Overview

Kast – Extraordinary SHOUTcast HTML5 Sticky Radio Player for your website
(jQuery and Zepto Plugin).

Allows you to stream your live radio station to your web visitors on Desktops, Tablets and Mobile devices.
SHOUTcast exclusive, Colorful, Responsive design, Fully-customizable, Production-ready, Mobile-compatible, Touch-friendly, Retina-ready and more.
Following Google’s Material Design guidelines.

Update: Spotify API has been replaced with lastFM API to fix images issue.

Features

• Pure HTML5: HTML5 only audio player
• All SHOUTcast Versions: Plays any SHOUTcast station
• SID: Supports multiple streams from a single server
• Multi-format Audio Player: MP3, OGG, AAC, AAC+ (aacPlus)
• SHOUTcast Exclusive: for SHOUTcast servers only, made with love
• Sticky Player: Runs peacefully at your web browser corner.
• Popup Player
• Current and Played Information: Displays various information and stats about a SHOUTcast server (server title, current listeners, genre, track title, artist name and more)
• Album and Artist Artworks: Smart album artwork retrieving from the biggest music database (using lastFM API), or Artist artwork as a fallback
• Mobile-compatible with MobileCare: Kast is memory-efficient, runs perfectly on Mobile devices (Premium feature)
• Responsive Design: Ultra Responsive Design with Mobile-first approach
• Material Design: Kast UI Following Google’s Material Design guidelines
• Colorful: All Material Design Colors (Red, Pink, Purple, Deep Purple, Indigo, Blue, Light Blue, Cyan, Teal, Green, Light Green, Lime, Yellow, Amber, Orange, Deep Orange, Brown, Grey, Blue Grey, Carolina, Black, White)
• Light and Dark Themes: Material Light Theme and Material Dark Theme
• Dynamic Theme, Colors and Contrast: Dynamically changes colors and theme based on the dominated colors (color palette) from the artwork image with also color contrast check for text colors (light or dark).
• Anywhere: You can insert it anywhere into your web page (Non-sticky).
• Cross-browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge, IE
• Touch-friendly and Retina-ready
• Independent player, just jQuery
• Continuous and LiveStream play
• SHOUTcast Direct Metadata via DNAS JSONP Support
• Multi Language Support
• HTTPS (SSL) Support: Stream your radio station on your SSL secured website (HTTPS)
• Offline Detection: Display message on SHOUTcast server offline or Internet connection loss.
• Performance-focused: Completely written in plain JavaScript.
• Easy-to-use: Meant for everyone
• Highly customizable: Easy to customize and fully customizable
• Developer API: Rich API and events for Developers
• Extra: Volume controls (Mute / Unmute), minimize and maximize the player and more

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Live Preview

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Usage

First make sure jQuery is included, If not, include it

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>

Then include Kast files

<link href="path/to/kast.min.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="path/to/kast.min.js"></script>

Call it

<script>
    $.kast({
       host: "myshoutcastserver.com",
       port: 8080,
       version: 2
    })
</script>

Recommended: include Google’s Roboto font

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">

Options

Customize Kast just the way you like it, Usage:

$.kast({
   host: "...",
   port: ...,
   optionName: ...    
})

