Hey guys,
This is just a heads up on some changes we’re making. We are no longer going to be sporting a live player 24/7. The people over at www.4playsounds.com have been kind enough to play music for us throughout the days and nights. But the truth is we are not streaming all the time. So no sense in having a player just sitting there with no tunes to be heard. So we are moving it.

Poof its gone!

So, that’s that. What’s that? How are we going to listen to the live shows? I’ll tell you how. I forgot to mention. The live chat is also moving. Lets just say the live player and the live chat are moving in together. Makes sense right? They work so well together. This is what we are getting.

Pretty slick right? From top to bottom. We gotta brand this thing ,so up top, we have the logo. We are using the two shades of burn orange present throughout our brand. Then we have the same player that we all know and love. It’s set to auto start so as soon as the page loads we hear the music. Below the player we have our song data. We added an additional line so we have more space for lengthy song titles. We can also include some stats if we choose.

Moving right along. It’s the chat box. The script we are using for the live chat is actually a shoutbox. Its main purpose is for viewers interested in stopping by a website to say what’s up. But we found that it works just the same if we use it as a chat box in this context.

And finally in the footer, just the basic copyright. Blah, blah, blah. But yah, Live chat and live player together at last. Makes sense.

So how are we to get to this player? Where’s the link? Here’s our plan. When ever we go live, 30 minutes before we are going to flick the switch to a special graphic that is unique for each DJs show. But don’t worry you will always find it in the same spot. Here we see the graphic for Thursday night’s The Joe Show.

Pretty cool huh? When you click on the “Listen Live” graphic a pop-up window will appear with the new player.

Another reason we think this is a better idea is that we want honest clicks. Beforehand when someone jumped on the site, it was hard to tell if they were listening or not. they could easily just hit the pause button and our stats would count that as a listeners, when they weren’t even listening. I say honest clicks because when someone clicks the “Listen Live” link, we feel they really want to listen all while the stats stay accurate. If they wanna stop listening, they can just close the player’s pop-up window. Easy.

Also don’t be to weirded out if you see a banner ad from time to time. We gotta pay the bills. We’ll make sure it’s relative to our mission. It’ll be all good that way

So that’s it. We’re gonna test this out for a few months and see how she drives. We would love your feedback. Please, let us know. Comment below.