A running log of everything new, improved, and fixed across Radio Cult — from broadcast infrastructure to scheduling, mobile, and the API.
Copy any show in one click. Open an event, hit duplicate, and the create form opens with everything already filled in: title, description, artists, tags, colour, media and repeat rule. Change the bits you want and save.
Needs the same permission as creating an event, so the button only shows for people who can already add shows
CharlieSchedule a show on the last Friday of every month and have it land on the last Friday, whether that month has four or five of them. Monthly and bimonthly, in the dashboard and over the API.
Two new options in the repeat picker: Monthly on the last Friday and Bimonthly on the last Friday, named for whichever weekday your show starts on
They appear when the show starts on the last of that weekday in its month, alongside the existing fixed-occurrence options
A weekday-of-month rrule now takes BYSETPOS=-1, for example
FREQ=MONTHLY;BYSETPOS=-1;BYDAY=FR;WKST=SU. startDateUtc must be that
last weekday
Documented in the create_event MCP tool and the schedule automation agent
skill
More reliable image uploading and resizing across tracks and artists
CharlieTwo new ways to take the admin off your plate. Connect an AI agent like Claude or ChatGPT and build next week of shows just by asking, or use our expanded API to automate the busywork yourself.
Connect an AI agent like Claude or ChatGPT and manage your station just by asking, from scheduling shows to updating your artists, no code required
Build and change your schedule by asking: create, update and delete shows, set up a repeating series, and book artists onto events
Included on Premium and Business, or add Connect to Starter or Growth. Compare plans or see what Connect covers on the radio station API and AI agents page
Create, update, and delete schedule events, with support for repeating series daily, weekly, or monthly, plus adding and removing artists on an event
Create, update, and delete tracks, playlists, tags, and artists, plus update, download, and delete your recordings, straight over the API, all documented in the API reference
CharlieReady-made skills that teach your AI coding agent to build against the RadioCult API the right way. Realtime now-playing metadata instead of polling, an audio element that stays in sync, schedule queries that fetch artists in one request, publishable-key-only players, and direct media uploads. Download them from the API docs.
Three agent skills to start: a custom player, a station website and schedule, and media uploads. Download them from the API docs
Tell the upload skill "upload this folder to my station" and your agent uploads the files for you, validating type and size and attaching metadata
The player skill uses realtime metadata over websockets and loads and unloads the stream from the audio element cleanly, keeping listener analytics accurate
The schedule skill hydrates artists and tags in a single request only when they are shown, avoiding per-artist calls and wasted rate limit
Works with Claude, Codex, Gemini and ChatGPT. Download a zip for Claude, or
copy the prompt into an AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, Custom GPT or Gemini Gem
The track upload endpoint now enforces a 750MB maximum file size and returns a clear error when a file is too large
CharlieBuild roles that fit exactly how your station works. Decide what each person can see, do, and manage across your station, then assign that role to anyone on your team. No more squeezing people into a handful of fixed roles and hoping they were close enough.
Create a role from scratch and choose exactly what it can access, including your schedule, music library, artists, chat, settings, going live and more
Switch each capability on or off until the role matches the way your station actually works, like letting a DJ delete their own tracks or view the analytics page to check their listener numbers mid-show
Update a role whenever your needs change, and everyone assigned to it picks up the new access straight away
BarnsYour upload history now stays put for the whole session instead of clearing as files finish. Queue up hundreds of files and still see exactly what uploaded, what failed and why.
Failed uploads can be retried straight from the history, without starting over
Finished uploads now stay in the list for the rest of your session instead of disappearing, so a big batch never hides what happened
Each upload shows whether it succeeded or failed, and surfaces the reason for any failures
BarnsShift + click has come to tables across RadioCult, so you can select a whole range of rows in one go. Pair it with the new bulk actions on relays, playlists, tags and artists to act on everything you have selected at once.
Shift + click support lets you select and deselect a range of items at once
Bulk actions are now available across relays, playlists, tags and artist tables
Tables now overflow horizontally rather than being squished when multiple columns are enabled
CharlieArtists can now be edited inline through a new slide-out drawer, so you can make a quick change without leaving the page. The full artist page is still there whenever you need it.
A new slide-out drawer lets you edit an artist inline, without opening the full page
The artists table now has new columns, plus the ability to reorder them and toggle them on and off
CharlieA new navigation and layout has arrived. Top navigation items have moved to the side, so you can go from viewing your schedule to editing your playlists in a single click. It makes getting around a lot smoother and gives us room to grow as we add more pages.
A persistent player with now-playing metadata lives in the top navigation, so you can listen to your stream no matter which page you are on
A new quick actions button lets you perform common tasks, like adding an event or creating a playlist, from anywhere in the app
Navigation items that lived along the top of the screen have moved to a side navigation, so every section is one click away, wherever you are
Create actions are now a consistent + button in the top right of every page, so adding an event, playlist or artist works the same everywhere
CharlieWelcome to the RadioCult 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 RadioCult 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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