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As of March 1, 2017, SoCast will launch a player skin that incorporates the ability to add your station to the Radioplayer Canada ecosystem, while simultaneously giving you full control over branding, drawing listeners to your station's blog content, and greater monetization opportunities through SoCast's advertising solutions.
Generic Radioplayer Player: | SoCast/Radioplayer Player: |
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To get your player to look like the one above, you will need to set up a few options in SoCast's and Radioplayer's backend.
Go to your Radioplayer backend and change the URL link to your player. It should be
[your station's website]/player
Ensure that this is set up to ensure that anybody clicking on your player within Radioplayer's menu will be directed to the correct player address of your station.
If you currently use SoCast's player, and are looking to change it to the Radioplayer skin, please skip to Step 2.
Go to the Settings page, and click on Streaming Radio Player:
On the Player Type dropdown, click on SoCast Player
Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save.
If you don't see the SoCast Player option available, please speak to your Account Manager. |
In your Streaming Radio Player settings, click on Edit Skin then select Radioplayer Music 1.0:
If you don't see the Radioplayer Music 1.0 option available, please speak to your Account Manager. |
Enter the settings in the Radioplayer controls settings:
Player Logo: This is the logo you will see in the top left of the Radioplayer header
Dimensions and format: 220x50px, JPG/PNG/GIF
Radioplayer Control Bar Background Colour: This is the colour of the Radioplayer header bar
Add the colour in hex format.
Radioplayer control button theme: The colour of the favourites, play and volume buttons.
You have the choice between a light and dark
Radioplayer Station ID: This is the ID from Radioplayer’s backend
Ensure you enter the right number to make sure the correct station is pulled in.
Please see our other articles below to take you through how to set up the other areas of your player's skin, your player streaming URLs, and setting up DFP ads on your player:
To set up all other areas of your player skin, please see our help document here:
Player Skin
To set up your player streams, please see our help document here:
Player Streams
To set up advertising on your player, please see our help documents here:
How Do I Setup Video Preroll?
How Do I Setup My Player Leaderboard Ad?
How Do I Setup My Player Big Box Ad
How Do I Setup My Player Mobile Banner Ad Code?