Host sign-in
This account is not a Studio host. Aura Studio is private — Joe approves its hosts personally.
Your studio sessions
Shortcut keys: press N — or Control+Alt+N — to start a new session with the show profile and session type picked above. The Control+Alt form works with the JAWS virtual cursor left on.
Your new session is open
Your session code is
Send your guest the invite below. The words Join the show are the link — the address stays under the hood — and the code is separate, the way it should be.
Invite link, for pasting anywhere:
Profiles and soundboard library
Your soundboard library
Your clips live in your account, on boards — the same idea as your Farrago sets. Boards belong to a show profile: one profile per show, holding that show's jingles and effects. In a session, the board's clips sit on keys (the number row, then the QWERTY row, in board order) and on buttons; press one and the clip plays into the room and onto the master recording, while everyone's own track stays clean.
Pick a profile to work with its boards. A session opened under a profile shows only that profile's boards on its soundboard.
Prep sheet
Music library
Your music library
Your songs, on the studio's own music drive, in your account only. Upload whole albums here before the show. In a radio session, you queue tracks from this library into the player and the audience hears them on the program. Previewing a track and setting its start point happen in your headphones only — a preview never reaches the room, the audience, or any recording.
Shortcut key: Control+Alt+L jumps straight to the library search below from anywhere in the studio.
Clock wheels
A clock wheel is the plan for one whole show: segments of minutes, each with filters you stack — a decade AND a genre AND a BPM range, as specific as you like. In a radio session it builds your queue for you, counting Mixcloud's Featured Artist Rules as it goes (at most 4 songs by one artist in a show, at most 3 in a row; at most 3 from one album, at most 2 in a row). Wheels belong to a show profile, the way boards do.
Broadcast setup
Broadcast destinations
Going live in a radio session always reaches your listeners — and where they hear it depends on the destination you choose when you go live. With no outside destination, the show plays on the Listen Live web player. With Mixcloud chosen, listeners hear the show on Mixcloud instead: the Listen Live page links there and does not play the show itself. You can also send the show to one outside destination, chosen when you go live. Save the details here once — they stay on the server, and this page never sees the secrets again.
Mixcloud
Your Mixcloud stream key is on your Mixcloud live page. Paste it here once and Mixcloud becomes a destination for every show.
Another Icecast server
For shows on somebody else's station — ACB Media, for example. Paste in the server details they gave you: the name you want to call it, the server address, port, mount point, and the source password.
Join as a guest
Heads up: Aura Studio sessions may be recorded by the host.
One more thing: if you get in and cannot hear anyone, look for the "Turn sound on" button on the page and press it — browsers, especially on iPhones, hold the sound back until you do. You only have to do it once.
Waiting room
You are in the waiting room. Your host has been told you are here, and will let you in shortly. Keep this page open. And if you cannot hear anyone once you are in, look for the "Turn sound on" button and press it.
Show materials
Your host may share readings for this session — the rundown, an article the show is about. Type your name and the session code above, then press the button to read them — before you knock, while you wait, any time.
Show materials
Session — in the studio
Your browser is blocking sound from this session, so you cannot hear anyone yet.
This session may be recorded.
Recording
Recording is off.
When recording is on, your browser also keeps a backup recording of your own voice on this device, and uploads it when recording stops. The backup only counts if this tab stays open until the upload finishes — if you close the tab early, the backup is lost.
Radio — who is on air
Nobody is on air. The audience hears the soundboard and clips only.
You are off air — the audience cannot hear you, but everyone in this room can.
As host, you can also put each guest on or off air from the People list below.
This is a radio session. The room is your talkback: everyone here hears each other all the time, whether or not they are on air. The audience — and the broadcast's own recording — hear only the soundboard, the clips, and the people switched ON AIR.
Phone callers
While the show is live, listeners who call the show's phone number wait here. A caller on hold hears the show — the music, the jingles, and everyone who is on air — and cannot be heard. Talk privately lets you and everyone in the studio talk with a caller off air, to screen them: the audience and the recording hear none of it. Bring a caller on air when you are ready: they will hear the show without their own voice in it, and everyone in this room will hear them too.
No callers waiting.
Queue and music library
Music player
No music is playing.
The Play button is one button with one name — "Play or pause the music" — whether the music is playing or paused; the line above it always says which. Shortcut key: Control+Alt+P does the same, and pressed on a song in the library or the queue, it plays that song now.
The queue
Songs in this list play in order. When you are on air, this is what your listeners hear; you hear it in your headphones either way. Songs play in order when they are checked. New songs arrive unchecked — check the ones you want in this run, then press Enter on the first one. Playback stops at the first unchecked song — it never skips one.
Shortcut key: Control+Alt+C jumps straight to this queue from anywhere in the studio.
