • Comments: 2
Under consideration
151 votes

Video to Audio

I have a live video streaming feed (HLS) and want to convert it to audio streaming (MP3) and broadcast on my station. So Azuracast receives video from a remote URL ...
Suggested by: Vevone (28 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 3
Under consideration
151 votes

Add "Genre" tab on "Request a song's" list

Please add the "Genre" tab on "Request a song's" list from the web player on the public page.
Suggested by: brainwave (12 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 18 Feb • Comments: 1
Done
147 votes

Automatically Record Live DJ Streams

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/934 "DJ's are asking would it be possible to auto record their streams. Would such a feature be possible, only for ...
Suggested by: Buster Neece (19 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 18 Feb • Comments: 13
Done AutoDJ
144 votes

Avatar for Live Streamers/DJs

Add the ability to set an avatar as a DJ, followed by display instead of a cover.
Suggested by: Alex (15 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: 01 Jun, '22 • Comments: 18
Done
143 votes

Add load balancer stream link for multiple relays

azurarelays adds additional audiostream links. So, loadbalancer must know number of listeners on each relay and return the lowest.
Suggested by: alex (13 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 3
Under consideration
114 votes

Clockwheels: A Very Important Feature For A Radio Station

I know that this has benn posted before, but I believe that this is a very important feature for a radio station. That feature is called Clockwheels. Clockwheels are ...
Suggested by: Armando (03 Oct, '20) • Upvoted: 17 Mar • Comments: 12
Planned
105 votes

Hide download button

Please provide an option on web interface to hide download button on On-Demand Player.
Suggested by: Star (25 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 22 Jul, '22 • Comments: 2
Done
104 votes

Make "Once per X" Playlists Schedulable

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/1289 "we want to add some Advert-Spots every 1 hour, but only from Monday to Friday. Now we are using the "Once Per ...
Suggested by: Buster Neece (20 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 20 Oct, '22 • Comments: 3
Done Playlists
101 votes

User adjustable audio processing

At the moment there is a fixed preset for normalization and audio compression. Some end user adjustments including a way to boost the quiet portions within audio as ...
Suggested by: Andy (13 Jun, '19) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 7
Under consideration
100 votes

Bulk Editing of Multiple Music Files

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/752 "When using large librairies, I would need to edit multiple files at once and change their values. (Crossfade ...
Suggested by: Buster Neece (20 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 04 May, '22 • Comments: 7
Done Media Management
95 votes

Add support for Google Analytics

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/601
Suggested by: Buster Neece (18 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 11 Feb • Comments: 4
Done
87 votes

Unraid Docker

I'd love to have docker support for AzuraCast in unraid, i'm unfortunatly not familiar enough with the docker creation to pull from DockerHub and make it work, but ...
Suggested by: Remamian Takashi (06 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 13 Mar • Comments: 1
Under consideration
85 votes

Migration script from Centova

Hello! I think an automatic migration script from Centova to AzuraCast would be a great tool. That it imports the services shoutcast, icecast, with each user of ...
Suggested by: Gabriel (13 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 02 Mar • Comments: 1
Under consideration
82 votes

Add custom favicon support to branding options.

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/786
Suggested by: Buster Neece (19 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 18 Feb • Comments: 4
Done
81 votes

Stereotool integration

Add stereotool support.
Suggested by: Pascal (28 Jul, '20) • Upvoted: 03 Dec, '22 • Comments: 19
Done
80 votes

Add stream intro file support

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/1270 "Checked a few popular radio stations in Germany and some of them play a station jingle every time you start ...
Suggested by: Buster Neece (20 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 19
Done
79 votes

App

Is it possible to have a multiplayer or single application? An incredible app shared? Developed with the api azura
Suggested by: Rafael (04 Jul, '19) • Upvoted: 17 Mar • Comments: 4
Under consideration
79 votes

Add support for VST plugins

There are some incredible VST plugins out there (like StereoTool) that can give an online stream that "Big FM" sound. I would like to use some of these audio plugins ...
Suggested by: Brian Jurkowski (21 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 1
Under consideration
77 votes

Radio Station Performance

To reach my station's full potential by understanding how I am performing. Total Listeners: Counts everyone, even loyal fans that have tuned in multiple times. ...
Suggested by: Lala (20 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Feb • Comments: 3
Under consideration
72 votes

Network graphing

I suggest adding and integrating Cacti or Zabbix for real-time Network Monitoring (Network performance, Network health) and Server Monitoring (Server performance, ...
Suggested by: Vevone (31 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 23 Jan • Comments: 0
Under consideration
69 votes

Automatically associate playlists with folders.

