AzuraCast @azuracast@fosstodon.org

AzuraCast is a free and open-source self-hosted web radio station in a box! Our helpful installer tools and powerful web interface let you manage every aspect of your station directly from your browser. Learn more at https://www.azuracast.com/ or our GitHub https://github.com/azuracast/azuracast

The sensation that was the MLP fandom inspired thousands of folks from all walks of life to share their energy and passion by creating things as diverse as art, music, videos, games and web sites. Our project is another result of that energy. We hope it makes your day brighter /)

The original Azura was named for the site's theme, a deep blue "azure"; that color and the hexagon motif still live on in AzuraCast today.

Though the project is very different today, many of us spent time in the MLP community and hope to carry on the show's spirit. #ThankYouMLP

Today, fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic say goodbye to the show. We don't talk about it much, but that's where we come from! AzuraCast is named for Azura, the mascot of our predecessor project (Ponyville Live). We carry the spirit on in the form of our own unicorn.

When we said "soon" in the previous tweet, we actually meant "3 hours later".

The new media manager's inline file editor now has a complimentary new album art page, showing you the current album art and letting you swap it out (or clear it entirely).

Once we got started moving the Media Manager components over to Vue, we just couldn't help ourselves.

New in the Media Manager: inline renaming and editing of media tracks. A new album artwork manager is coming soon!

New in the updated Media Manager: you can select which columns to display (just like the old one), and the system will remember which columns you selected across sessions.

We're rewriting our media manager to be a single unified Vue component. It won't look very different for now, but it lets us expand and customize it much more easily. We've already put some goodies in the new version, including saving your "per page" setting across page loads.

Custom Fields can now be automatically filled in by the ID3 information in your files. Just set the "Auto Assign" ID3 attribute in the global Custom Fields administration, and if that field exists in a newly uploaded file, it will set the custom field's value automatically.

If you are encountering issues relating to either Doctrine errors (i.e. "Uncaught TypeError") or errors connecting to "http://pie-hosted.com", please update to the latest version of AzuraCast. We have released updates that fix both of these issues.

While we're always working to improve our defaults so they work on the greatest number of stations, we've introduced some new env variables you can specify in `azuracast.env` to tweak the respective settings, with these defaults:

PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=30
PHP_FPM_MAX_CHILDREN=5

Users who updated within the last day may have noticed some issues with sessions and logging in locally on their installation. We have fixed those issues as of tonight's latest version. Updating to the latest version is highly recommended.

In August, we received $6 from 2 backers. Our current balance is $43.

Top backers: @arulvakku@twitter.com, @RadioBrony@twitter.com, @RadWebHosting@twitter.com

Thank you! 🙏
https://opencollective.com/azuracast

Our lead developer is taking this week and portions of the next few weeks to work on side projects to pay basic living expenses. Support times will be longer as a result. We appreciate your patience.

For more information, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XchotRjJM9I

This project is largely the work of one developer with no corporate sponsorship or big name backers.

If you find AzuraCast helpful to you, PLEASE donate to help us keep this full-time job of a project alive:

Monthly
https://www.patreon.com/AzuraCast

One-time
https://ko-fi.com/silvereagle

Our DigitalOcean 1-Click installer has been updated to AzuraCast version 0.9.6.5, which includes our built-in FTP server, preconfigured and ready to go out of the box.

Spin up your new station today! https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/azuracast

If the update that adds FTP support causes a port conflict on your server, you can edit /var/azuracast/.env and add:

AZURACAST_FTP_PORT=2100

...then re-run the update process. This will tell AzuraCast to use another port for its own FTP server.

We're very excited to announce that AzuraCast is now available as a 1-Click application through the @digitalocean@twitter.com Marketplace. Spin up a new droplet with our 1-Click installer and have AzuraCast up and running in no time at all.

New feature: Our Docker installation now includes a built-in FTP server. Connect with your AzuraCast e-mail address and password, and you'll have FTP access to the media directories of every station your account can manage. Connection details are shown on the Media Files page.

Our Docker installation's multisite support is based on jwilder's popular nginx-proxy project (https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy), and also includes built-in automated LetsEncrypt certificate creation and renewal (via https://github.com/JrCs/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion).

One of the questions we get most frequently is how you can run other web sites (including your station's homepage) on the same server as your AzuraCast instance. We've made some changes to allow this, and set up a guide with easy instructions to set it up: https://www.azuracast.com/developers/multisite.html