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Audio and video playlists

Loop your music and visuals separately

Songs on one playlist, videos or images on another, each looping on its own. Add rain or a crackling fire underneath on a second channel. No more long renders with the audio baked in.

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Two audio channels, one mix

The songs play on the main channel and rain or a fireplace on a second one, each at its own volume.

A second channel for ambience

Move rain, a fireplace or a voiceover to the secondary channel and it loops under the songs, on its own.

Manage audioMain channel2Secondary channel2
1 Mellow Fox - Paper lanterns03:12
2 Rain on the window09:40
3 Koji - Window seat02:48
4 Fireplace crackle08:30
1 Rain on the window09:40
2 Fireplace crackle08:30
2 selectedAll ANone DMain channelSecondary channel Main channelSecondary channelDequeue

Mix it like a radio

Set the volume of each channel and a crossfade between songs, up to 20 seconds. Your files stay untouched.

Audio playlist settings
Main channel volume70Secondary channel volume3045
Audio crossfade duration (s)16Whole seconds only. Audio crossfade duration can be between 0 and 20 seconds.

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Visuals on their own loop

Clips, stills and GIFs play on the background playlist, and either playlist changes while the stream runs.

Videos, images and GIFs

Mix clips and stills in one background playlist. Give images a duration and pick how each one fades into the next.

Manage backgroundLoop duration: 00:06:10
1 Rooftop flow06:00
2 Cottage window.jpg00:10
Background fade typeFade outSlide horizontally No fadeRandomFade outSlide horizontallyScale outSwipe awayControls the type of fade animation between background files.
Slide horizontally, from a video to an image

Change it while it's live

Add songs, swap the visuals or reorder either playlist while the stream plays. Publish when you're ready and the stream keeps running.

StreamingPreview PSave SSaving changes won't publish them livePublish changes
1 Late night sax04:32
2 Rooftop flow06:00
3 Late study08:12
4 Cottage morning05:47
Stream successfully published

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FAQ

Audio and video playlist questions

On your stream’s edit page. The Background tab holds the visuals (videos, images and GIFs) and the Audio tab holds the music. Each one is its own playlist with its own order.

No. Upload the songs and the visuals as they are. Upstream plays both playlists at once and mixes them live, so a new song or a new clip is one upload, not a new render.

Yes. The audio and the background each have their own play order, Ordered loop or Shuffled loop, so you can shuffle one and keep the other in order.

A second audio playlist that plays at the same time as the songs, with its own volume. Use it for rain, a fireplace, crowd noise or a voiceover. Select the files in the audio playlist and move them to the Secondary channel. Loops under 10 minutes play without a gap.

Yes. Set the Audio crossfade duration from 0 to 20 seconds. At 0 each song starts straight after the last one.

Yes. Images and GIFs go in the same background playlist as videos. Each image shows for the time you set, 10 seconds by default, and you can pick how one item fades into the next.

Audio: MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG, WEBM, FLAC and CAF. Video: MP4, WEBM, OGG, MOV, TS, MTS and M2TS. Images: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WEBP and BMP.

Yes. Add, remove or reorder songs and visuals while it plays, then click Publish changes. The stream picks them up without stopping.

Yes. Add a track info element in the Stream Designer and it shows the current song’s title, artist and cover, updating by itself as the songs change.

More features

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Every feature is included on every plan, the free plan too.

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Put your music on a loop, not in a render

Upload songs and visuals, set the order and go live. The free plan includes 24 hours of streaming every month.

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