It’ll either sink, or get enough traction and polish to be worth your time – at which point we’ll give it a proper look. This site calls itself “the official home of DJ streaming”, but looks half-finished to us, with little documentation or explanation on the site, which is why we haven’t properly reviewed it. Sign up for Bandlab to give it a go at its official website.
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Worth a look, though, especially if you are already a member (it appears to be free to use the streaming service). I did reach out to Bandlab to check on the legal situation for DJs and try to engage with them, but haven’t heard anything back from them. We have got DJs in our own community who say they’ve been using it to go live successfully. However it is still there – as a Bandlab member you grab an RTMP server address and stream key from your home page, and you “go live” within the Bandlab community. “Bandlab Live” was the new name for the service, but it went VERY quiet. It was somewhat ahead of its time, and eventually was bought by Bandlab, which is “a cloud platform where musicians and fans create music, collaborate and engage with each other across the globe”. Bandlab LiveĪ few years a go, a promising startup called was the first livestreaming platform by DJs, for DJs. We haven’t streamed on any of these (or not for a long time), but in the interest of advancing this new side of our hobby, we thought we’d share them with you anyway! 3 Alternative DJ livestream sites 1. However, of late, other platforms have either appeared or come back onto our radar. They will only save an audio recording for you, and you have to pay a subscription fee (some of which, of course, is used to compensate the artists) – but here at Digital DJ Tips, we are 100% behind Mixcloud because they actually have your back as a livestreamer. Read this next: The Ultimate Guide To DJ LivestreamingĪnd then there is Mixcloud Live – the 100% legal platform with all the right licensing in place, meaning you can stream without worry there.
You could alternatively stream on Twitch – technically you’re not allowed to, but as long as you don’t care about the recording (which will often be muted), it currently works. Every record label worth its salt seems to be sending its most likely DJs to the top of windswept mountains complete with drones, multi-camera angles (and generators and production crew hidden in nearby bushes).īut where to livestream your DJ sets? While the usual platform for “pro” livestreams is YouTube, the reality is that all the tracks playing there have been cleared beforehand – a bane for many of us hobby livestreamers (also those streams are often not really ever “live”, just presented that way).