Calls - Public Playlists Now Available

[TheTntExpert29]

This is great if you on a desktop. Not so much on a smartphone. Wish I could use this playlist in the scannerradio or broadcasity app. The browser player doesn't work well on my android and only plays for about 1 mins with screen off before it kills it. I tried different browsers, they all kill the player within a min of the screen off. Also it doesn't show and player or meta tags. The player disappears when not playing and the whole thing just stops after a min.. Anyone know a work around to keep it playing on a smartphone? I really want to listen to a Public playlist on my android.

Same with on my Iphone. Would be cool to listen to playlists on mobile devices like how we can listen to scanners.

 

[GILLIG40]

Same with on my Iphone. Would be cool to listen to playlists on mobile devices like how we can listen to scanners.

On an iPhone go to Settings - Display & Brightness - Auto-Lock and set to never.

 

[AB5ID]

This is great if you on a desktop. Not so much on a smartphone. Wish I could use this playlist in the scannerradio or broadcasity app. The browser player doesn't work well on my android and only plays for about 1 mins with screen off before it kills it. I tried different browsers, they all kill the player within a min of the screen off. Also it doesn't show and player or meta tags. The player disappears when not playing and the whole thing just stops after a min.. Anyone know a work around to keep it playing on a smartphone? I really want to listen to a Public playlist on my android.

Turn off battery optimization for the browser you are using, also lock the browser app to run in the background.

 

[David628]

Thanks for implementing this! The Dallas Public Safety Dispatch Playlist @blantonl posted works great on PC and MAC web browsers.

 

[norwichfeeder]

Turn off battery optimization for the browser you are using, also lock the browser app to run in the background.

Yeah I tried all that. No go. It should just be easy and simple. One shouldn't have to do all that. Just want it simple, like a scanner app. Like OpenMhz. Just share, click, and it works. Guess I will just wait till the Public playlist is put into a scanner like app and the kinks are worked out. It's working sweet on desktop.

 

[JasonCox]

Speaking as an iOS developer, the issue that some of you are running into with browsers on mobile (both iOS and Android) is that the player that Broadcastify is using has to constantly request updates from Broadcastify's servers via JavaScript calls. When you background your browser, these calls are going to get paused because, let's just say it'd be bad if your browser could just randomly fire up and start making JS calls in the background. I mean Google's ad business would love it, but us consumers and govt. regulatory bodies, not so much.

There's no real work around for this (besides always keeping your phone unlocked and your browser in the foreground) as it's intended behavior.

That being said, if Lindsay wants to really bloat his AWS bill and start manually merging playlist calls into a live streaming playlists, that'd get handed off just like any other kind of streaming media. ;-)

 

[Napalm]

Speaking as an iOS developer, the issue that some of you are running into with browsers on mobile (both iOS and Android) is that the player that Broadcastify is using has to constantly request updates from Broadcastify's servers via JavaScript calls. When you background your browser, these calls are going to get paused because, let's just say it'd be bad if your browser could just randomly fire up and start making JS calls in the background. I mean Google's ad business would love it, but us consumers and govt. regulatory bodies, not so much.

There's no real work around for this (besides always keeping your phone unlocked and your browser in the foreground) as it's intended behavior.

That being said, if Lindsay wants to really bloat his AWS bill and start manually merging playlist calls into a live streaming playlists, that'd get handed off just like any other kind of streaming media. ;-)

From reading a few threads there are plans to do something akin to this.

I have some luck with it keeping alive when the screen is off but usually I just keep the phone open. Hard when it's in a pocket but eh

 

[ChrisABQ]

Liat for Albuquerque is ready to go.

 

[Napalm]

Lindsay: Do you think there should be some kind of naming convention? I put the County name and State in my public playlist, since there's multiple Lake Counties in the US. I see a few other folks did the same thing as well. But some did not.

 

[AB5ID]

Sort by last "Seen" activity doesn't seem to be working correctly.

 

[techlogix]

Feature Request:
Can you add a left/right audio balance slider on the calls playlist page like you have on the feed dashboards? That way I can have multiple playlists open and playing at the same time. 1 playlist goes to the left speaker and the other playlist goes to the right speaker.

 

[blantonl]

Feature Request:
Can you add a left/right audio balance slider on the calls playlist page like you have on the feed dashboards? That way I can have multiple playlists open and playing at the same time. 1 playlist goes to the left speaker and the other playlist goes to the right speaker.

Ask, and you shall receive! This was an excellent suggestion and I tackled it this morning, in between arguing with pissed off Broadcastify customers 😜 This feature is actually super handy for me as well for my use cases. It actually required a bit more changes on the infrastructure side because of... technical stuff.... but, it's rolled out. Refresh your browsers.

Next up on the list are temporary lockouts for playlist groups and saving volumes, speeds, and pans to the playlist so they are restored.

 

[Napalm]

Ask, and you shall receive! This was an excellent suggestion and I tackled it this morning, in between arguing with pissed off Broadcastify customers 😜 This feature is actually super handy for me as well for my use cases. It actually required a bit more changes on the infrastructure side because of... technical stuff.... but, it's rolled out. Refresh your browsers.

Next up on the list are temporary lockouts for playlist groups and saving volumes, speeds, and pans to the playlist so they are restored.

It's working great. I have two playlists right now one in each earphone. Temp lockouts would be great. This is really getting good, L.

 

[billpritjr]

@blantonl you are simply awesome. Thanks for working on this. When the ability to listen to our "personal" feeds is available in Broadcastify mobile app, please let us know.

 

[JasonCox]

When the ability to listen to our "personal" feeds is available in Broadcastify mobile app, please let us know.

IIRC, the official Broadcastify app has been deprecated.

 

[billpritjr]

IIRC, the official Broadcastify app has been deprecated.

(insert feeling sad emoji)

 

[Deziel0495]

I know playlists can feature frequencies and talkgroups from multiple systems, but it would be neat to see (on the systemwide calls page for example) a button to show all the public playlists associated with a particular system.

 

[blantonl]

I know playlists can feature frequencies and talkgroups from multiple systems, but it would be neat to see (on the systemwide calls page for example) a button to show all the public playlists associated with a particular system.

That could eventually be 100's of playlists, given the example of Ohio and Michigan in the United States. I'm not sure that's feasible or even something I'd want to do.

 

[rjdj2000]

Have a few playlists made for Node 231 - Cortland County, they can be made public.

 

[One13Truck]

we have to release the API first. We're working on it.,

Any hopes the Broadcastify app gets revived and the ability to play our calls playlists on it? I still use the app daily for the regular feed monitoring until future iOS releases break it. Being able to flip to one of the calls playlists I created would be awesome.