• host: String Server IP or domain name Required
• port: Integer Server port (80 by default)
• protocol: String Server protocol (“http” by default)
• version: Integer SHOUTcast version (2 by default) (1 or 2)
• sid: Integer SHOUTcast V2 server stream ID * If you have multiple stations * (1 by default)
• statsPath: String SHOUTcast V2 path to stats (“stats” by default)
• playedPath: String Path to played list (“played” by default)
• directStreamURL: Boolean or String Add direct audio stream URL (false by default)
• ui: String User Interface (“colored” by default) (“transparent” or “colored”)
• theme: String Material Design theme (“light” by default) (“dark”, “light” or “dynamic”)
• colors: String or Object Material Design colors ({primary: “cyan”, accent: “yellow”} by default) ({primary: “color name”, accent: “color name”} or “dynamic”)
  Color names: red, pink, purple, deep purple, indigo, blue, light blue, cyan, teal, green, light green, lime, yellow, amber, orange, deep orange, brown, grey, blue Grey, carolina, black, white
  Note: Carolina color it’s an extra color
• startTemplate: String Starting template (“maximized” by default) (“minimized” or “maximized”)
• position: String Player sticky position (“right” by default) (“right” or “left”)
• container: String Player container element, class or ID. (“body” by default)
• autoPlay: Boolean Autoplay radio (false by default) (true or false)
• autoUpdate: Boolean or String Auto update info * Current playing info, played list, server stats * (true by default) (true, false or “all”)
  Note: “all” Auto updates all the information including server stats (current listeners, etc..)
• artwork: Boolean or Array Retrieve album artwork (or artist artwork as a fallback) using lastFM API or set a custom image (true by default) (true, false or [“https://my-website-or-some-cors-website.com/my-custom-artwork.jpg”])
  Note about custom image: It’s recommended to add 64×64 (small) image with custom image array. i.e [“images/video-games-music.jpg’, ‘images/video-games-music-optional-64×64.jpg”]
• statusBar: Boolean Show status bar at the top of the player (true by default) (true or false)
• minimizeMaximize: Boolean Show minimize / maximize button in the status bar (true by default) (true or false)
• muteUnmute: Boolean Show mute / unmute button in the status bar (true by default) (true or false)
• startMuted: Boolean Start audio muted (false by default) (true or false)
• serverInfo: Boolean, String or Array Show server info / stats in the status bar or set a custom text (false by default) (false, “My Custom text”, [“servertitle”, “servergenre”, etc..])
  SHOUTcast V1 server info: “currentlisteners”, “streamstatus”, “peaklisteners”, “maxlisteners”, “uniquelisteners”, “bitrate”, “songtitle”
  SHOUTcast V2 server info: “averagetime”, “backupstatus”, “bitrate”, “content”, “currentlisteners”, “maxlisteners”, “peaklisteners”, “servergenre”, “servertitle”, “serverurl”, “songtitle”, “streamhits”, “streamlisted”, “streamlistederror”, “streampath”, “streamstatus”, “streamuptime”, “uniquelisteners”, “version”
• played: Boolean Show played list (true by default) (true or false)
• currentTrack: Boolean or String Show current track title or set a custom text (true by default) (true, false, “My Track Title”, etc..)
• currentArtist: Boolean or String Show current artist name or set a custom text (true by default) (true, false, “My Artist Name”, etc..)
• playedTracks: Boolean Show SHOUTcast V2 played track titles (true by default) (true or false)
• playedArtists: Boolean Show SHOUTcast V2 played artist names (true by default) (true or false)
• offlineCheck: Boolean Show message on SHOUTcast server offline or Internet connection loss in the status bar (true by default) (true or false)
• mobileCare: Boolean or Array Lightweight player for Mobile Devices (true by default) (true, false, [“low”], [“medium”], [“high”], [“very high”] or [“ultra”])
  Note: Kast is always responsive design, but MobileCare is different, you set it by selecting a grade from low to ultra (modes), and If you want to customize the max-width * when mobileCare get triggered * set [“medium”, “800px”]. The default max-width is 599px
  
