Virtual DJ Setup

Note: Requires a paid Virtual DJ license. The free version doesn't allow broadcasting to a radio server.

Prefer video? Watch the Virtual DJ tutorial on YouTube.

Before you start

You'll need your Stream Info notecard, delivered in-world when you rented your plan. The fields you'll copy from it are HOST/IP, PORT, and PASSWORD. (If you're a live DJ connecting to someone else's AUTO-DJ station, use the credentials they gave you instead.)

Three things go wrong more often than anything else:

1. Extra spaces from copy/paste. Double-click the value to select it cleanly. If you drag to select, you can grab a leading or trailing space without seeing it, and the connection silently fails.
2. HOST/IP format. Use the address exactly as written, just live.xxx.lightmanstreams.com. Don't add http:// in front, don't add :PORT at the end (the port goes in its own field), and don't paste the in-world Land URL.
3. Password length. S Plan and M Plan passwords are always 6 characters. L Plan passwords are always 8 characters. AUTO-DJ live DJ passwords have no fixed length. If your S or L Plan password doesn't match the expected length, you grabbed the wrong line from the notecard.

⚠️ S Plan users: Set Encoding Quality to 192 kbps. Anything higher will fail to connect.

⚠️ Session Name AND Session Genre are both required. SHOUTcast rejects connections that don't send a name. Virtual DJ also misbehaves if the genre is blank, both fields must be filled in or the connection will glitch. Set them now and you avoid the most common cause of "won't connect".

⚠️ Leave all other fields empty. Filling in optional metadata fields beyond Name and Genre interferes with the DNAS code and causes connection glitches. Type something in Name, type something in Genre, leave everything else blank.

1. Open Preferences

In Virtual DJ, click the gear-shaped button in the top-right corner to open Preferences.

2. Configure broadcast

In the Preferences window, click Broadcast in the left column, then click Radio Server.

Fill in the required fields:

• Protocol: Shoutcast
• Encoding Quality: 320 kbps (high quality) (or 192 kbps for S Plan)
• Server URL: paste the HOST/IP from your notecard
• Server Port: paste the PORT from your notecard
• Password: paste the PASSWORD from your notecard (passwords are case-sensitive)
• Session Name: type any name (required)
• Session Genre: type any genre, e.g. "Whatever" (required, see warning above)

Leave all other fields blank. Name your config in the Config field, then click the save icon.

3. Start broadcasting

In the central mixer console, click the MASTER tab, then click the BCAST button to start broadcasting.

Common issues

• Connection rejected? See SHOUTcast Connection Issues.
• Stream drops mid-broadcast? See Stream Cuts Out.
• Stream sounds bad? See Audio Sounds Bad.
• Status page says "requires registration"? See Listing Status: Private (Virtual DJ defaults to private, so this is unlikely to apply).