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FWD Izubizu Radio & Audio Player

Responsive WordPress radio/audio player with HLS, Shoutcast, Icecast, MP3, live metadata, artwork lookup, and a real-time visualizer.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version1.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 6.0 · PHP 8.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update9 Jun 20264mo ago
Active installationsNewAdoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records FWD Izubizu Radio & Audio Player version 1.0 as active, updated 4mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

FWD Izubizu Radio & Audio Player is a sleek, fully responsive radio/audio player built for modern WordPress sites. It supports live radio streams (Shoutcast, Icecast, HLS) and standard audio files in one unified player, with customizable presets, shortcode control, WooCommerce integration, and production-ready UX.

The plugin includes:

– Multi source playback (audio, HLS, Shoutcast, Icecast)

– Live station/title/info updates

– Artwork support with fallback cover image

– Real-time visualizer (wave/bars)

– Share window with popular networks

– Playback rate, volume tooltip/scrubber, keyboard support

– Full color and layout customization

Official links (keep as HTML anchors):

– Homepage

– Demos

– Features

– JavaScript Documentation

– WordPress Documentation

– Support

Main Features

  • Multi source streaming: self-hosted/external audio, HLS, Shoutcast, Icecast
  • Initialize only when visible for better performance on long pages
  • Responsive/mobile-ready sizing (max width, max height, phone height)
  • Keyboard support (play/pause and volume keys)
  • Live info and station branding controls
  • Artwork integration with generic cover fallback
  • Share window with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Buffer, Digg, Blogger
  • Volume tooltip and scrubber styling
  • Wave and bars visualizer presets
  • Full player color theming (example: Preset 1 )
  • Border/shadow/radius UI controls
  • Autoplay, loop, default volume and playback rate (autoplay demo: Preset 4 )
  • CORS proxy-ready setup for strict stream endpoints
  • Multi-instance support on the same page

Shortcode

Basic example:

mp3″ source-type=”audio”]

With optional metadata and artwork:

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Supported shortcode attributes:

– preset_name (required)

– source (required)

– source-type (audio | hls | shoutcast | icecast)

– title (optional)

– info (optional)

– artwork-src (optional)

WooCommerce

Place the shortcode in product content/description to render the player in product pages. The plugin can replace the default product gallery output with the player shortcode rendering.

External Services

This plugin uses the following external services/resources:

  • Apple iTunes Search API

– Used for: retrieving artwork for live radio metadata (artist/song lookup).

– Triggered when: Shoutcast, Icecast, or HLS metadata updates request artwork.

– Data sent: artist and song query text from current metadata.

– Provider: Apple

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com/legal/privacy/

  • Google Fonts (Admin UI)

– Used for: loading the Roboto font in plugin admin pages.

– Triggered when: opening Presets Manager or Shortcode Generator in WordPress admin.

– Data sent: browser requests font CSS/files from Google Fonts/CDN (standard request metadata such as IP and user agent handled by Google).

– Provider: Google

com/

com/terms

com/privacy

  • Remote stream hosts (Audio/HLS/Shoutcast/Icecast)

– Used for: streaming playback from the source URL configured in shortcode/preset.

– Triggered when: a player instance starts loading/playing a stream.

m3u8 manifests and media segments).

– Provider: defined by the site owner stream URL (for example your radio provider/CDN).

js code inside the plugin, but media requests go to the configured stream host.

Documentation

  • JavaScript Documentation
  • WordPress Documentation

Development

This plugin’s full source code is publicly available for transparency and verification.

Developed and maintained by FutureWebDesign.

  • Source code & build tools — includes original uncompiled files and Vite build configuration.
  • Distributed plugin uses a compiled build generated by Vite for optimal performance.
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • audio player
  • radio player
  • hls
  • icecast
  • shoutcast
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 8.0
Update activity9 Jun 20264mo ago

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