Personal stereo versus a station stereo
You have one personal stereo, and you can own many stations. They are independent rigs.
Your personal stereo (/stereo-system) is your private listening rig. It has the free tuner, it plays anything on the dial, and nothing about it is public.
A station stereo is the rack that shapes what a station broadcasts. When someone visits your station, they hear your music through the exact rack you built for it. A visitor's tuner is locked to that station, and they cannot change your gear; they are hearing your sound as you set it.
Owning gear is account-wide, but where you place it is per-rig. A unit placed in your personal stereo is not automatically in a station, and the other way round. Changing one rig never touches the other.
Save to Radio Station
On a station rack you own, the Save to Radio Station button is what makes your changes public. Build the rack the way you want it, press the button, and from that point every listener hears the station through it. Until you press it, your tweaks are just yours.
This is the one deliberate save in the whole system. Your personal stereo saves itself silently; a station broadcast changes only when you choose to publish it.
The AI Host
Each station can have an AI Host: a character your listeners can chat with on the station page. As the owner you configure it from your station's stereo:
- Enable AI Host turns it on.
- Persona name is what the host is called.
- Personality brief is a short description of who they are and how they talk.
- Welcome message is the first thing a fan sees when they open the chat.
- Off-topic redirect is how the host steers a conversation back to music.
The host knows about your station: its music, genre, and vibe. It stays in character, keeps replies short, and points platform questions to the help pages. It is free to run while the feature is being developed out, so there is no per-message cost to you.
Building the rack
Building a station rack works exactly like building your personal one: slots, components from the store, signal order, Mix, and bypass. See Building Your Rack. The only difference is the Save button at the end.
To create a station in the first place, see Create a Broadcast Station.