Radio veteran runs internet station fully automated for 8 weeks, shares key lessons

Yaniv Morozovsky, a radio professional with over 30 years of experience, handed full control of one of his internet stations to automation on 13 July and left it running unattended for eight weeks. He found that precise per-song crossfade analysis — mapping intro, vocal entry, and outro points — was the single biggest factor in making the station sound like a live DJ rather than a jukebox. A cloned AI voice was used for hourly breaks, weather, and news, with timing relative to the vocal entry proving more important than the voice quality itself. Rule-based music scheduling, covering key, tempo, energy, era, and artist separation, replaced traditional clockwheels and eliminated common bugs like song repetition. Morozovsky has since turned the system into a commercial product called yStream Studio, believing automated broadcasting is the direction small internet stations are heading.