Today a new feature appears on the site, tracks search.
On top of now being able to search any radio tracks, and find the one
you want to play, you can from today listen to a selection of tracks
from a radio.\
Hashtags are pretty neat, they can be used to create “playlists” from
your tracks.
Let’s say, that if on every “jazz” track in you radio, you add to the
description the term “#jazz”; you and every other user will then be
able to search for all tracks that you decided to tag. Therefore,
hashtags can be used as tags, if you feel like it.
Track description, and title
Every track you add to you radio can have a “title” and “description”.
These two fields are used to lookup for your search. You can add every
information you think is usefull to a description.
Fig 2. Radio
Girafe use of
track descriptions allows to play a selection of tracks from “1978”
The future
We this is a major feature and a pretty usefull one. It is also only the
beginning as some new ideas will soon come to complement this feature.
If you start using #hashtags in your tracks, let’s say “#cumbia”, or
“#party”, you can also “advertise” your tags in your radio channel
description. That way, listeners looking for a radio with “cumbia” will
be able to find you, and listen directly to your cumbia selection; a
good match.\
Last teaser, wouldn’t it be sweet if your tracks could easily have tags
already? Let’s say, the country of origin, the track released year, the
record label that published it… genre? styles? Many possibilities in
this forseable future.
As usual, let us know if you’re having any feedback, issue or want to
get in touch:\
From today you can embed your Radio4000 onto any other webpage.
Meet RADIO ARKOV.
How to use?
You need to add to your site the following snippet of
code.
You will find the right code to be copied at the bottom of every
Radio4000 radio page.
You can customize the values in pixels of `width` and `height` of
this `iframe` HTML element to suit your design needs. If you look
closer, you will see the part in the `src` property, ending with
`?slug=arkov`. Replace `arkov` for your radio
slug
and it will work too! Not something to remember, just fun to know.
Features
This player is exactly the same as the one used on
radio4000.com. We introduced it earlier this
year (blog
post).
Everything you do on Radio4000 you can also do this this player, on
every website you encounter it.
The player is responsive, that means it will fully resize itself
depending on your screen size (try it!). Actually, not only does it
resize with the scren, but with the parent HTML elements it is within.
If you are not certain what html is and how it works, we would warmly
recommand you have a look at Codecademy’s tutorial on HTML and
CSS. It is a
great ressource to quickly start enjoying writting useful pieces of
code.
just wanted to share with you two good tips to start listening to a
radio as fast as possible.
Let’s take a radio, could be yours, could be anyone else’s, let’s
say balls, radio4000.com/balls, hi
balls!
When you want to play this radio
on radio4000.com, you will probably type the
address of radio4000 in your web browser, then visit the radio page
before finally hitting the play button or a track on the chosen radio.\
That’s cool and pretty quick, but now there is a faster way, taking the
form of a URL shortcut. Let me show you, it is very straight forward.
Radio4000 updates to version 3.3! What’s new?In order to explore radios faster, we’ve added a “play ‘n shuffle” button on the radio channel cards. Try it, tap it as many times as you like, we think it makes listening much more fun. Your favorite radios are taking the place of the “most popular radios” section directly on the homepage.We’ve also started implementing a new design for radios, further innovations can be expected in the upcoming versions.HTTPS protocol comes in to improve security of communications between your devices and Radio4000 (Note: we recommend you to use this browser extension, https everywhere, that forces https on every site you visit).Finally, one small but useful change; to share the current track being played, copy its link from the player bar at the bottom.We’re already working on the next version for Radio4000, you can expect non-intrusive notifications to let you know when radios you like have added new tracks.One last keyword, customization.Have a good week, maybe this track from last week’s featured radio, Sugar Hiccup, can help shape it.
