Auto DJ · part of every paid radio plan
Clock-based radio automation.Draw the hour once.
Auto DJ is part of every paid radio plan. Premium and Platinum both include it, so there is no add-on to order and nothing extra on your bill.
Already on a paid plan? Put your tracks in Dashboard › Radio › Music. Auto DJ is already on your station.
Our Auto DJ is clock-based radio automation that runs on our servers, not your PC: you build an hour as a clock of station IDs, music runs, jingles and news, place clocks on a weekly schedule, and the station plays it around the clock until a live DJ takes over.
- Clocks live in the panel
- Runs on our servers
- No add-on to buy
A clock fixes what must land on the minute and lets the music fill the rest. The schedule picks the clock for each daypart, seasonal layers take over between two dates, and when nothing is scheduled the default playlist plays. Nothing on your side needs to stay switched on.
14 days free on Premium or Platinum. Nothing is charged until the trial ends, and cancelling before then costs nothing.
New AI Production · Premium and Platinum
Write a line, get a finished spot in your library
The Production tab turns a short brief into programming: sponsor ads, station IDs, local weather, a news read from feeds you choose, talk segments and original music. Each piece is scripted, voiced and filed under AI Studio, where a folder playlist puts it on air with the rest of your rotation.
- Runs on the OpenAI or ElevenLabs account you connect; their usage is billed by them, with nothing added by us
- Scriptable too: an API key with the Radio production permission creates jobs and imports audio from your own tools
- On Platinum an AI DJ links your songs, naming what played and what comes next
Hour clocks
A clock is the hour, drawn as a list
Each element of a clock draws from one of your playlists and says what it is: music, a jingle, a station ID, news, weather or a programme. It either plays in sequence, after the element before it, or is fixed to a minute from :00 to :59, which the station reaches on time whatever the music is doing.
- One to 50 items per element, so "five from Daytime Mix" is a single line
- Drag to reorder; two fixed elements can never claim the same minute
- The editor draws the hour as a bar, estimates how long the sequence runs, and flags gaps and playlists too thin to fill their slots
- One clock serves as many hours as you place it in
Schedule
The week decides which clock plays
The schedule is a week of slots, each naming a clock or a playlist for a day and a time: overnight, breakfast, daytime, evening, a different weekend. Copy a day or a week instead of rebuilding it. When nothing is scheduled the default playlist plays, and where two slots overlap the one added first wins.
- Seasonal and temporary layers that override the base week between two dates, the first in the list winning where two overlap
- A holiday schedule or a special broadcast is a layer, not an edit you have to undo
- Live shows sit on top: a DJ who connects takes the air whatever the schedule says
- The week check reads the whole week at once and names its gaps, its overlaps and any slot pointing at an empty playlist, before your listeners hear them
Radio CDN · Platinum
Every listener tunes in from the server nearest to them
Your station lives on one server, in New York or Bucharest. Its listeners and its encoder do not have to reach it there: on Platinum, our radio CDN answers each of them from the nearest of five cities, and each of our servers fetches one copy of your stream however many listeners it has.
- One link for every listener. The station's CDN link connects each listener to our server nearest to their network, which plays your station from the copy it keeps for everyone listening there.
- The encoder goes to the nearest server too. That server passes your broadcast straight on to your station, which checks the password and runs the show exactly as it does today.
- A server that stops answering drops out. Each one is checked every 10 seconds; after 2 failed checks in a row it is left out, and listeners who reconnect land on the next nearest.
On Platinum, your panel shows the station's CDN link and the Nearest server encoder settings. On Free and Premium, listeners and the encoder connect to the station's own server. The links and the encoder settings in use today keep working on every plan.
Listeners in several regions? Platinum meets each of them nearby
Instead of crossing an ocean to reach your station, every listener connects to a server in or near their own region, and so does your encoder. In our tests, audio started 0.25–0.7 seconds after the player connected through these servers.
- North AmericaNew York
- Latin America and the CaribbeanMiami
- Western EuropeAmsterdam
- Eastern EuropeBucharest
- North Africa and the rest of AfricaAmsterdam
- The Middle EastBucharest
- West Asia: Turkey and the CaucasusBucharest
- South and Central AsiaBucharest
- Asia-PacificSan Francisco
Each region has a second city behind the first, and New York behind both, for the moment a server stops answering.
