Forum Radio?

[Thomasss]

For the most part I only see a kind of "radio" on some Forumotion sites and then there are a few plugins out there that let you embed your own radio station into the forum, and for me I cannot stand the radio suddenly playing as soon as I visit, so as long as it's there but doesn't play unless I actually hit play I am fine with forum radio's. What is everyone else's thought on forums having some kind of playlist or radio on their forum? Do you have a radio embedded onto your forum?

 

[Cierra]

I don't have one on mine, I think any type of auto-music playing on sites is annoying. I've seen them on some blogs and ForuMotion sites too.

 

[Demon_skeith]

I really don't see for a need for radios on a website anymore, everyone has a music player of their own in some form so no need to embed it on your site.

 

[Sam]

If it's your own radio, you have to be prepared to pay the licensing costs for music. https://www.streamlicensing.com/directo ... ge=pricing is the cheapest I found $20/mo for 3500 listening hours (but it also depends on your revenue and expenses). There are also certain rules around operating as a webcaster.

I think it could be quite a cool idea actually depending on the type of forum. If you are a music forum, you could have an "undiscovered artist" playlist and then embed some other radio's streams for different genres.

 

[Ash]

I hate these sites as they tend to be those awful sites hosted on free domains and hosting and it results in a lot of lag which makes browsing the forum a pain.