The 24/7 Livestream

The AetherWave Radio Network broadcasts a live video stream, around the clock, to three social platforms at once. It never stops. There is no schedule to catch and no button to press: open it at four in the morning and something is playing.

Where to watch

The broadcast page lives at /radio-broadcast.html. The three social links are posted on the Radio Network pages and change whenever a new broadcast begins.

This is the VIDEO broadcast, not the audio player

Two different things share the word "radio" on AetherWave, and it is worth separating them:

• The livestream is a video broadcast. It runs on its own, out to YouTube, Facebook and X, whether or not anyone on AetherWave is listening.
• The player (the mini-player at the bottom of the site, and the Stereo) is your listening session. You choose a station, you press play, you hear it.

They are not the same feed and they do not follow each other. Pausing the player does not stop the broadcast, and tuning your Stereo to a different station does not change what the world sees on YouTube.

What is actually on screen

The broadcast shows the current station's visual identity along with what is playing right now: the track, the artist, and the station it belongs to. It is built to be readable as a background, so it holds up on a second monitor, a TV in a room, or a phone propped on a desk.

Because it is a continuous broadcast rather than a playlist, the picture changes as the music does.

How your music gets on it

The broadcast plays what the network plays. So the route onto it is the same as the route onto the air:

1. Publish a track to your AetherWave profile.
2. Get it onto a station. Add it to your own station, or have it picked up by one of the network's curated stations.
3. Wait for the clock. Stations run a rotation, so your track comes around in its turn.

There is no separate submission for the livestream and no queue to join. If it is on a station, it can appear on the broadcast.

The dial and the directory

Stations come in two kinds, and both feed the network:

• Dial stations have a frequency and sit on the FM tuner in the Stereo. You tune to them the way you would tune a real radio.
• Directory stations have no frequency. They are found by browsing rather than tuning, in the same way a satellite radio has channels you look up.

See The Station Owner's Manual for how to raise your own.

Common questions

Does it stop overnight? No. It is genuinely continuous. The technical machinery restarts briefly in the early hours, which can cause a gap of a few seconds.

Why does the stream sometimes show as ended on one platform? Each platform is a separate destination. One can drop while the others keep going, so if a link looks dead it is worth trying another before assuming the network is down.

Can I embed it on my own site? The broadcast page can be embedded in a frame. The social players have their own embed codes.

Is the video the same on all three platforms? Yes. One broadcast is sent to all three at once, so they show the same picture at the same moment.