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Rekordbox

rekordbox has no radio-server output. MAWCast Studio captures its audio directly and goes live with it.

Last updated September 20261 min read
rekordbox has no Icecast output of its own

rekordbox's own help covers live streaming only by capturing its master output in broadcasting software; it does not connect to a radio server itself. MAWCast is an Icecast service, so something that speaks Icecast has to carry rekordbox's audio to it: MAWCast Studio does, with nothing in between.

MAWCast Studio makes this one step

Studio captures the audio of one application directly, so it can take rekordbox's output without a virtual audio device in between. It is included free with every plan, and signed in to your MAWCast account it already knows your stations — there is nothing to copy across and nothing to configure. See MAWCast Studio.

  1. Install MAWCast Studio

    Installer or portable — the portable build runs from a USB stick on a machine you do not own. See Installation.

  2. Choose Application capture

    Pick rekordbox from the list of programs. Studio takes its audio stream rather than what reaches your speakers, so your own volume and your cue mix do not change what goes out.

  3. Pick your station and go live

    Nothing to type: no hostname, no mountpoint, no password.

Tracks from streaming services

rekordbox's help lists restrictions for tracks from SoundCloud, Beatport, Beatsource and TIDAL in PERFORMANCE mode: among them, rekordbox's recording function and its capture function cannot be used, because of the streaming services' copyright restrictions. Apart from that, a DJ streaming subscription is not a licence to broadcast those tracks to your listeners. See Music licensing, and broadcast music you have the rights to.

Check it worked

Control shows the station as live within a few seconds of the encoder connecting, and the public page follows. If it does not, the reason is almost always one of three things — see Connection errors. When you stop, listeners go back to AutoDJ if its rotation is on (see Mountpoints and fallback).

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