Auto DJ
Cloud radio automation that keeps your station playing
Auto DJ is included with every paid radio plan, so there’s nothing extra to buy. Premium and Platinum both come with it.
Already have a station? Upload your music in Dashboard › Radio › Music.
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.
Pick the radio plan that fits your station and Auto DJ is switched on with it. The free plan is for live broadcasting only, because it has no storage for a music library.
Free for 14 days Card or PayPal at checkout, first charge on day 15
What it does
The 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.
Airs your recorded shows
Build pre-recorded and syndicated programs from your files, or import a syndicator's cue sheet: its own commercials are skipped and your break plays instead. Air an episode once or every week, give it an expiry date, and fill its station-ID and ad breaks from your playlists.
Fills playlists for you
A smart playlist picks up every track with the category or tags you chose, and a folder playlist plays whatever that folder holds. Give tracks your own cover art for what listeners see; on Platinum, an outro marker brings the next song in as the outro starts.
Checks the week, keeps every version
Before you save, the week check points out overlaps, gaps and slots that would play nothing. Every save keeps the version before it, the last 50 of them, and any one comes back in a click.
Talks between songs, even at 3 AM
On Platinum, an AI DJ says what just played and what comes next, in the voice, style and language you choose. Hear a sample before it goes on air; it never talks over a song or a live DJ.
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, no music storage and no podcasting, which starts on Premium. You are on air while your encoder is connected, to 1,000 listeners at once.
Closest-server delivery is on Platinum
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. Your shows can go out as podcasts too. Or $390 a year.
Free for 14 days Card or PayPal at checkout, first charge on day 15
Closest-server delivery is on Platinum
Choose PremiumGlobal radio CDN: listeners and your encoder on the closest of five cities.
$79 a month
100 GB for music, 20 DJ logins, and we build your first hour clock for you. Podcasting is included as well. Or $790 a year.
Free for 14 days Card or PayPal at checkout, first charge on day 15
Choose Platinum| Feature | Free | Premium | Platinum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radio CDN · Platinum only | |||
| Listeners hear you from the closest of five cities | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Your encoder connects to the closest city | Not included | Not included | Included |
| If a server fails, the next closest city takes over | Not included | Not included | Included |
| 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 |
| An AI DJ that talks between songs, in the voice and style you choose | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Production: ads, station IDs, weather, news, talk and songs made for you with AI, or sent in through the API | Not included | Included | Included |
| Recorded and syndicated shows from their cue sheets, with reruns and expiry dates | Not included | Included | Included |
| Playlists that fill themselves from tags or a folder, your own cover art and a week check | Not included | 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, gapless handovers between DJs and a standby slot | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Invite a guest on air with a link | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Talk over the music from a microphone, with the music dipped under you | Not included | Included | Included |
| Every live show saved to your library, ready to turn into a podcast episode | Not included | 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.
New AI Production · Premium and Platinum
Empty playlist? Type what you need and press make.
Ads for your sponsors, station IDs, the weather, a news bulletin, a talk show, even original songs: written for you, recorded with the voice you pick and dropped straight into your Auto DJ library. No studio, no voice actors, no radio experience needed.
- Uses your own OpenAI or ElevenLabs account for voices and music
- Lands in your playlists by itself, ready to air
- Platinum adds an AI DJ that talks between your songs
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.
Radio CDN, on Platinum
Your listeners hear you from the server closest to them
Your station lives in New York or Bucharest. On Platinum, each listener connects to the closest of our five cities instead, and so does your encoder. Every one of those servers pulls a single copy of your stream, however many people are listening there.
One link for every listener
Share your station's CDN link. Whoever opens it is answered by our server closest to where they are, and everybody listening through that city shares a single copy of your stream.
Your encoder stops at the closest server
Use the Nearest server settings and that server relays your show to your station's own server. Your password, your DJs' hours and your show all work exactly as they do now.
A server that goes quiet is skipped
We check every server every 10 seconds. One that misses 2 checks in a row is taken out, and anyone who reconnects is sent to the next closest city.
An audience on several continents? Platinum puts a server near each of them
Nobody has to reach across an ocean to hear you: each listener, and your encoder, connects in or near their own region. When we measured it, sound started 0.25–0.7 seconds after the player connected.
- North America
- New York
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Miami
- Western Europe
- Amsterdam
- Eastern Europe
- Bucharest
- North Africa, and Africa beyond it
- Amsterdam
- The Middle East
- Bucharest
- West Asia: Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
- Bucharest
- South and Central Asia
- Bucharest
- Asia-Pacific
- San Francisco
On Platinum, your dashboard's Radio section adds your CDN link and your Nearest server details. Free and Premium stations are reached directly, on the server they live on. Every plan keeps the links and settings you have now. How our radio CDN works
Questions
Before you hand your station to Auto DJ
Which Primcast plans include Auto DJ?
Every paid one: Premium and Platinum both include Auto DJ at no extra cost, and there is no separate Auto DJ to order. Premium gives it 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 or Bucharest, and the station plays from there around the clock. You only sign in to upload music, change the schedule or go live yourself.
Can Auto DJ play pre-recorded or syndicated shows?
Yes, on Premium and Platinum. In the Programs tab, build an episode from file stretches with cue points, or paste the syndicator's cue sheet (a .cue file or a list of times). Commercials inside the file are skipped and your own break plays in their place. Set it to air once or weekly for reruns, add an expiry date, and choose the playlists its station IDs and ad breaks come from.
What if I save a schedule change and regret it?
Open the Reliability tab and restore an earlier version. Each time your playlists or schedule change, the version before is kept, up to the last 50, and a restore can itself be undone the same way.
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.