Major update!
Although I'm going to be honest and tell you that I think this still needs a lot of polishing and usability improvements.
At the same time, I need to get this one out the door so I can focus on improving chat's responsiveness, which is becoming more and more of an issue.
Global player
- Now when you browse around the Prankcast website, you will still be able to listen to live shows without accidentally cancelling the stream.
- It sounds simple, but this was ridiculously complicated to get working.
- You can expand the player for more options and broadcast details.
- This also works for recorded showreels you listen to.
- Note that only reels support Time Seeking forward / backward. Live shows will only play live audio moving forward, to keep listeners in sync with hosts and be less confusing.
- Speaking of showreels….
Showreels
- Listen to old shows! You can find showreels under Clips on user's profile pages.
- Hosts can publish their previous Prankcast shows to make them available to listen.
- Hosts can download mp4s of past shows (if they enabled recording). This will only work for shows that used the beta broadcasting platform.
- Hosts can manage and publish showreels under Account Settings > Broadcast Settings > Manage Showreels: https://prankcast.com/app/settings/broadcast?panel=broadcast&page=1&sort=date&dir=down&q=#broadcast
- I will be adding a way to upload old non-Prankcast audio files to Showreels in the very near future.
Broadcast titles and other info
- Broadcasts can now be titled and given a description.
- Co-hosts and graphics coming soon.
- If you use Rocket Broadcaster or other third party apps you cannot currently preset your broadcast title.
- But you can edit it while you are live right on the chat page (click the edit icon near the broadcast stats when they show up).
- I'll improve this in the future.
Web broadcaster improvements
- If you have already saved some upcoming broadcasts, you can now choose them at the point of broadcast (web app only).
- You'll see a list of any unaired broadcasts in the web editor when you trigger it.
- You can also add broadcast details at run time.
Remote Player Builder
- I added a simple form to the remote player settings, to make it easier to build and preview your own embeddable remote player.
- You can build your remote player here: https://prankcast.com/app/settings/broadcast?panel=useriframe
Other misc items
- Fixed giphy search bug that was making some strings not get searched properly
- fixed notification verification.
- There's a new visual banner that takes over a page's header while a show is live. If you send someone to your page, there's now a giant banner with an unmissable play button. You can X it off to access the normal profile header.
- The save reminder warning that appears in the header in the accounts settings section is now clickable as an additional save button, to save you time.
Up Next:
- Making chat go real time!