RadioCast

A radio station with no music library to buy.

Every automation system asks the same thing first: where is your music? RadioCast answers it with 4M songs and growing, streamed on demand from the MusicIndexer catalog. Nothing to rip, nothing to download, no drives to fill.

Get access How it works

The maths

Playing 3,996,391 songs back to back takes 28.9 years.

At roughly three and a half minutes a track, the catalog would run for 28.9 years without repeating itself. Holding it on disk means about 21 five terabyte drives, plus the power, the enclosures, and the afternoon you spend replacing the one that failed. Streaming it means none of that.

How it works

Nobody stores the music. Not even us.

The catalog holds a pointer to each song, not a copy of it. Playback is fetched at the moment it is needed.

1 Index

Crawlers walk BitTorrent and Usenet and record where each song lives, then deduplicate so one song is one entry.

2 Request

Your automation asks for the next track that fits the format, the decade, and the rotation rules.

3 Fetch

We pull only the bytes of that one file, on demand, and hand it back as ordinary audio over HTTP.

4 Air

Your playout software receives a normal audio stream. It never knows the difference.

The difference

Running a station the old way, and this way

A traditional library

Buy and maintain 21 drives to hold it
Spend months ripping, tagging, and fixing metadata
Pay for the power and the replacements
Your rotation is capped by what you own
Growing the library is a purchase and a weekend
A dead drive is a dead station

RadioCast on MusicIndexer

No storage at all, the audio streams on demand
Metadata is already parsed, deduplicated, and genre tagged
No hardware, so no power bill and no failures
4M songs available from day one
The library grows on its own, every hour
Sources are ranked by health, with fallbacks behind them

What it does

Built like a broadcaster would build it

Rotation that behaves

No song twice in the same window, no artist twice in a row, and variety rules that keep an hour listenable.

Dayparting

A different mix in the morning to the one you run at midnight, on a clock you set.

Genre and decade stations

Build a station from a genre, a decade, a subgenre, or any mix of the three.

Quality floors

Set a minimum bitrate and a minimum source health, and nothing below it goes to air.

Fallback chain

If one source is slow, the next one answers. Silence is the one thing a station cannot broadcast.

Works with your playout

Exports for the common automation systems, so you keep the software you already know.

Where the music comes from

Two networks, one rotation

352,657 deduplicated songs on BitTorrent and 3,643,734 on Usenet. A station can draw on either, or both.

The panel

The station runs itself, and shows you everything

Now playing, the queue that is staged behind it, listener history, and the health of every station, on one screen.

RadioCast broadcaster dashboard showing now playing, AutoDJ queue and listener statistics — **Broadcaster dashboard.** Now playing with artwork, the AutoDJ queue staged behind it, tracks played today, listener history, and a skip button when you need one.

RadioCast system status showing stations online and stream engine health — **System status.** Every station, every stream engine, and the fetch queue, with health at a glance across the whole installation.

Coming soon

Build a station by the song, or by the artist

Today you pick a genre and a decade. Next you will hand it a list of exactly the artists and songs you want on air, and it will build the rotation around them.

Pick by artistPick by song Import a playlistBlock a track forever Weight the heavy rotation

Put a station on air without buying a library

The catalog is under one percent crawled and grows every hour. Early access holds your rate while it does.

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