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AzuraCast: A Simple, Self-Hosted Web Radio Management Suite




AzuraCast is a self-hosted, all-in-one web radio management suite. Using its easy installer and powerful but
intuitive web interface, you can start up a fully working web radio station in a few quick minutes. AzuraCast works for
web radio stations of all types and sizes, and is built to run on even the most affordable VPS web hosts. AzuraCast is
currently beta software.

You can learn more about AzuraCast via our Documentation:

Live Demo

Want to see AzuraCast for yourself? Visit our demo site at demo.azuracast.com:

  • Username: demo@azuracast.com
  • Password: demo

Install AzuraCast

To install AzuraCast, you should have a basic understanding of the Linux shell terminal. Once installed, every aspect of
your radio station can be managed via AzuraCast’s web interface.
Follow our installation guide for instructions on how
to install AzuraCast on your own server.

License

AzuraCast is licensed under
the Affero GNU General Public License (AGPL) version 3.0.
This project is free
and open-source software, and pull requests are always welcome.

Need Help?

If you need help with AzuraCast, the first place you should visit is
our Support page
, which features solutions to a number of commonly encountered issues and questions, as well as instructions on how to
check your server’s log files for more details. If you do need our help via GitHub, supplying these logs is absolutely
essential in helping us diagnose and resolve your issue.
New feature requests are powered by FeatureUpvote. You can visit
our Feature Request Page to submit a new feature request or vote on existing ones.
For bug and error reports, we rely exclusively on
our GitHub Issues board to
diagnose, track and update these reports. First, check to make sure the issue you’re experiencing isn’t already reported
on GitHub. If it is, you can subscribe to the existing ticket for updates on the issue’s progress. If your issue or
request isn’t already reported, click the “New Issue” button to create it. Make sure to follow the template provided, as
it asks important details that are very important to our team.
Please keep in mind that AzuraCast is a free software project built and maintained by volunteers, so there may be some
delays in getting back to you. We will make the absolute best effort possible to resolve your issues and answer your
questions.

Communities and Social Media

We frequently post to social media any time there are significant updates to our software, security issues that users
should be aware of, or upcoming changes to third-party software. You can get these updates in a more timely fashion by
following our accounts:

If you are an AzuraCast user, station owner, developer or other contributor, you can also join our Discord community,
where you can ask questions, share your station and more:

Note that our social media channels aren’t the best way to report issues to us; instead, you should use the GitHub
issues instructions above, as this allows our whole team to help resolve and track the progress of the issue in one
location.

Friends of AzuraCast

We would like to thank the following organizations for their support of AzuraCast’s ongoing development:

  • DigitalOcean for generously providing the server resources we use for our
    demonstration instance, our staging and testing environments, and more
  • JetBrains for making our development faster, easier and more productive with tools like
    PhpStorm
  • CrowdIn for giving us a simple and powerful tool to help translate our application for users
    around the world
  • Netlify for supporting open-source software like ours and for serving as the host of our
    primary azuracast.com web site.
  • BrowserStack for giving us tools to help test our software’s accessibility and
    features across multiple browsers and operating systems.
  • The creators and maintainers of the many free and open-source tools that AzuraCast is built on, who have done so much
    to help move FOSS forward

Support AzuraCast Development

AzuraCast will always be available free of charge, but if you find the software useful and would like to support the
project’s lead developer, visit either of the links below. Your support is greatly appreciated.