University Radio Nottingham

Developing

npm run dev

Now Playing (GLUE)

Track metadata is pushed from the RCS/Zetta machine — the website never connects into RCS.

1. Set NOW_PLAYING_SECRET in Netlify → Project configuration → Environment variables.
2. Deploy so POST / GET /api/now-playing is live on https://urn1350.co.uk
3. On the RCS server, copy scripts/rcs/Upload-NowPlaying.ps1 to e.g. C:\GLUE\
4. Edit $ApiSecret in that script so it matches NOW_PLAYING_SECRET
5. Run the script (or schedule it at startup). It watches C:\GLUE\nowplaying.txt and POSTs on change.

Public clients only call GET /api/now-playing (no secret). Updates require Authorization: Bearer <secret>.

On Netlify, the latest track is stored with Netlify Blobs (the serverless filesystem is read-only). Locally, next dev falls back to data/now-playing.json.