Library and rotation
A library on our disks, played in an order you can defend
Upload whole folders into 20 GB on Premium or 100 GB on Platinum. Every file is checked as it lands and filed with its title, artist, album and art. Playlists play shuffled or in order; the shuffle is ours, not a random pick, and it keeps the rules below.
Separation
By default a track does not return within 20 plays, an artist within 4 and an album within 3. Set your own gaps. A library too small to keep them relaxes the album rule first and the track rule last, so the station never stalls.
US webcasting rules
An optional mode for US webcasters: in any three hours, no more than three tracks from one album, two in a row, and four by one artist, three in a row, counted in time. The airplay history shows any play that broke them.
Transitions
Crossfade of up to 12 seconds between tracks, and silence trimmed from the start and end of files, so the joins sound produced rather than accidental.
Never silent
If a scheduled playlist has nothing playable, the station falls back to the whole library. A missing or damaged file is skipped, not aired.
Metadata
Edit titles, artists and albums, add art, categories and tags. Duplicates are caught at upload and uncompressed files are compressed for you.
Records
Everything Auto DJ plays goes into the airplay log and the sealed daily records that feed your royalty reports, the same as a live show.
Smart and folder playlists
A smart playlist fills itself from the categories and tags you name, so new uploads join the rotation on their own. A folder playlist plays whatever sits in a folder of the library.
Segues and cover art
On Platinum, with crossfade on, an outro segue brings the next song in at the outro of the one playing, not at a fixed second. Give any track cover art of your own in place of what the tags carry.
Programs
Pre-recorded and syndicated shows, aired by the clock
A program is a show made of episodes, and an episode is a stretch of one or more files with cue points marking where it starts, breaks and ends. Import a cue sheet, a .cue file or a plain list of times, and the commercials embedded in a syndicated show are skipped: your own break plays in their place.
- Air an episode once, or weekly as a rerun, until an expiry date takes it off
- Station-ID and ad breaks filled from the playlists you choose
- A live show can be recorded to the library and aired again as an episode
- Every change to your programming is kept as a version, and any of the last 50 comes back in one click
Live handover
Automation that steps aside for a person
When a DJ connects, from an encoder or from the browser studio, the live show takes the air at once. When they disconnect, Auto DJ picks the hour back up from the clock. You can cut a DJ off from the panel at any moment.
- 5 DJ accounts on Premium and 20 on Platinum, each with its own login and broadcast hours
- Dead-air detection on both paid plans
- A talk-over mount: the presenter speaks over whatever is on air and the music ducks under the voice
- On Platinum, a backup source, seamless handoff between back-to-back DJs, a standby slot that takes the air only when neither show is sending, and guest links for a contributor without an account
Platinum controls
The controls a music director asks for
Platinum, at $79 a month, adds what separates a programmed station from a playlist on repeat.
Loudness normalization
Every track levelled, so a quiet 1970s master and a loud modern one sit at the same volume.
Cue points and markers
Cue-in and cue-out, intro and outro markers, so tracks start where the music starts and voice breaks land over intros.
Weighted rotation
A power rotation plays more often than a deep cut without starving it.
Explicit flags, clean mode
Mark explicit tracks and switch the station to clean for the hours that need it.
Listener requests
Listeners ask for songs, within limits you set on how many and how often.
Voice tracking
Record talk breaks ahead of time and air them between songs, so an automated hour still sounds hosted.
AI DJ
A presenter between songs at any hour: it names what just played and what is next, in the voice, style and language you pick, and only ever says what it was told.
