This guide takes you from your first login to having your station playing in Everest Cast: station details, channels, DJs, music, schedule and jingles.

You log in to Everest Cast with Login to Panel on the service page (see Everest Cast: First steps).

Step 1: Station details

The first time you log in, your station isn't set up yet. At the top of the panel, next to the START/STOP buttons, click Edit Server Details. Fill in the Title, Music genre, URL and Description and click Save. Then restart with STOP and START.

Step 2: Channels

At the bottom of the main page are your station's channels, the streams your listeners tune in to. You can add channels with a different format (e.g. MP3, AAC), a different bitrate and their own listener limit.

Note: the total listeners across all channels can't exceed your package's listener limit. Otherwise you'll see an error message.

Step 3: AutoDJ and DJs

Every station starts with the AutoDJ DJ, which plays your music when no one is broadcasting live.

• For a new DJ, click DJ in the menu and then Add DJ. Add an image and a name, tick Active, set a password and click Add DJ.
• Click Edit on a DJ to change it and to see the connection details for live broadcasting. See Everest Cast: Live broadcasting.
• Priority: the connected DJ with the highest priority goes on air. AutoDJ always has the lowest. To change the order, drag the DJs in the list.

Step 4: Music

1. Go to Playlists.
2. Click Add files (or the + next to a playlist) and drag your files into the window.
3. To add them to a playlist, select them and click Add selected files to playlist. For a new playlist, click New playlist.

Good to know: everything you upload goes into the All music playlist. It plays by default and can't be deleted.

For many files at once, see Everest Cast: Uploading songs via FTP. See also the video in Everest Cast: Uploading songs and enabling AutoDJ.

Step 5: Schedule

Go to Schedule and click New event (or click an hour on the calendar). In the event you set:

• Name and Event type: one time or weekly.
• Which playlist plays, and whether it loops (Circular) or plays once.
• Interrupt the playing track: cuts what's playing so the event starts right away.
• Play jingles / Play song requests: whether jingles and listener requests play while the event runs.
• Start relay: relay another station at this time.

Click Add event to save it.

Step 6: Jingles

1. Upload your jingles under Jingles → Files.
2. Under Jingles → Jingles, click Add jingle and choose when it plays: Hourly, Daily, Between tracks, Before listener request or At playlist start.
3. Optionally enable Mix jingle (plays over the song) or Interrupt playing track.

• Groups: you sort jingles into categories, and can have a random jingle from a group play.
• Blocks: a start jingle, a playlist track and an end jingle that play together without interruption, on a day and time you set (Add new block).

Jingles apply right away, without a restart.

Finally: start your station

Click START. If everything is right, your station starts playing.