What DJ panel do people use today?

[Florx]

Hi there,

Calling all DJs and website owners!

What DJ panel do you use, and why - what features are the bits that make you want to use it?

Also, are there any features you wish it had?

Thanks,
Jake.

[Irrorate]

I don't use it personally, but the popular one these days seems to be radiPanel. It's got different usergroup categories, easily editable, etc. radiPanel is more of a staff panel than just a DJ panel.

[LMS16]

This sounds to me that he wants OUR ideas for HIS panel lol :)

I want a section that can fetch radio password and show it guests! :) lol oj :) radipanel is just fine :) just needs a theme system

kthnx

Lew.

[Florx]

This sounds to me that he wants OUR ideas for HIS panel lol :)

I want a section that can fetch radio password and show it guests! :) lol oj :) radipanel is just fine :) just needs a theme system

kthnx

Lew.

Indeed, and anybody who remembers me from about 2 years ago will know that I regularly used to release scripts I wrote for free.

That's what I am planning to do again!

[Irrorate]

This sounds to me that he wants OUR ideas for HIS panel lol :)

I want a section that can fetch radio password and show it guests! :) lol oj :) radipanel is just fine :) just needs a theme system

kthnx

Lew.
Indeed he does, but at least he's tailoring it to our needs and not just creating it without any primary research ;)


Indeed, and anybody who remembers me from about 2 years ago will know that I regularly used to release scripts I wrote for free.

That's what I am planning to do again!
Nice. Make it original, I like to use things that're original than variations of something that gets released every few weeks!

I would recommend creating your permissions using a bitfield system (like vBulletin), I find these more efficient when checking if a permission is true!

[gangstaagent1]

I used to use RadiPanel. It's not a bad panel :P You have a section for news and also events. You get management sections, you can customize what users see in the bars. It's quite a god panel.

[Florx]

Indeed he does, but at least he's tailoring it to our needs and not just creating it without any primary research ;)


Nice. Make it original, I like to use things that're original than variations of something that gets released every few weeks!

I would recommend creating your permissions using a bitfield system (like vBulletin), I find these more efficient when checking if a permission is true!

Awesome advice, thanks for that! I just checked into bitfields (I'd heard of them and tried to work them out before but failed) and they are fantastically easy to do! I will be using them for the panel!

Jake.

[Moh]

We use a highly edited version of RadiPanel :)

[Irrorate]

Awesome advice, thanks for that! I just checked into bitfields (I'd heard of them and tried to work them out before but failed) and they are fantastically easy to do! I will be using them for the panel!

Jake.
I love bitfields. If you need an overview of them let me know, though they are pretty easy. It uses binary to check if the permission is true and uses 2^x to make sure each permission has a unique value.
I prefer this method because the only thing you need to actually store is the permission value (total of all permissions) and all permissions work fine!

If it's just a DJ panel, make sure it only contains DJ stuff ~ staff panels should contain different categories for different staff teams (events, djs, media, etc).

[peteyt]

To me I'd love a DJ Panel that is the following



Easy to customise - e.g. choose layouts, designs etc without having to know how to code, edit etc - Would be handy to have some Non Habbo designs - some DJ Panels are based on Habbo - would be handy for something that would allow non Habbo stations to use them.
Presenter logs - I'd really like an advanced log system that can log who goes on air - In other words I can see that at 6.30 am the "Breakfast Show" connected and Disconnected at 10am - this would allow me to easily see who is doing their shows and who isn't.
A decent booking off system - e.g. presenter can't do a show - fills in info - other presenter puts down they can cover for them - I know a lot of habbo based stations have people booking slots each week but most non habbo online radio stations use a fixed schedule with the same people each week - a lot easier to manage and handy for listeners to remember.
Some come with it - but a kicker to log and kick the source aka if you have an auto system running is handy - it can be done without having to give the password.

[Florx]

I love bitfields. If you need an overview of them let me know, though they are pretty easy. It uses binary to check if the permission is true and uses 2^x to make sure each permission has a unique value.
I prefer this method because the only thing you need to actually store is the permission value (total of all permissions) and all permissions work fine!

If it's just a DJ panel, make sure it only contains DJ stuff ~ staff panels should contain different categories for different staff teams (events, djs, media, etc).

Thanks for the offer, I think I've got the hang of it :)

I think I will just start with a DJ panel for the moment, then create modules later on that people can download and just add to it to make it a staff panel, but one thing at once :P


To me I'd love a DJ Panel that is the following



Easy to customise - e.g. choose layouts, designs etc without having to know how to code, edit etc - Would be handy to have some Non Habbo designs - some DJ Panels are based on Habbo - would be handy for something that would allow non Habbo stations to use them.
Presenter logs - I'd really like an advanced log system that can log who goes on air - In other words I can see that at 6.30 am the "Breakfast Show" connected and Disconnected at 10am - this would allow me to easily see who is doing their shows and who isn't.
A decent booking off system - e.g. presenter can't do a show - fills in info - other presenter puts down they can cover for them - I know a lot of habbo based stations have people booking slots each week but most non habbo online radio stations use a fixed schedule with the same people each week - a lot easier to manage and handy for listeners to remember.
Some come with it - but a kicker to log and kick the source aka if you have an auto system running is handy - it can be done without having to give the password.


