CirrusPlay - Cloud Playout Software, Auto DJ & Cloud Backup for Radio | Cirrus Streaming
CirrusPlay · Cloud Playout

Run Your Whole Station From the Cloud

CirrusPlay plays your log around the clock, segues every song, opens your ad breaks and feeds your stream straight from our servers. No studio computer required. Control every bit of it from your Cirrus dashboard.

On Air in One Step
Remote Broadcasting
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The CirrusPlay Console

Every Control. One Screen.

See what's on the air, what's coming next and whether your stream is fed. The console updates itself, never scrolls, and lives inside the Cirrus dashboard you already use.

Exploded view of the CirrusPlay Console inside the Cirrus dashboard, with each part lifted apart and labelled.

  1. Stop · Insert · Skip · Mic

    Take the station off the air and back, drop in a request, skip to the next item, talk over the music or listen in.

  2. Now playing

    Title, artist, progress and the intro marker, updating live.

  3. Two decks

    One airs while the other prepares the next item, so segues overlap cleanly.

  4. Next Hour

    The hour ahead with projected start times, breaks and skips.

  5. Feed & Health

    Five live readings confirm your stream is being fed.

  6. Every page, one click

    Library, Scheduling, Playout Log, Shows and Import.

  7. Mic & Monitor

    Listen to your station, or talk over the music right from your browser.

  8. Your Cirrus dashboard

    CirrusPlay lives where you already sign in. Nothing to install.

Why CirrusPlay

Professional Playout, Handled in the Cloud

Cloud playout, cloud automation, auto DJ, cloud backup: whatever your station calls it, CirrusPlay runs it on our servers, right next to the platform that already delivers your stream. You stay in full control from your Cirrus dashboard.

No Playout Hardware to Maintain

Playout runs on our servers, so there's no on-site playout computer to set up, update or replace.

Close the Laptop. Stay on Air.

What listeners hear never depends on the console being open. Sign out, lose Wi-Fi, go home. Your station keeps playing.

Changes Never Cut a Song

Rebuild a day, import a log or reshuffle the library and it lands at the next song. The item on the air always finishes.

One Platform, One Team

CirrusPlay feeds your Cirrus stream directly. Playout and delivery both come from Cirrus, so support is one call away.

Stream Backup

Keep Your Studio. Add a Safety Net.

Still broadcasting from your own studio? CirrusPlay doubles as cloud backup for your stream. It sits silent while you're on the air, and the moment your studio stream drops, your own music goes out instead.

Timeline of a studio outage: the studio stream stops, CirrusPlay takes over after the takeover delay, the studio returns and listeners hear it again at once, and CirrusPlay stays ready before standing down.
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    Your studio stream stopsAn encoder reboots, the internet drops, weather takes out the link.
  2. 2
    CirrusPlay goes on the airAfter 30 seconds by default, so a brief hiccup never triggers it. Set it from 20 seconds to 10 minutes.
  3. 3
    Your studio comes backListeners hear the studio again the moment its stream returns. Nothing to switch back.
  4. 4
    It stays readyThe backup keeps running unheard for a few minutes, so a second drop is covered instantly.
Quick Start

New Station? On Air in One Click.

Skip the setup marathon. Quick Start builds everything a program director would build by hand, and every piece stays yours to edit later.

  1. Upload your music

    Drop in MP3 or M4A files, as many as you like. Moving a big collection? Our team can set up a dropbox for bulk delivery.

  2. Choose how you want to sound

    Shuffle the whole library as an auto DJ, or play music synced to the top of every hour, with an optional station ID or ad break.

  3. Click Go on air

    CirrusPlay builds the clock, paints the week, sets rotation and writes the logs. You're on the air within seconds.

Built for Radio

Everything Your Station Runs On

The tools program directors expect, all running in the cloud and working alongside the studio and software you already use.

Pro Scheduling, Built In

Build clocks slot by slot and paint them across the week. Paint only the hours that differ and let the rest fall to your music clock. Day logs are written automatically, up to a week ahead.

Keep Your Music Scheduler

Already use music and traffic software? CirrusPlay airs the logs it exports. Preview every import before it's written, or let a nightly inbox handle it.

Live Shows With a Safety Net

Doing shows from your own studio? DJs connect and take over the stream while the log keeps running underneath. When they sign off, listeners go right back to the music.

Remote Broadcasting

Go on air from home, a remote or the road. Arm your mic in the browser, press TALK, and the music ducks under your voice. Automatic gain control keeps your level steady, with no software to install.

A Library That Preps Itself

Every upload is loudness-levelled, trimmed of silence, measured exactly and given a segue point. Duplicates are caught automatically, and syndicated shows stay out of the music rotation.

Backup for Your Studio

Broadcasting from your own studio? CirrusPlay can stand by as its backup, going on the air by itself if your studio stream drops and handing straight back when it returns.

Take Requests on the Spot

A listener asks for a song. Search the library, click Play next, and it airs right after the current song. The log carries on where it was and your schedule is untouched.

Know You're On Air

Live feed health, a forecast of the hour ahead, and a self-updating library shuffle that covers any day without a log. There's always something to play.

Questions

Good Questions, Straight Answers

Do I need a computer running at the studio?

No. CirrusPlay runs on our servers and feeds your stream directly. You operate it from an up-to-date desktop web browser, and your station keeps playing whether the console is open or not.

Is this an auto DJ, or full radio automation?

Both, and you choose. In Shuffle mode CirrusPlay works like an auto DJ: it plays your whole library around the clock as one cloud playlist, in random order, reshuffled nightly, with new uploads joining by themselves. In Scheduled mode it runs full cloud automation: clocks, dayparts, rotation rules, station IDs, ad breaks and shows, with a day log written for you every night. You can switch between the two at any time, and the change lands at the next song.

Can I keep using my current music scheduling and traffic software?

Yes. CirrusPlay airs the daily music log and traffic log your existing software exports. Send our team a sample of each and we'll set up a format sheet for your station, which tells CirrusPlay how your files are laid out. After that, Test Parse shows you exactly what it found before anything is written, and a watched inbox can import every night automatically.

How do I get my music library into CirrusPlay?

Upload MP3 or M4A files from the Library page, as many at a time as you like. For large collections, our team can set up a dropbox for your station, and files placed in a folder are grouped by that folder's name automatically.

Can live DJs still do shows?

Absolutely. When a DJ connects, they take over the stream and the log keeps running underneath. When they disconnect, listeners go right back to the automation. On stations enabled for remote broadcast, hosts can also talk over the music straight from their browser.

Can CirrusPlay back up my own studio stream?

Yes. There is no second station to set up: CirrusPlay itself acts as your backup. It stays silent while your studio stream is on the air and takes over by itself if that stream stops, by default after 30 seconds. Listeners hear your studio again the moment it returns, and it stays ready for a few minutes in case the stream drops again. You can also put it on the air by hand from the console.

Can I still run commercials?

Yes. A clock can open an ad break of the length you choose at any point in the hour, and the break takes no time away from the log. Carts marked SPOT are reported separately from songs. If your traffic software schedules your spots, CirrusPlay can air its traffic log alongside the music log.

What happens if I make a change while the station is on air?

Changes to a day that is already on the air take effect at the next song. The item playing is never cut short by a regenerate, an import or a reshuffle.

Can I take the station off the air when I need to?

Yes. Stop on the console takes your station off the air after asking you to confirm, and it stays stopped, even through a server restart, until someone clicks Start. Day logs keep being written in the background while it is off.

Ready to Put Your Station in the Cloud?

Tell us about your station and we'll show you how quickly CirrusPlay can have you on the air.

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