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/529 https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/1443 I'd like to put an entire folder into a playlist. This is ...
Suggested by: Buster Neece (18 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 25 May, '22 • Comments: 2
Done Playlists
68 votes

Add Genre field In Music Files (for sorting)

It's cool in the Music Files to add new field with "Genre". For example i have now playlist with 2500 songs, and i want to remove all Country music. It will be hard ...
Suggested by: Nikolay Dimitrov (19 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 18 Feb • Comments: 1
Done
67 votes

Stream from Dropbox

Please add a feature to stream audio files (mp3, aac) from a Dropbox folder and broadcast on radio station.
Suggested by: Vevone (09 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: 12 Aug, '21 • Comments: 0
Done
64 votes

Support custom equalizer configuration inside the app.

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/288
Suggested by: Buster Neece (18 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 2
Under consideration AutoDJ
64 votes

Ability to set a proxy in the telegram Web Hook section

In some countries, access to Telegram is blocked and it is not possible to use Telegram Web Hook. Is it possible to add a definition and use a proxy to the Telegram ...
Suggested by: Mehdi Hassani (04 Mar, '22) • Upvoted: 30 Mar, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration
63 votes

Add better transition (cross fading) for interrupting playlists

I have a bunch of playlists that have to start at a specific time, so I am setting them to interrupt the current plying track. The issue is that the interrupt is very ...
Suggested by: Josue D Rodriguez (12 Sep, '19) • Upvoted: 09 Dec, '22 • Comments: 5
Under consideration
61 votes

Save Remote Stream

Please add a feature to save a Remote URL Stream/Playlist in Music Files as mp3 file.
Suggested by: Lala (16 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 0
Under consideration
60 votes

RSS Poadcast

Hello, i wish a feature to add Poadcasts in the RSS format.
Suggested by: preterive (06 Jun, '19) • Upvoted: 16 Dec, '22 • Comments: 1
Under consideration
57 votes

Offer exclusive content 🔒

I want to restrict access to some radio stations to incentivise listener donations so I can reward my paid users or loyal fans or supporters with exclusive content ...
Suggested by: Wura (07 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 15 Jan • Comments: 1
Under consideration
56 votes

Setting for not repeating an artist within X amount of time.

I know lots of people have issues with artists repeating, and in previous issues i've read its because of the shuffling algorithm. However I was wondering if it's ...
Suggested by: Josh (24 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 23 Feb • Comments: 8
Done
56 votes

Server Status

Please display memory usage (RAM) of the server in Server Status under Administration page.
Suggested by: Lala (19 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Oct, '21 • Comments: 1
Done
53 votes

Show station genre tag from icecast in the API and manipulate it.

Could you please add the GENRE field form the icecast page in the /api/nowplaying/, and it will be great if you can manipulate the genre with the DJ app, like here in ...
Suggested by: Nikolay Dimitrov (19 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Feb • Comments: 0
Under consideration
51 votes

Disconnect listeners

To save bandwidth, resources and stop streaming rippers, please add a feature to disconnect listeners after a certain duration. For example, disconnect after 2 hours.
Suggested by: Wura (29 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: 20 Jan, '22 • Comments: 3
Done
51 votes

Even more liquidsoap custom configuration

Hi there! I have seen a number of user requests/issues where station owners are unable to configure their own live transition to automation, such as a jingle, or ...
Suggested by: joshms123 (19 Apr, '20) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 1
Under consideration
49 votes

Schedule when DJs can connect.

https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/issues/686 "Too often in stations I've been part of, I have occasions where djs forget to drop their encoder when they are ...
Suggested by: Buster Neece (18 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 20 Jan • Comments: 3
Done Live DJs