What is AzuraCast?

Deployable AzuraCast VPS is

Perfect for DJs, station managers, and Podcast Professionals
All-in-One Web Radio Management Suite
Start a Fully Working Web Radio Station in Minutes
Hands-free Installation and Configuration
Private VPS server, dedicated to your Streaming
Easiest AzuraCast solution on the web!

Core Features

For Radio Stations

Rich Media Management: Upload songs, edit metadata, preview songs and organize music into folders from your browser.
Playlists: Add music to standard-rotation playlists (in sequential or shuffled playback order) or schedule a playlist to play at a scheduled time, or once per x songs/minutes/etc.
Live DJs: Set up individual DJ/streamer accounts and see who’s currently streaming from your station’s profile page.
Web DJ: Broadcast live directly from your browser, with no extra software needed, with AzuraCast’s built-in Web DJ tool.
Public Pages: AzuraCast includes embeddable public pages that you can integrate into your existing web page or use as the basis for your own customized player.
Listener Requests: Let your listeners request specific songs from your playlists, both via an API and a simple public-facing listener page.
Remote Relays: Broadcast your radio signal (including live DJs) to any remote server running Icecast or SHOUTcast.
Web Hooks: Integrate your station with Slack, Discord, TuneIn, Twitter and more by setting up web hooks that connect to third-party services.
Detailed Analytics and Reports: Keep track of every aspect of your station’s listeners over time. View reports of each song’s impact on your listener count. You can also generate a report that’s compatible with SoundExchange for US web radio royalties.

For Server Administrators

Role-based User Management: Assign global and per-station permissions to a role, then add users to those roles to control access.
Custom Branding: Modify every aspect of both the internal and public-facing AzuraCast pages by supplying your own custom CSS and JavaScript.
Authenticated RESTful API: Individual users in the system can create API keys which have the same permissions they have in the system. The AzuraCast API is a powerful and well-documented tool for interacting with installations.
Web Log Viewing: Quickly diagnose problems affecting any part of the AzuraCast system through the system-wide web log viewer.
Automatic Radio Proxies: Many users can’t connect directly to radio station ports (i.e. 8000) by default, so AzuraCast includes an automatic nginx proxy that lets listeners connect via the http (80) and https (443) ports. These proxies are also compatible with services like Cloudflare.
Storage Location Management: Station media, live recordings and backups can be stored locally or on an S3 compatible storage provider.

What’s Included

AzuraCast will automatically retrieve and install these components for you:

Core Stack

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Server)
Docker
AzuraCast

Radio Software

Liquidsoap as the always-playing “AutoDJ”
Icecast 2.4 as a radio broadcasting frontend (Icecast-KH installed on supported platforms)

For x86/x64 installations, SHOUTcast 2 DNAS can also be used as a broadcasting frontend. SHOUTcast is non-free software and does not come bundled with AzuraCast, but can be installed via the administration panel after AzuraCast has been installed.

Supporting Software

NGINX for serving web pages and the radio proxy
MariaDB as the primary database
PHP 8.0 powering the web application
Redis for sessions, message queue storage, database and general caching

AzuraCast API

Once installed and running, AzuraCast exposes an API that allows you to monitor and interact with your stations.
Documentation about this API and its endpoints are available on
the AzuraCast API Documentation.