For broadcasters

When somebody presses play, this server opens one connection to your stream and passes the bytes straight through to that listener, for as long as they listen. One listener, one connection.

Nothing is recorded, re-encoded or stored. Your advertising and your station identification arrive exactly as you sent them. Your page links to your own site where we have it, and the link is the point — this is a directory, not a destination that keeps people.

The stream is proxied rather than linked directly for one reason: most stations are served over plain HTTP, and a browser on an HTTPS page refuses to play those. The proxy is what makes your station audible at all to a modern browser.

Email admin@gramophone.us from an address at your station's domain, or from the contact address on your site, and say which station. It will be removed within 3 working days and stays removed — its page then answers "gone" rather than quietly reappearing the next time the catalogue is rebuilt.

No reason is needed and none will be argued with.

Most of this catalogue comes from Radio Browser, a community database that many directories draw on. Removing your station there takes it out of all of them, including the next rebuild of this one — which is usually what a broadcaster actually wants.

There are two things you can put on your own site. Neither needs an account, a key, or any script of ours on your page, and neither reports anything back beyond the same anonymous play count every listener here contributes.

The badge is a link to your station's page. The player is that page's play button, running inside yours — your listeners hear you without leaving your site.

Worth saying which is which: a badge is a link from your site, which is worth something to us in search rankings. The player is an embedded document, which is worth much less that way — it is there because it is useful to you, not because it helps us. Take either, both, or neither.

Both snippets are on each station's own page, under “Broadcast this station?”, already filled in with that station's address.

It does not claim your audience. Listening here is listening to you. If your stream reports its listener count, this shows up in it the same as any other player.

It does not stay up when your stream is down. Every station here is checked continuously, and one that stops answering loses its page rather than sitting there as a dead link with your name on it.