AutoDJ plays from a library you upload once. Everything here happens under AutoDJ › Library in your dashboard.
What You Can Upload
- Formats: MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG and WAV.
- Up to 300 MB per file. Comfortably enough for a long DJ mix — an hour at 320 kbps is about 144 MB.
- Up to 30 files at a time. Drop more than that and do it in batches.
- 3 GB per station in total, shared between your music and your jingles. That is roughly 30 to 35 hours of audio — about 500 songs.
FLAC and WAV are worth a thought before you use them. They sound no better once the stream is encoded, and they will eat your 3 GB several times faster than MP3 will.
Tags Matter
Artist and title are read from the file's own tags, and that is what listeners see as the now-playing text on your player page. A library full of track04.mp3 becomes a station that cannot say what it is playing. Fixing tags before you upload is easiest; for anything that slips through, the Library page flags tracks with no artist and offers Fix tags.
Where an Upload Lands
By default it joins your station's default playlist, so the simple case stays simple: upload it, and it plays. If you upload from inside a particular playlist, it goes there instead. See playlists and the rotation.
Jingles
Station idents, liners and stings are uploaded as jingles rather than as music, on the Jingles page under AutoDJ. They are not playlist members and have no running order: they drop in between songs, picked at random, as often as you set — every few songs, every so many minutes, or at set times past the hour.
Jingles play between songs, one per break. At a set time AutoDJ picks songs that end in time for it, and if none does, the song playing fades out so the jingle starts on the dot. Upload half a dozen and your station identifies itself all day without you arranging anything. They come out of the same 3 GB.
A Word on Licensing
Uploading music you did not make does not license you to broadcast it. If you play commercial records, the rights bodies in your country want paying, and that is between you and them — GoCast does not bundle licensing. Talk content, your own work, and properly licensed royalty-free or Creative Commons music are all free of that problem. There is an honest breakdown on the blog.