  1. false: What you see in Desktop, is what you see in Mobile
  2. low: (true equal low) Autoplay and offlineCheck will be disabled, Kast will always start minimized and lite auto update
  3. medium: Medium quality artwork, Server stats update in the status bar will be disabled, Dymanic theme and colors will be dropped to fixed theme/colors and lite auto update level 2
  4. high: Artwork and played list will be disabled
  5. very high: Auto update and minimize/maximize will be disabled
  6. ultra: Just a play/pause button. Takes only 3MB of RAM
• language: Object Set text * for Multi-language * ({offlineText: “Temporarily Offline”, playedText: “Played”, unknownTrackText: “Unknown Track”, unknownArtistText: “Unknown Artist”} by default)
• irrelevantWords: Boolean or Array Let Kast be aware of some irrelavent words inside the current song title to help Kast get the right artwork from lastFM API ([“feat.”, “ft.”, “Feat.”, “Ft.”] by default) (false, [“blah”, “blah.com”, “mumbo jumbo”], etc..)
• skipInfo: Boolean or Array of objects Skip info based on track names or artist names. i.e. skip ad titles (false by default) (false, [{track: ‘track name to skip’, artist: ‘Artist name to skip’}, {track: ‘another track to skip’}], etc..)
• defaultArtwork: Boolean or Array Set default album artwork, It shows when artwork not found. (false by default) (false, [“https://my-website-or-some-cors-website.com/my-default-artwork.jpg”])
  Note about default image: It’s recommended to add 64×64 (small) image with default image array. i.e [“images/my-default-artwork.jpg’, ‘images/my-default-artwork-optional-64×64.jpg”]
• customCheckerInterval: Boolean or Integer Set custom stats checker interval in ms (false by default) (false, 7000, 10000, etc..)
• popup: Boolean Enable Kast popup player (false by default) (false, true)
• popupCSSLink: String Kast CSS link for Kast popup player (’’ by default) (‘http://to-kast-css-link-file.css’)
• popupWidth: Integer Set popup player width (380 by default)
• popupHeight: Integer Set popup player height (570 by default)
• overHTTPS: Boolean Stream secured SHOUTcast audio for secured HTTPS websites (experimental) (false by default) (true or false)
  Note: Currently SHOUTcast serve audio only through an HTTP protocol. And HTTPS page should only have HTTPS content, with overHTTPS, you serve your web visitors a secured stream by using a secured HTTPS proxy.
• direct: Boolean Fetch SHOUTcast metadata direclty from the servers (false by default) (true or false)
  Note: Supported from >=2.2 DNAS via JSONP.
• betaProxies: Boolean Use beta proxies to fetch SHOUTcast metadata (false by default) (true or false)
• continuous: Boolean Enable continuous play (Play/Pause radio) (true by default) (true or false)

API

Kast Developer API

• $.kast(); Start with default options
• $.kast(“play”); Play audio
• $.kast(“play”, true); Reload audio and play it
• $.kast(“pause”); Pause audio
• $.kast(“stop”); Stop audio
• $.kast(“mute”); Mute audio
• $.kast(“unmute”); Unmute audio
• $.kast(“minimize”); Minimize player
• $.kast(“maximize”); Maximize player
• $.kast(“stats”); Update the current playing info
• $.kast(“stats”, callback); Access to the current playing info
• $.kast(“played”); Update the current played info
• $.kast(“played”, callback); Access to the current played info
• $.kast(“autoUpdate”, “all”); Enable auto update including server stats
• $.kast(“autoUpdate”, true); Enable auto update
• $.kast(“autoUpdate”, false); Disable auto update
• $.kast(“destroy”); Destroy plugin instance

Events

Kast Developer Events, Usage:

$.kast({
   host: "...",
   port: ...,
   eventName: callback    
})

onReady: callback function when Kast is ready

onAudioLoad: callback function when audio is loaded. @return HTMLAudioElement

onMobile: callback function when Kast is running on Mobile device

onPlay: callback function when audio is playing. @return HTMLAudioElement

onPause: callback function when audio is paused. @return HTMLAudioElement

onStop: callback function when audio is stopped. @return HTMLAudioElement

onMute: callback function on audio mute. @return HTMLAudioElement

onUnmute: callback function on audio unmute. @return HTMLAudioElement

onMinimize: callback function on player minimize

onMaximize: callback function on player maximize

onUpdate: callback function on current / played info update. @return stats

onUpdateAll: callback function on server stats in the status bar update * every 8s/12s/16s . @return stats