Shortcut key: Control+Alt+P plays or pauses the music. Press it while a song in the library list below, or an item in the queue, has focus, and it plays that song now. In the queue itself, Enter on a row plays that row — and Enter on the song playing now pauses or resumes it — while Space on a row checks or unchecks that song. Control+Alt+L jumps to the library search below.
End-of-track cues — just for your ears
These cue sounds are for your ears only and are separate from the queue — they never become part of the program or any recording. The songs in the queue do play to the room and, when you are on air, to your listeners.
Your music library
Song requests
Go live
Live broadcast
This session is not being broadcast live.
When Mixcloud is the destination, listeners hear the show on Mixcloud — the Listen Live page links there instead of playing it here.
Shortcut key: Control+Alt+G jumps to the Go live button from anywhere in the session. It only moves focus — going live still takes a press.
Going live sends everything in this session — voices, the soundboard and clips — out over the web as it happens, on the Listen Live section of joedgreen.com. Anyone can listen; listeners cannot speak or join. Recording is separate: going live does not start a recording, and recording does not go live.
Going live sends the radio program — the soundboard, clips, and only the people switched ON AIR — out over the web as it happens, on the Listen Live section of joedgreen.com. Off-air talk stays in this room. Anyone can listen; listeners cannot speak or join.
Profiles and soundboard
Soundboard
Nothing is playing.
Prep sheet
Play a clip
Bring a moment into the session: paste a link — YouTube, or a link straight to an audio or video file — or choose a file from this device. It plays into the session as sound only; a video contributes its soundtrack, never a picture. Prepared clips belong to this session and are thrown away when it ends, unless you save one to your soundboard library.
Times are seconds, or minutes:seconds — like 90, or 1:30. Leave both blank to play the whole clip.
Saving uses the start and end times above, and puts the clip on the board you are showing.
Show materials
The readings shared with everyone in this session — the rundown and anything the show is about.
Show materials
Waiting room
Nobody is waiting.
Session controls
Shortcut keys: press D — or Control+Alt+D — to end the session for everyone: press once, then press it again within five seconds to confirm. The Control+Alt form works with the JAWS virtual cursor left on.
People in the session
Noise cleaning isn’t available in this browser — your microphone is live without it.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every shortcut in the studio, in one list. The Control+Alt forms work with the JAWS virtual cursor left on; plain letters work when your screen reader passes them through.
- Start a new session (from your studio home): N, or Control+Alt+N.
- End the session for everyone: D, or Control+Alt+D — press once, then again within five seconds to confirm.
- Play or pause the music: Control+Alt+P. On a song in the library or the queue, Control+Alt+P — or Enter on a queue row — plays that song now.
- In the queue list: Enter plays the row you are on, and pauses or resumes the song playing now; Space checks or unchecks the row you are on; Alt+Up and Alt+Down move it; Delete takes it out. Every queued row also has the same “Actions for” button, opening the same row actions — including New song, New artist, and Same artist on a song placed by a clock.
- Queue checkboxes: every song in the queue has its own checkbox, reached by Tab from its row, and every song arrives unticked. Space on a row — or on the checkbox itself — ticks or unticks that song; Space never plays or pauses anything, and ticking a box never affects the song playing now. Ticked songs play in order; playback stops at the first unticked song — an unticked song is never skipped. Pressing Enter on any row still plays that song at once, ticked or not, and Enter on the song playing now pauses or resumes it.
- Go to the queue: Control+Alt+C. Go to the music library search: Control+Alt+L. Go to the Go live button: Control+Alt+G — it only moves focus; going live is still a press, twice.
- Monitor volume: Control+Alt+plus raises it, Control+Alt+minus lowers it.
- Soundboard clips: their buttons, the plain keys (1 to 0, then Q to P, then A), the same keys with Control+Alt, or the number keys with Control+Shift.
- Soundboard banks: Alt+1, Alt+2 and so on, or Control+Alt+Page Up and Control+Alt+Page Down to step through them.
- Show profiles: Control+Alt+comma and Control+Alt+period step through them.
- Command palette: Control+Shift+P, or Control+K — every command in the studio, searchable.
100 percent
Monitor volume is yours alone: it changes only what you hear in your own headphones — never the broadcast, a recording, or anyone else in the session — and your screen reader is not affected. Shortcut keys: Control+Alt+plus raises it and Control+Alt+minus lowers it, from anywhere in the session.
Preview and set the start point
This preview plays only in your headphones. It never reaches the room, the audience, or any recording. Find the moment the song should start on air — skip a long talk-in, land on the first drumbeat — and set the start point there. The player remembers it for this track from then on, and its timing — the crossfade, the end-of-track cues, the play log — all counts from that point.