Erplayer – Radio Player for Elementor supporting Icecast, Shoutcast and more

Erplayer is a WordPress plugin created by Pro.Radio that adds a Radio Player widget to Elementor, to reproduce the sound of any web radio channel and display the song titles of any compatible source. It can also, optionally, fetch and display the artwork of the songs.

Fully documented

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Compatibility

The radio player is compatible with any MP3 or AAC stream, and can read song titles and authors from the most popular formats as:

• Shoutcast V2
• Icecast
• Radio.co
• Airtime and Airtime Pro
• Live365 [attention, you need a premium account!]
• Text feed “artist – title”
• Any ICY audio header (default streaming titles)

4 Design Options

• Radio player card See demo
• Radio player bar compact See demo
• Radio player bar full-width See demo
• Minimal player button See demo

Position Options

This player can be used with 3 positioning options:

• Inline: the player appears in the position you place it
• Fixed modal window: display the player in a corner, with a toggle button
• Popup: keep the music playing while browsing the website

Design Options

Customise any design aspect of the player:

• Unlimited amount of radio channels
• Font: choose any google font, size, letter-spacing and color
• Background colors
• Background opacity
• Background image
• Layout
• Toggle button design, colour and look
• Paddings, size, corners, shadow, margins, aligments
• Functionality options
• Starting volume
• Volume and playlist show/hide
• Positioning
• Optionally fetch album artwork and use it as background for the player

Why choosing Erplayer

This radio player comes from 10 years of experience in the development of radio players for WordPress, and has the highest compatibility with any popular radio streaming format, not only ShoutCast v2 and Icecast, but also vendor formats from independent companies.

The unprecedented flexibility makes of this Elementor radio player the most flexible radio player for any website, and the popup option is a key feature that allows your visitor to listen to the music while browsing the website (desktop only, as there is no such thing as popups for mobile).

Its incredible design customisability will leave you astonished and makes it the most adaptable radio player on the market, perfect for any brand, style, music genre and website.

Requirements

This player requires the latest version of WordPress and Elementor, PHP7.3, and a valid radio stream. Please notice that you need your own stream, as this is a radio player made to reproduce the audio from your pre-existing streaming provider.

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Need help to create a radio station?

Check our guide: How to start a radio station

Changelog
1.2.2 [2022 07 23]
[x] Fixed "artwork" being fetched when not required

1.2.1 [2022 05 31]
[x] Fixed inline image for certain themes breaking alignments 

1.2.0 [2022 05 31]
[x] Update for Elementor compatibility

1.1.0 [2021 10 08]
[x] meta_box.php:706 added $conditions = ''; to prevent notifications in PHP when unset
[x] Fixed bug that prevented artist and title to change when the text was scrolling
[x] Several improvements to the code for WP 5.8 and PHP 7.4

1.0.9 [2021 07 20]
[x] Updates for Elementor 3.3

1.0.8 [2021 06 18]
[x] Removed marquee scroll from song title because was conflicting with other design functions.
[x] Modified proxy call structure
[x] Added better support for WP 5.7.2
[x] Changed live with on in admin side script

1.0.7 [2020 08 13]
[x] WordPress 5.5. update

1.0.6 [2020 04 21]
[x] Added support for shoutca.st icecast formatting

1.0.5 [2020 03 27]
[x] Better cover title recognition

1.0.4 [2020 03 19]
[x] Updated Metaboxes component
[x] Updated frontend javascript, merged files, added "use strict" 
[x] Texted replace of file_get_contents -> impracticable route