StreamSera – Live Radio Player & Station Manager

StreamSera puts your radio station on your own website. Add your stream, design a player in your colors and place it anywhere – no code needed. Listeners see the song that’s playing, and you manage every station from one screen in your WordPress admin.

It works with the stream you already have: Icecast, Shoutcast, HLS and MPEG-DASH, from hosts such as AzuraCast, Radio.co, Zeno.FM or your own server.

Quick tour

Station manager

Run one station or a whole network from one place.

• Every station at a glance. See what each station is playing, how many people are listening (when your server reports it), which streams are on air and which need attention.
• Find and tidy up fast. Search by name, genre or city, filter by on air, needs attention or drafts, and publish, duplicate, move to draft or delete several stations at once.
• Backup streams. Give a station extra stream addresses; players switch over when the main one drops. Check any stream from the editor with one click.
• Song titles from the right place. StreamSera detects your server type and reads now playing from Icecast and Shoutcast status pages, or from inside the stream itself for hosts without a status page.
• Live status your way. Mark a station live or off air by hand, with a message for listeners.
• See where it’s used. Each station shows which players use it, and its page, card and now-playing shortcodes are ready to copy.

A player that looks like your station

• 5 layouts – card, hero, compact, a single “Listen live” button and a station shelf – and 5 styles in light, dark or following the visitor’s device.
• Your brand – colors, logo, font and rounded corners, with only the parts you want shown. You hear your real stream while you design it.
• Station switcher – let listeners change channel inside one player.
• Off-air fallback – loop a standby track or show a message like “Back on Monday at 8” until the live stream returns.
• Phone friendly – lock-screen and headset media controls where supported, and the player remembers each listener’s volume.
• Accessible – keyboard controls, screen-reader labels, dark mode and right-to-left language support.

Pages your listeners can bookmark

• Listen page – a full-screen player with share buttons and a station switcher. It opens in its own tab, so the music keeps playing while visitors browse your site.
• Station pages and directory – every station gets its own page, and a directory lists them all with search and genre filters.
• External players – playlist links (.m3u and .pls) for apps such as VLC.
• On-air graphics – a transparent now-playing overlay for OBS and vMix, and a plain-text feed for studio screens and signage.
• Share anywhere – paste a station page link into another WordPress site and it shows the player.

Works with your site

• Block editor – Player, Now playing, Listen button, Station and Station list blocks, plus ready-made patterns for a hero player, a sidebar box and a station landing page.
• Page builders – native widgets and modules for Elementor, Divi 4 and Divi 5; a Player element for Beaver Builder and Bricks; shortcodes for Breakdance, Oxygen and any other builder.
• Shortcodes and classic widgets – [streamsera id="12"], [streamsera_now_playing], [streamsera_listen_button], [streamsera_station] and [streamsera_stations].
• Any theme, classic or block, on single sites and multisite networks.

Easy to run

• Setup wizard – paste your stream link and get a working station and player in a few minutes.
• Dashboard – which stations are on air, what’s playing and what to set up next, with notices when something needs attention (for example a stream that won’t play on a secure site).
• Light on your stream server – your website checks what’s playing on a timer (every 15 seconds by default) and shares it with every listener, instead of every visitor asking your server.
• Export and import – move stations, players and settings to another site.
• Private by default – no WPSera analytics, no listener tracking, no cookies of its own. See External services and Privacy below.

Who it’s for

Internet and community radio, college and student stations, station networks with several channels, DJs and live shows, churches, mosques and community groups broadcasting live, and venues or event organizers with an audio stream.

Need more?

StreamSera Pro adds a show schedule with hosts, song requests and shout-outs, private listening statistics, a sticky player that can keep playing across pages, playlists and podcasts, recently played tracks, artwork lookup and more. Everything described above is free.

For developers: WP-CLI commands (wp streamsera), a REST API, PHP filters and a JavaScript API. See the FAQ for details.

External services

StreamSera does not call any service run by WPSera. It connects only to the services listed below.

1. Your stream server (the radio station’s streaming host)

• What it is and why: the Icecast, Shoutcast, HLS or DASH server whose stream addresses you enter for each station. It is needed to play the stream and to show the current song and listener count.
• When and what is sent:
  • When a visitor presses play, the visitor’s browser requests the stream (and, for HLS/DASH, the media segments and timing address named in the stream’s manifest). The stream server receives the visitor’s IP address, browser user agent and normal request headers.
  • About once a minute for each published station (while Keep it fresh when nobody listens is on, the default), while listeners are playing a station, and when you press “Detect” in the station editor, your WordPress server requests the stream’s status page or reads the first few kilobytes of the stream to get the song title. With Keep it fresh when nobody listens turned off, this only happens while someone is listening. The stream server receives your website server’s IP address and normal request headers. No visitor data is sent.
• Terms and privacy: the stream server is chosen by you and run by you or your streaming provider (for example AzuraCast, Radio.co, Zeno.FM or your own Icecast server), so its own terms of service and privacy policy apply. Check them with your provider.

2. Share buttons (X, Facebook, WhatsApp)

• What it is and why: the listen page and station pages show plain links that let a visitor share the page.
• When and what is sent: nothing is loaded from these sites when the page loads. Only when a visitor clicks a share link does their browser open the service, which receives the shared page address and title and the visitor’s normal browser data.
• X: terms of service, privacy policy.
• Facebook (Meta): terms of service, privacy policy.
• WhatsApp: terms of service, privacy policy.

All plugin scripts, styles and icons are served from your own site. The bundled hls.js and dash.js libraries contain web addresses such as XML namespace identifiers (for example http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/); these are names inside the code and are never requested. dash.js’s default time server (time.akamai.com) is turned off; clock sync uses the stream’s own manifest or server.

The optional “Powered by StreamSera” link on players is off by default and only appears if you turn it on in Settings.

Privacy

StreamSera does not record listeners: it stores no IP addresses, user names or cookies of its own, and keeps no listening statistics. To show what’s playing, your site caches metadata reported by your stream server. Stream providers and your hosting server may independently keep request logs.

StreamSera keeps a few listener preferences in the browser’s local storage, such as the volume. None of it is sent to your server or anyone else.

Credits

StreamSera bundles these open-source libraries:

• hls.js 1.7.3 – Apache License 2.0 (build/hls.js, loaded only for HLS streams; license in build/hls.js.LICENSE.txt).
• dash.js 4.7.4 – BSD 3-Clause License (build/dash.js, loaded only for MPEG-DASH streams; license in build/dash.js.LICENSE.txt).