A running log of everything new, improved, and fixed across Radio Cult — from broadcast infrastructure to scheduling, mobile, and the API.
Welcome to the Radio Cult changelog. From today, every meaningful update, new features, polish, and fixes lands here. We've seeded the page with the highlights from the last few months so you can catch up on what you might have missed.
CharlieWe always supported more recurring rules than other providers, now we support even more. Build the recurrence pattern your show actually needs. Beyond daily, weekly, and monthly. Repeat shows on your own cadence.
CharlieFind the show you need without scrolling through the whole schedule. New filter dropdowns make it easier to narrow down the schedule by host, tag, or status.
Unauthorised error briefly flashing on screen before the login redirect on protected pages
CharlieMake embedded players and schedules look like they belong on your site, not ours. Custom fonts, transparent backgrounds, and a new payment-gate embed for paid streams.
Custom font support across all embeds: pick any Google Fonts family and it carries through the player and schedule
Transparent backgrounds on custom embeds, so embeds blend into any page layout
DST transition causing recurring events in DST-observing timezones to shift by one hour
CharlieTag your shows. Group them. Filter by them. A new way to organise the schedule by anything that matters to your station — genre, format, sponsor, language, whatever.
Pull tags alongside schedules with expand=tags on GET /schedules
"Update all" on recurring events not applying the change to all instances in some scenarios
Infinite BPM edge cases on MP3s with certain malformed ID3 tag structures
BarnsSee more about your show recordings at a glance. Two new columns: file size and archive status. Plus, the column picker remembers what you turned on.
Archive status column with a direct link through to the archived recording
Column config persists per user: show the columns you care about, hide the ones you don't
CharlieOne trip through the upload modal instead of three. Pick a playlist, tag your tracks, and upload — all in one step.
Track tags propagate automatically to Mixcloud and SoundCloud when archiving tracks
Tag input on the recordings page no longer steals clicks from neighbouring controls
CharlieThree new fields on every track. Mix smarter, build better playlists, and let your hosts find what they need faster.
CharliePull your station's track library and show recordings into your own tools. Four new public endpoints, plus rate limiting to keep things stable. Build workflows, automations and integrations to make running your station easier.
GET /tracks returns every track on your station with full metadata
GET /tracks/:id/download-url returns a signed download URL for any track
GET /recordings exposes every show recording with full metadataGET /recordings/:id/download-url returns a signed download URL for any
recording
All four endpoints are documented in the API reference
Rate limiting on API endpoints to ensure fair usage and consistent response times
The GET /tracks endpoint now returns the Mixcloud and SoundCloud URLs for
tracks and recordings that have been successfully uploaded to Mixcloud or
SoundCloud
BarnsWe've added monthly and daily views of your schedule. The schedule now flexes to whatever you're planning.
Switching to month view is dramatically faster on stations with hundreds of recurring shows
Live show and relay metadata not syncing to Now Playing integrations in some cases
Moving a recurring event could silently shift its time when the new slot crossed midnight UTC
DST transition causing recurring events to shift by an hour after clocks change
Now-playing indicator and day header rendering incorrectly after navigating across week boundaries
Overrun timing bugs causing occasional gaps or overlaps between tracks
CharlieSet the start and end times of a show down to the minute, now easier than ever. Better keyboard handling, better locale support, fewer foot-guns.
Edge cases around midnight and DST boundaries that occasionally rejected valid times
Track duration calculated incorrectly when both in and out cue points were set
Recurring event time shifting when the updated start time fell on a different UTC day
CharlieEvery track now has a visual waveform, and you can trim exactly where it starts and ends. Tighten up intros, kill long fadeouts, and ship cleaner playout.
Schedule calendar occasionally navigating to the wrong date after certain interactions
Stream connection address not wrapping correctly on narrower screens
CharlieTake direct control of what your players show as Now Playing — useful for live shows, long files containing many tracks, or where our audio fingerprinting can't help.
Show notes silently failing to save when the content exceeded 1,000 characters
Long show and playlist names overflowing their containers in the show modal
BarnsPush live Now Playing metadata straight to your Aiir account. Set your API credentials once and your station's metadata flows through automatically.
BarnsWe've done a complete revamp of the analytics dashboard. See where your listeners are, what device they're on, and how the listening curve moves through the day — all in real time.
Listening Now heatmap on the dashboard: see where exactly your current audience is tuning in from
Geographic heat map chart visualising live listener locations for a given time period
Device family breakdown: see how many listeners are on mobile, desktop, smart speakers, or dedicated radio devices
Application type breakdown: distinguish web players, the Radio Cult mobile app, third-party apps, and more
CharlieWe now support AAC streaming — better audio quality at half the bandwidth. Particularly helpful for stations with listeners with slow internet connections.
Fixed rich text show descriptions not rendering correctly in some contexts
BarnsStyle your player, chat, schedule and all other embeddable widgets to match your station's brand. Choose custom colours for the primary text, secondary text, background and more.
Fixed certain color hex codes being double-encoded, causing incorrect colours to render in embeds
CharlieIntegrate your station's Now Playing data with your TuneIn account. The setup is as easy as entering your TuneIn credentials, we handle the rest.
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