onOffline: callback function on offline. @return stats

onOnline: callback function on back online. @return stats

onCurrentArtwork: callback function on current artwork update. @return current (Album / Artist) artwork image

onPlayedArtworks: callback function on played artworks update. @return played (Album / Artist) artwork image. * will be called for each of one *

onCurrentInfo: callback function on current playing info change. @return currentTrack and currentArtist

onPlayedInfo: callback function on played info change. @return playedTrack and playedArtist. * will be called for each of one *

onDynamicColors: callback function on dynamic colors change. @return primaryColor and accentColor

onDynamicColorsContrast: callback function on dynamic colors contrast change. @return primaryColorContrast and accentColorContrast

onDynamicTheme: callback function on dynamic them change. @return current theme

Audio Formats Support

• MP3 (audio/mpeg): Chrome (Yes), Firefox (Yes), Safari (Yes), Opera (Yes), IE9+ (Yes), Edge (Yes), Android Browser (Yes), iOS Safari (Yes)
• OGG (audio/ogg): Chrome (Yes), Firefox (Yes), Safari (No), Opera (Yes), IE (No), Edge (No), Android Browser (Yes), iOS Safari (No)
• AAC (audio/aac): Chrome (Yes), Firefox (Yes), Safari (Yes), Opera (Yes), IE9+ (Yes), Edge (Yes), Android Browser (Yes), iOS Safari (Yes)
• AAC+ (audio/aacp): Desktop Chrome Only (Yes)

Before You Buy *IMPORTANT

• Not a Music Player: It’s SHOUTcast Radio Player, it’s not designed for Music/MP3 playlists
• SHOUTcast Only: Icecast and other streaming media servers are not supported
• Multiple Servers are not supported yet
• About Continuous Play: Continuous Play is for Play/Pause or Play/Stop, It’s not for Gapless Radio Playback, so when you navigate from one page to another, Kast reloads itself. If you want Gapless Radio Playback then you should use AJAX/Dynamic navigation system
• Autoplay on iOS isn’t supported
• Direct: If your SHOUTcast server is V2+ and support direct connection, enable direct.
• SHOUTcast V1 Streams unplayable on Chrome 55.x / Safari 10: SHOUTcast V1 servers are over 10 years old, they are running on deprecated HTTP 0.9. These modern browsers are breaking the ability for the outdated SHOUTcast V1.x servers to be played with HTML5. Non-Port 80 V1 streams are no longer playable. Upgrading to the latest SHOUTcast V2 should solve your problem.
  Read more: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=669800
  https://www.internet-radio.com/community/threads/latest-chrome-browser-update-v55-breaks-shoutcast-v1-x-html5-players.27560/
• <![CDAT.. Bug: If Kast is showing these texts, then switch to beta proxies to fix this problem for now.
  Update: Fixed in the new Kast 1.3

Before You Ask IMPORTANT

• Please provide your SHOUTcast server address.
• We don’t do custom projects.
• You can use/install it like any jQuery/WordPress plugin: If this is your first time, then please check basic YouTube videos on how to use/install jQuery/WordPress plugins.
• No ETA for the next versions.
• English only.

Browser Compatibility

Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 9 and above (Basically any HTML5 web browser)

Changelog

v1.3.1 - Spotify API has been replaced with lastFM API
v1.3 - New features, new options and bug fixes (Read changelog.txt for more info)
v1.2 - New features, new options and improvements (Read changelog.txt for more info)
v1.1.2 - Bug fixes and a new feature (Read changelog.txt for more info)
v1.1.1 - SHOUTcast V1 played list are now supported and Minor bug fixes
v1.1.0 - The biggest update yet (Read UPGRADE.txt !Important)
v1.0.2 - Build 10250: Bug fixes and improvements
v1.0.2: Improvements and a new feature (Read changelog.txt for more info)
v1.0.1 - Build 10150: Fixed cross-browser support
v1.0.1: Improvements and a new feature (Read changelog.txt for more info)
v1.0.0: Initial release

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