What it does
JUST STREAM takes a live sound source, runs it through the same tone tools as the player, and broadcasts it to an Icecast server. The point: get your set on air without a tangle of virtual cables.
Why a server between you and the listeners
You push one stream up to the Icecast server — everyone listens from there. That has two quiet benefits. Your home connection only ever carries a single stream: if a hundred listeners pulled directly from you instead, you'd need roughly 13 Mbit/s of upload all night. And listeners connect to the server, never to your machine — your IP address is never exposed to the audience. The station box does the heavy lifting; you just deliver the show.
Where the sound comes from — App or Device
App (the headline trick)
Instead of grabbing a whole sound card, JUST STREAM can grab the audio of ONE application — your DJ software, a browser tab, anything. Only that app goes on air; nothing else on your PC leaks in.
Device
Or pick any sound card / audio device as the source, straight from a dropdown.
Keeping your cue off the air — Broadcast Channels
DJ gear usually sends the Master out on one pair of channels and your private headphone cue on another. JUST STREAM defaults to broadcasting Channels 1-2 — on that gear, the Master — so your cue never goes out by accident. If your setup routes the Master elsewhere, you can pick Channels 3-4 or the full mix.
The broadcast DSP
The same rack as the player — EQ, TILT, PUNCH and the Limiter — with the same one-click genre presets (Electronic, Hard, Rock, Neutral). The one difference: JUST STREAM leans the limiter a notch louder, because a live stream has to stay competitively loud and you can't ride the gain mid-mix. For what each control actually does, see the JUST PLAY page. As in the player, right-click a preset to replace it with your current settings, rename, or delete it.
MP3 or Opus
Stream in MP3 (works everywhere) or Opus (smaller for the same quality). Pick the bitrate: 128, 192, 256 or 320 kbps. One catch: live "now playing" song titles only ride on MP3 — Opus can't carry them.
Record your set
A REC button sits next to CONNECT. Recording is independent of streaming — you can record without ever going on air, and a stream reconnect never breaks the file. You record like you stream: it captures the finished, limited master — the same signal that goes on air, already loudness-managed — not your raw source.
Pick the format in Settings → Recording. Same as stream is the default: the file mirrors your live codec and bitrate, so you hear exactly what your listeners get — artifacts included, the honest self-check. Or choose MP3 320, FLAC, AIFF or WAV; the lossless options are 16-bit.
Files land in Music\JUST STREAM Recordings by default (the folder is configurable),
named by date and time plus the server profile name, so they sort chronologically.
Auto-record while on air
A Settings toggle for anyone who never remembers to hit record at gig start: recording starts with CONNECT and the file is saved on DISCONNECT. If the connection drops, the recording keeps running regardless — the set is never lost.
Auto-trim silence
On by default. You usually go on air first and start the music later — the dead air never reaches the file. REC arms the recorder (the button reads ARMED) and the file starts on the first beat and ends on the last. Short breaks in the mix, up to 30 seconds, are preserved exactly; only silence longer than that gets cut. A recording that never saw any audio is discarded automatically.
A recording problem — disk full, an unreachable folder — can never interrupt the broadcast. The recorder fails on its own and says so in the event log; the stream keeps going.
Server profiles
Save as many Icecast servers as you like — host, mount, login and optional TLS — and switch between them from the dropdown at the top. The codec (MP3 or Opus) and bitrate aren't part of these per-server settings; you pick those on the main console, next to the meters — see above.
Station metadata
Per profile you can carry the station's own details into Icecast — website, genre, description and a public-directory toggle — so your stream shows up properly in listeners' players and, if you opt in, in the server's public directory. All optional; leave a field blank and it simply isn't sent.
Now playing
Send a station title / now-playing line that rides along with the stream (MP3 only — Opus can't carry it). When you capture an app, JUST STREAM offers an automatic "Streaming live from {app}" title, so listeners always see something even before you wire up track names — and it never overwrites a title you typed yourself.
Who's listening
A LISTENERS readout sits with the stream info, with the session's peak beside it. The number comes off your server's own public status page as an ordinary web request — the same one anybody could open in a browser — so no admin password is stored anywhere, and nothing about your listeners leaves the server.
It refreshes every 15 seconds while you're on air and every minute when you're not, one request at a time. A server that stops answering costs you the number and never the broadcast: the readout falls back to a dash and the stream carries on. Not every Icecast server exposes that page, and on the ones that don't the count stays a dash.
If the connection drops
JUST STREAM reconnects on its own — first after a couple of seconds, then with growing pauses (at most half a minute between tries) until the server is back or you hit DISCONNECT. Your on-air time keeps counting, the now-playing title is re-sent, and a running set recording is never interrupted.
Watch your sound — meters & spectrum
A true-peak level meter with limiter lights shows how hard you're pushing, and the spectrum view shows your sound before vs after the DSP (DRY vs WET) against the reference curve — so you can see what you're putting out, not just hear it.
Compact view
Shrink JUST STREAM to a compact on-air strip that stays out of the way while you mix.