Cloudbroadcaster

New autodj coming soon.

Hugues — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:58:25 +0000

We are pretty excited, next week we will release our first version of the autodj on our cloudrad.io manager. There will be a lot of cool feature that our customer have requested over the last few years. Like automatic fade in and fade out from live show to the autodj and much more.

As soon as it’s released, we will start working on our new web player to replace the existing one. We know that a lot of customer have issue with it.

Stay tuned!

New website

Hugues — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:07:29 +0000

We have launch our new website and you can now order our new package from our cloudrad.io panel.

We have added lot of features:
- Icecast 2.3.2 support
- Google Maps
- Embed your listeners informations on your website
- Public listen links
- Basic Stats

Check our features page!

Enjoy!

Billing system maintenance – Completed

Hugues — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:56:59 +0000

We are currently doing a maintenance, everything will be back shortly.

Cloudrad.io lastest update

Hugues — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:06:24 +0000

We just release Cloudrad.io version 0.3. The main feature of this release is our new stats system. Basically we have some harvester that do data collection every 5 minutes and we produce basic graph with it (for now). As always, our stats can scale to the infinite, so that’s why it’s also free for everyone, you can create stats for any radio station even if it’s not hosted with us.

Let us know if you like it and also what you will like to see in the future, you can post your comments in our new forum http://forum.cloudrad.io

An other good news, we now fully support shoutcast v2 and shoutcast v1. You can switch between both version inside your config tab. Enjoy!

Upcoming feature: A new web player to replace the current one!

CloudRad.io Launched!

Hugues — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:02:36 +0000

Cloudrad.io is our new panel that we are working on since few months already. It’s all coded in Ruby on Rails and we plan to move all our existing centova panel customer on this platform. Today, we are releasing the first beta version. There is not a lot of features available at this time, but in the next coming weeks, we will announce new features.

Current features:
- Tickets management
- Invoices management
- Shoutcast v2 management

The main advantage of this system is that we own it, so we can add all the features that our customers want. Also, it’s all cloud based.

We will add statistics report in the next release. We plan to add the auto dj shortly as well. To begin with, we will move all our free account on this new panel.

To login: http://cloudrad.io

More info to come! :)

London location down [Resolved]

Hugues — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:47:46 +0000

London location is down at the moment. The good news it’s not only our servers, but all service hosted at this datacenter, so it should be resolved quickly. Thank you for your patience.

20:55 EST: The datacenter is now back online.

21:05 EST: Down again, I will update this post with some info.

21:40 EST: Now back online, I hope for good.

Flash player update — now hosted on Akamai

Hugues — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:46:14 +0000

Here is some good news about our flash player — we just released an update.

Features:

- We have moved some of our files to a CDN (Akamai) in order to increase the speed of our flash player.
- Small code change implemented to allow the album cover and title to load much faster.

Bug fix:

- We have fixed a bug that was preventing the title and album cover from updating in Internet Explorer.

Lots of new content

Hugues — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:46:25 +0000

We have upgraded our website with a new FAQ and an Articles section. Together, these will replace our old knownledgebase. It’s now a lot easier to find what you are looking for.

If there is a particular topic you would like to see covered in our article section, you can post a request in the comments section of this page: http://cloudbroadcaster.com/articles/. We will do our best to add your requested content.

We love music, we love radio

Hugues — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:14:19 +0000

If anybody is wondering why we are in the streaming industry, I can only talk for myself. I personally love music; I have been a DJ for more than ten years, and I have always listened to music online.

I have been in the hosting industry since 2003; back then there were not many companies out there. I started hosting Web radio in 2005, and launched a dedicated server company in 2007, which I sold in 2009 so I could focus more on consulting and Web radio.

In 2010, I decided to open Cloud Broadcaster, and since then I have been dedicated to bringing down the cost of radio streaming while keeping the quality up. I know that when you are a small radio station—or even a bigger one—your expenses are really hard to keep under control. Bandwidth is expensive and it can be a challenge to attract enough advertisers to generate the income you deserve. At Cloud Broadcaster, we are here to change that. The first 18 months have been geared towards bringing the price down, but now we are starting to focus on the business side of radio. We will be bringing in a lot of new tools in 2012 to help you.

With a strong background in the hosting industry and a degree in business administration, coupled with a love of the music as strong as yours, I think my team and I have a lot to offer, and we look forward to growing with you.

Hugues Morneau
CEO
CloudBroadcaster.com

Radio monitoring

Hugues — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:54:17 +0000

Have you ever woken up in the morning and realized that:

After a few checks, your Sam Broadcaster was frozen. This can cause you a lot of problems, including losing your listeners if they can’t tune in to your radio station, they are likely to tune in to your competitors, and they may stay there for good.

That’s why we now offer radio monitoring. We will check your SHOUTcast admin page every five minutes, and if the message “server is currently down” comes up, we will send you a notification by email. This service is available from $9/month per SHOUTcast server.