How to Add a Radio Player to Google Sites

Published 10 October 2026

Google Sites has no radio or audio-stream element of its own, but it does accept embed code, and a live radio player is a few lines of it. This guide shows the quickest route, a ready-made player card, and the plain HTML alternative, with the limits you should know before you publish.

The quick way: a ready-made player card

1. Open the free radio widget page and search for the station by name. It covers the stations in the open Radio Browser directory, the one 72FM is built on.
2. Press Copy embed code. The snippet is one iframe and a short credit line.
3. In Google Sites, open your site and choose Insert, then Embed.
4. Switch to the Embed code tab, paste the snippet, press Next, then Insert.
5. Drag the handles of the new box until the whole card shows. The player is 168 pixels tall and up to 420 pixels wide, so a box a little taller than that avoids a scroll bar.
6. Press Publish.

Visitors see a card with the station's logo, its name and a Listen live button. Google Sites shows embedded code inside a frame of its own, which is normal and does not affect the player.

To put several stations on one page, repeat the steps with one snippet per station.

What to expect

• It will not start by itself. Browsers block sound that starts before a visitor presses something, so every web radio player waits for a click. There is no setting, in Google Sites or anywhere else, that turns a live stream into background music that plays on arrival.
• Some stations cannot be embedded. A stream that is offered only over plain http is blocked by the browser on a secure page, and every Google Site is secure. The player says so and links to the station's page instead. Pick another stream of the same station if the directory lists one.
• If the station goes off air, the player says the stream is not responding. Stations move their streams from time to time; if one stays silent, choose the station again on the widget page and replace the snippet.
• The credit line is a request, not a condition. The snippet ends with a visible link to the station's page on 72FM. We ask you to keep it; the player works without it.
• Check that you may use the station. A player only links to a broadcast that is already public, but if the station is not yours, ask the broadcaster, and a business playing radio to customers needs the usual music licences.

The plain HTML way

If you run the station yourself and know its stream address, Google Sites also accepts the browser's own audio player. Paste this on the Embed code tab, with your stream's https address:

<audio controls preload="none" src="https://example.com/your-stream"></audio>

It shows a bare play button and volume control, with no logo or station name. Adding a radio player to your website explains this route and its pitfalls, and how to find a station's stream URL shows where the address comes from.

When the box is empty or silent

• An empty box after publishing: open the published page rather than the editor preview, and make sure the whole snippet was pasted, from the opening <iframe to the end.
• The card is cut off: make the embed box taller in the editor and publish again.
• A play button but no sound: try the station on 72FM itself. If it is silent there too, the broadcaster's stream is down; internet radio stopped working lists the other causes.