Three releases landed this week: the rebuilt 2.0 experience, a player that lives in its own window, and one home for news, voting and submissions. Here is what changed and where to find it.
The 2.0 experience is live
FirstPlay has been rebuilt around one screen: live radio on the left, what is playing on the right, and the rotation, your saved collection, videos and the news all one tap away. It is now the default when you open firstplaymusic.com.
Live radio stays free and stays at the top. On-demand releases, premieres and artist pages sit right beside it, so hearing something first and keeping it are the same motion. The classic site is still there at /classic for anyone who prefers it.
The desktop player and the new pop-out put a small, always-on player beside whatever you are working on, with the live broadcast, track details and volume without the tab.
You can install it from the downloads page, or open the pop-out from the player bar on any screen.
The daily drop now lands every morning with the stories moving hip-hop and R&B, sorted by what is newest, with the radio stories that matter to this audience at the top.
The rotation ballot lets you keep or cut a record that is on air right now, and that vote actually counts toward what stays in rotation. Artists can send music, videos and radio drops straight to our music director, with a tracking code and a decision inside 30 days.