Serato
Serato DJ has no radio-server output. MAWCast Studio captures its audio directly and goes live on your station.
Serato's live-streaming feature hands Serato DJ's audio to broadcasting software; it does not connect to a radio server itself. MAWCast is an Icecast service, so something that speaks Icecast has to carry Serato's audio to it: MAWCast Studio does, with nothing in between.
Studio captures the audio of one application directly, so it can take Serato DJ'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.
Install MAWCast Studio
Installer or portable — the portable build runs from a USB stick on a machine you do not own. See Installation.
Choose Application capture
Pick Serato DJ 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.
Pick your station and go live
Nothing to type: no hostname, no mountpoint, no password.
Serato-specific notes
- Studio's meters hit the red. Bring the level down in Serato; a clipped signal stays clipped for every listener.
- Tracks from a streaming service. A DJ streaming subscription is not a licence to broadcast those tracks to listeners. See Music licensing.
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).
Still need help? Write to contact@mawcast.com.