Plans
Auto DJ, plan by plan
Premium is $39 a month or $390 a year. Platinum is $79 a month or $790 a year, and its listeners tune in through the radio CDN, from the nearest of five cities. The Free plan carries live shows only: it has no storage, so there is nothing for Auto DJ to play. Both paid plans can also publish a show as a podcast once it has aired: podcast hosting for radio stations.
| Feature | Free | Premium | Platinum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radio CDN, Platinum only | |||
| Listeners on the nearest of five cities | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Your encoder in at the nearest city | Not included | Not included | Included |
| A failed server skipped, the next city serves | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Auto DJ | |||
| Auto DJ when no source is connected | Not included | Included | Included |
| Library storage | Not included | 20 GB | 100 GB |
| Hour clocks, dayparts, seasonal layers | Not included | Included | Included |
| Crossfade, silence trim, artist separation | Not included | Included | Included |
| US webcasting rotation rules | Not included | Included | Included |
| Fallback playlist, the mount never drops | Not included | Included | Included |
| Per-track loudness normalization | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Cue-in, cue-out, intro and outro markers | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Weighted rotation, explicit flags, clean mode | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Listener requests, with your limits | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Voice tracking | Not included | Not included | Included |
| AI presenter between songs (voice, style, language) | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Production: AI ads, IDs, weather, news, talk, songs; content API | Not included | Included | Included |
| Smart (category and tag) and folder playlists, custom cover art | Not included | Included | Included |
| Pre-recorded and syndicated programs, cue-sheet import, reruns, expiry | Not included | Included | Included |
| Live shows | |||
| DJ accounts, each with its own login and hours | Not included | 5 | 20 |
| Browser studio, nothing to install | Not included | Included | Included |
| Live takeover, Auto DJ resume, emergency cut | Not included | Included | Included |
| Dead-air detection | Not included | Included | Included |
| Talk-over mount: mic on top, music ducked | Not included | Included | Included |
| Live shows recorded to the library, one click to an episode | Not included | Included | Included |
| Backup source, seamless DJ handoff, standby slot | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Guest links, no account needed | Not included | Not included | Included |
14 days free on Premium and Platinum. The card or PayPal account goes on file at checkout and nothing is charged until day 14 ends; cancel before then and the trial costs nothing. One trial per new customer, and a Free or Premium station gets one when it moves up a plan.
An audience in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, North Africa or West Asia?
Platinum's radio CDN serves each listener from the nearest of five cities, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Miami, New York and San Francisco, and takes your encoder in at the nearest one too, so the station starts faster and buffers less wherever they are. If a server stops answering, the next nearest city takes over. How the radio CDN works
Answers
Radio automation, answered
What is clock-based radio automation?
Programming a station by the hour instead of by the playlist. A clock lists what plays in an hour, with some items fixed to a minute such as the station ID at :00, and the rest running in sequence between them. A schedule then places clocks across the week. It is how broadcast stations keep the top of the hour on time.
Do I have to buy Auto DJ separately?
No. Premium and Platinum each come with Auto DJ, so a paid station has it from the first day. Upload your tracks under Dashboard, Radio, Music and they are ready for your playlists and clocks.
Is Auto DJ included in the free radio plan?
No. The Free plan has no storage, so there is no library for Auto DJ to play. Auto DJ starts on Premium at $39 a month with 20 GB for music.
Does my computer need to stay on for the AutoDJ to play?
No. The library, the clocks and the schedule live on our servers in New York or Bucharest, and the station plays from there around the clock. Your computer is only needed when you broadcast live from it.
What is the difference between a playlist and a clock?
A playlist is a set of tracks, played shuffled or in order. A clock is an hour built from playlists: five from one, a jingle from another, the station ID fixed at :30. Playlists are the ingredients; clocks are the recipe.
What happens when a DJ goes live?
The live show takes the air at once. When the DJ disconnects, Auto DJ resumes from the schedule. On Platinum a backup source can cover a dropped connection, and two DJs can hand over without a gap.
Can the rotation follow US webcasting rules?
Yes, as an option on both paid plans. It limits plays per album and per artist in any three hours, counted in time. A small library cannot always comply, and the airplay history shows every play that broke a rule so you know where to add music.
Can I air a syndicated show that comes with its own commercials?
Yes, on both paid plans. Import the show's cue sheet and the embedded commercials are skipped; the station plays its own break from your playlists instead.
Is there a free trial on the paid radio plans?
Yes, 14 days on Premium and Platinum. You add a card or PayPal at checkout, the first charge comes when the trial ends, and cancelling before then costs nothing. Each new customer gets one trial, and a Free or Premium station gets one when it upgrades.
Build the first clock this afternoon
Premium gives you Auto DJ, 20 GB of library and 5 DJ accounts for $39 a month. On Platinum we build your first clock with you.