Internet Radio Hosting - Your Station Online 24/7
A managed Icecast and SHOUTcast server that stays on the air without you touching a terminal. Upload your music, build playlists that run themselves, go live when you want to, and give listeners one address that always works. We run the stream server, the AutoDJ and the storage. You run the station.
- AutoDJ playlists
- Live DJ input
- Listener stats
- Embeddable player
How it works What you get Bitrate and listeners Broadcasting live Music licensing
Starter
100 listeners · 128 kbps · 10 GB storage
A new station finding its audience. Enough headroom for a regular show and a music library that keeps playing between them.
Station Most popular
500 listeners · 192 kbps · 25 GB storage
The common choice. A settled listenership, better audio, and room for a library you are not constantly pruning.
Pro
1000 listeners · 320 kbps · 50 GB storage
Established stations: full CD-quality streaming, a large catalogue, and the listener ceiling to survive being mentioned somewhere big.
How internet radio hosting works
Your station is a stream server that runs continuously on our hardware. Listeners connect to one permanent address, so a link you post today still works next year. The server does three jobs at once: it holds your music library, it plays a schedule when nobody is broadcasting, and it hands over to you the moment you connect live.
That is the part people usually try to do themselves on a VPS and quietly abandon. Icecast or SHOUTcast has to be installed, configured, kept running through reboots, put behind a firewall rule, given a certificate so browsers will play it, and paired with something to fill the hours when you are asleep. None of that is the interesting part of running a station, and none of it is your job here.
What you get
- A stream server that stays up. Icecast or SHOUTcast, running on managed hardware, restarted automatically if it ever stops.
- AutoDJ. Upload your library, build playlists, set what plays at which hours. The station keeps broadcasting when you are not there.
- Live broadcasting. Connect from any standard broadcasting application and take over the stream, then hand it back to the playlist when you finish.
- Listener statistics. Who is tuned in, for how long, and which tracks held them.
- An embeddable player. Drop your station onto your own site or share a direct link.
- File access. Upload a large library over FTP rather than one track at a time through a browser.
Bitrate and listeners, in plain terms
Two numbers decide which plan fits: how many people listen at once, and how good the audio is. Bitrate is quality per listener, and it multiplies. A station at 128 kbps with 100 people listening is using roughly the same capacity as one at 320 kbps with 40.
| Bitrate | Sounds like | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| 128 kbps | Solid FM quality | Talk, most music stations, mobile listeners |
| 192 kbps | Clearly better on real speakers | Music stations with a settled audience |
| 320 kbps | Near CD | Genre stations where audio quality is the point |
If you are unsure, start lower. Listener count is what usually runs out first, and moving up a plan later is easier than paying for headroom you never use.
Broadcasting live
Your station accepts a standard source connection, which means the broadcasting software you already know will work. You get the server address, port, mount point and password, you put them into your application, and you are on the air. When you disconnect, the AutoDJ picks the schedule back up without a gap.
Music licensing is yours, not ours
We sell the technical side: the server, the stream, the storage and the uptime. We do not provide music licensing, royalty reporting, or the rights to broadcast any particular recording, and we do not bundle a licence into the price.
Whatever you broadcast, you need the right to broadcast it, and the rules depend on where you and your listeners are. Plenty of stations run entirely on their own recordings, on explicitly licensed catalogues, or on talk content, and never need anything further. If you are playing commercial music to the public, look into what your country requires before you go live. We would rather say that clearly than let you discover it later.
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