Generating your console
When you log in to your Radioplayer Cloud account, you will see ‘Generate Console' under 'Tools’ on the left-hand side of the page.
Clicking on ‘Generate Console' will take to a selection page where you will see a dropdown menu of all your stations. From this menu, select the station you wish to generate a web console for and click 'Go To Create Console’.
Station logo and link
The first step in the console generation process is to specify your station logo and link to your web page.
The logo must be 48 pixels high and maximum 220 pixels wide.
The link to your web page will be used to launch your web page when a user clicks on your station logo.
Colour Theme & Custom Colour
So that users can see the transport controls on your chosen background, you need to choose an appropriate theme. Select from the available options to state whether you want a dark theme or a light theme.
We check to make sure the chosen colour theme adequately contrasts with the custom colour. Please make the appropriate adjustments to the theme/ custom colour if the colour contrast is not approved.
Based on your selected colour theme and your station logo, you will see a preview of your web player control bar. Your selected logo will appear on the left.
Content Space Option (Plugin Space)
You have three options for your web player's content space:
Widget Option
Windowed Option (IFRAME)
Image Option
The widget option displays up to 3 dynamic panels of content to display your station and programme information.
The windowed option shows a webpage in an Iframe to display your own specified content. If you have previously hosted an Iframe content panel for your previous web player, you can continue to show it using this option.
The image option allows you to upload a static image with a clickable link that listeners can follow. This is the simplest option and should be used if your station is not sending any programme or now playing information and does not provide any on-demand content.
Select whichever content space option suits your station, and follow the corresponding steps.
Stream Fallback
You have the option to specify an additional fallback stream. It handles fallback between stream, enabling the best streams to be served to each browser. The fallback stream ensures that in the rare circumstance that your station's streams cannot be played, the web player will fall back to the stream you have specified.
Generate Console
Once you have selected your preferred option and provided a fallback stream, select 'generate console' to see a preview of your console. If you are happy with how it looks and, if you have selected the widget option, you are sure you are supplying the corresponding data, click generate console again to generate the zip folder.