Auto DJ
Cloud radio automation that keeps your station playing
Cloud radio automation with Primcast Auto DJ means your music lives on our servers and plays to hour clocks and a weekly schedule you set. Close the laptop and the station carries on, with station IDs where they belong and no dead air between songs.
Auto DJ comes with Premium and Platinum. The free plan is for live broadcasting only, because it has no storage for a music library.
What it does
Four jobs Auto DJ takes off your hands
Radio automation software used to mean a PC in a cupboard that could never be switched off. Here it runs on our servers, and you manage it from the radio panel in any browser.
Plays the hour you planned
Hour clocks decide what goes where. Weekday, weekend and seasonal schedules decide which clock plays when.
Keeps your library
20 GB of music on Premium, 100 GB on Platinum, uploaded from the browser and filed into playlists.
Sounds finished
Crossfades between songs, silence trimmed from the ends, and the same artist kept from playing twice in a row.
Never falls silent
A fallback playlist fills any gap, a file that will not play is skipped, and you get an alert if the station ever goes quiet.
Follows the rules for you
The US webcasting play rules are built into the rotation, and a song leaves rotation by itself when its rights run out.
Steps aside for live shows
When a DJ connects, Auto DJ hands over. When they sign off, the music comes straight back. A kill switch is there if you need it.
Inside the panel
Build the hour, fill the library
Two real screens from the radio panel, on our demo station Midnight Lounge FM.
Hour clocks
Pin station IDs to the exact minute, lay music sweeps between them, drop a jingle where the hour needs a lift. Then give mornings, evenings and weekends clocks of their own, and the weekly schedule plays them in turn.
Music library
Drag files in from your computer, MP3, AAC, Ogg, Opus, FLAC, WAV or AIFF, and watch your storage fill as they upload. Every track shows its album, length and size, ready to go into the playlists your clocks draw from.
Plans
Auto DJ on Premium, with the finishing touches on Platinum
Premium has everything you need to run a station around the clock. Platinum adds the polish a busy station notices: even loudness, your own cue points, requests and recorded voice links.
$0 a month
No Auto DJ and no music storage. You are on air while your encoder is connected, to 1,000 listeners at once.
Start free, live only$39 a month
Auto DJ with 20 GB for music, hour clocks, 5 DJ logins and a studio in your browser. Or $390 a year.
Free for 14 days Card or PayPal at checkout, first charge on day 15
Choose Premium$79 a month
100 GB for music, 20 DJ logins, and we build your first hour clock for you. Or $790 a year.
Free for 14 days Card or PayPal at checkout, first charge on day 15
Choose Platinum| Feature | Free | Premium | Platinum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto DJ | |||
| Auto DJ plays when nobody is live | Not included | Included | Included |
| Space on our servers for your songs | Not included | 20 GB | 100 GB |
| Hour clocks, plus weekday, weekend and seasonal schedules | Not included | Included | Included |
| Crossfades, silence trimmed, artists kept apart | Not included | Included | Included |
| US webcasting play rules applied for you | Not included | Included | Included |
| A fallback playlist so the station never goes quiet | Not included | Included | Included |
| Every song played at the same volume | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Mark where each song starts, talks over and ends | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Favorites played more often, explicit tags and a clean mode | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Song requests from listeners, with limits you choose | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Recorded voice links played between songs | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Live shows and DJs | |||
| DJ logins, each with its own hours on air | Not included | 5 | 20 |
| Go live from your browser, nothing to install | Not included | Included | Included |
| Live DJs take over and hand back on their own, plus a kill switch | Not included | Included | Included |
| An alert if the station goes silent | Not included | Included | Included |
| A backup encoder and gapless handovers between DJs | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Invite a guest on air with a link | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Free trial | |||
| Try it before the first charge | Not included | 14-day trial | 14-day trial |
Listeners, sound quality, audience stats and licensing tools for every plan are compared on our radio hosting page.
Try Premium or Platinum free for 14 days
Add a card or PayPal when you sign up and nothing is charged before day 15. Cancel before then and you pay nothing at all. One trial per new customer, and one more when you move up from Free or Premium.
Questions
Before you hand your station to Auto DJ
Which Primcast plans include Auto DJ?
Premium and Platinum. Premium gives Auto DJ 20 GB for your music and 5 DJ logins, Platinum 100 GB and 20. The free plan broadcasts live only: it has no storage, so there is no library for Auto DJ to play from.
What does Platinum add to Auto DJ?
Every song played at the same loudness, your own cue, intro and outro points, favorites in heavier rotation with explicit tags and a clean mode, song requests from listeners within limits you set, and recorded voice links between songs. On the live side it adds guest links, a backup encoder and gapless DJ handovers, and we build your first hour clock for you.
What is an hour clock?
A plan for one hour of radio. You place station IDs, jingles and music from your playlists, pinning some of them to an exact minute. Clocks are reusable: give mornings, evenings and weekends their own, and set a seasonal schedule for the holidays.
Does my computer need to stay on for the station to keep playing?
No. Your library, your clocks and your schedule all live on our servers in New York, and the station plays from there around the clock. You only sign in to upload music, change the schedule or go live yourself.
Which audio files can I upload?
MP3, AAC and M4A, Ogg and Opus, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. If a file turns out to be damaged, Auto DJ skips it when its turn comes and the hour carries on.
What happens when a DJ goes live, or drops out?
When a DJ connects in their hours, Auto DJ hands the air over. When they sign off or lose their connection, the music comes back on its own, and if the station ever falls silent you get an alert. On Platinum a backup encoder can take over first.
Does Auto DJ help with music licensing?
It keeps your rotation inside the US webcasting play rules, takes a song out of rotation when its rights end, and logs every play for your royalty reports. The licences themselves are still yours to arrange; our royalty fees page explains the main ones.
Let the station run while you sleep
Choose Premium, upload your music and build your first hour clock. If you want even loudness, requests and help with that first clock, start on Platinum.