Brilliant suggestions, I was planning presenter logs and song logs (so you can see what songs have been played) and also a kick source button for admins. +REP

[Irrorate]

I do think a theme/templating system would make it up there with radiPanel and many others. The question you have to ask yourself is:

"What makes users want to use my panel over anyone else's? What does it have to offer that others can't?"

Add a plugin system to make it easily customisable.

Which MySQL driver are you using? I would recommend MySQLi because of prepared statements and OOP... and anyone who doesn't have the MySQLi driver should really update ;)

[peteyt]

If someo could help me set up a logging system of some kind to work out who goes on air and who doesn't it would help me so much. I'm using RadiPanel but it doesn't offer it.

[Moh]

If you want some panel feature ideas, here are some of ours =]

- More advanced user list (Some staff may have more than one job)
- Infraction System with auto infract
- DJ Profile Pictures
- Report a DJ
- Ranks (Most listeners & most shows)
- Shoutbox
- Leave feature
- Rules (Edited via Admin)
- Announcement
- Staff List Manager (Can add manually or fetch from a group)
- Timezones for timetable
- DJ of the week
- Logs (Login, Action, Slow bookings)
- Manage Job Applications (Add fields etc..)
- Alert
- Add donator to donator page

That's about it I think

[Irrorate]

If you want some panel feature ideas, here are some of ours =]

- More advanced user list (Some staff may have more than one job)
- Infraction System with auto infract
- DJ Profile Pictures
- Report a DJ
- Ranks (Most listeners & most shows)
- Shoutbox
- Leave feature
- Rules (Edited via Admin)
- Announcement
- Staff List Manager (Can add manually or fetch from a group)
- Timezones for timetable
- DJ of the week
- Logs (Login, Action, Slow bookings)
- Manage Job Applications (Add fields etc..)
- Alert
- Add donator to donator page

That's about it I think

I like these but remember it's only a DJ panel, not a staff panel. This'd suggest it's used by DJs only (which is why I'm thinking about omitting Donator from that list).

I was thinking last night of adding some kind of ranking system... the peak listener amount a user gains (perhaps on a graph that logs the peak listener per show). Also logs on how many shows a DJ has done per week, etc.

[peteyt]

Glad you liked my ideas - I've a few more.

I like your song log one - how about something that can detect multiple plays e.g. can see that one was played by more and can automatically create a chart - maybe even some code - that way you could read the chart out on air - have your own website chart but also use the code to put it on your site, form etc. I don't think its possible but could there be a way of doing something similar email wise - e.g. something that could work out how many times songs where requested.

A new ideas I've thought of is a VIP like account - If you could intergrate stuff into the panel - as well as logging graphs and stuff, you could then have VIP accounts - if your selling advertisement space these could be used by those on the deal - some advertisers might want to know regulary how well your doing and this way they could have acess to the information regulary.

[Irrorate]

Glad you liked my ideas - I've a few more.

I like your song log one - how about something that can detect multiple plays e.g. can see that one was played by more and can automatically create a chart - maybe even some code - that way you could read the chart out on air - have your own website chart but also use the code to put it on your site, form etc. I don't think its possible but could there be a way of doing something similar email wise - e.g. something that could work out how many times songs where requested.

A new ideas I've thought of is a VIP like account - If you could intergrate stuff into the panel - as well as logging graphs and stuff, you could then have VIP accounts - if your selling advertisement space these could be used by those on the deal - some advertisers might want to know regulary how well your doing and this way they could have acess to the information regulary.

Nice ideas.

I was also thinking about graphs also. You should do listener peak graphs.
Something else is something that's never been done before as far as I know. If you provide some analysis of songs on air, it can give DJs an insight into what songs are most popularly requested.
Also, on the request form you'll no doubt have a Request option. With this request option, make it simple.

-Name
-Artist
-Song

With this, you can smarten out the request form and you can prevent duplicate songs from showing. For example, instead of having:
User #1 - Justin Bieber - Somethingsomething
User #2 - Justin Bieber - Somethingsomething
User #3 - Justin Bieber - Somethingsomething

You can have:
(3) User #1 - Justin Bieber - Somethingsomething

Where the (3) denotes how many times the song has been requested.

[peteyt]

What about something for reciving info from a song - for example sometimes when they play songs on radio they try and give out information about it - and maybe news - so something that could maybe grab information could be handy but maybe google would be easier.

I've some other ideas though.

(1) A news feed - that could use sites, maybe rss feeds to get news - so lets say the presenter does a news section on there show they can get all the top feeds all in one place.
(2) I know a site that had a service, can't remember its name - but could be used for generating fake requests with names and maybe even shoutouts - means if no requests are coming through, or you have technical problems, you can make it sound like people are still sending stuff in - sometimes users can tell if your trying to make stuff up.
(3) Also for my station in the future i plan to get like as text like service - if there was away to intergrate that service into a dj panel it would be handy - but possibly hard.

[HotelUser]

Well--I'm (obviously) not using one at the moment, but I did/would use my own!

[Apolva]

Well--I'm (obviously) not using one at the moment, but I did/would use my own!

Same ;)