Welcome to CastAway

CastAway is your remote broadcasting companion for AutoCast. It lets you monitor your station, fire cart buttons, control automation, and go live on the air — all from a web browser. No special software to install. Just log in, click the CastAway tab, and you're on.

Whether you're at a county fair with an iPad, calling a ball game from the press box, or doing the morning show from your favorite cafe, CastAway puts your station in your hands.

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Setting Up
What you need: a web browser, your station code and PIN, and (for live broadcasts) a microphone.
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Connecting
Log in to TuneTracker Go!, click the CastAway tab, and you're in.
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Screen Layout
Learn the three-column layout — player decks, ButtonPad, MessagePad, and more.
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Going Live
How to go live on the air from your remote location — the heart of CastAway.
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ButtonPad
Fire carts, play promos, trigger sweepers — all from the same buttons your station uses.
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Troubleshooting
Connection issues, audio problems, and common fixes.

How CastAway Works

CastAway is a remote faceplate for AutoCast. It doesn't run your station — AutoCast does that. CastAway simply shows you what AutoCast is doing and lets you send commands back. Think of it as a smart handset connected to the switchboard at the station.

When you log in, AutoCast sends you the current state: what's playing, what's coming up, your ButtonPad buttons, the weather, and a live audio feed of the station. When you press a button, CastAway sends the button ID back to AutoCast, which does the actual work. CastAway never needs to know what a button does — it just draws it and reports when you click it.

The connection between your browser and the station is brokered by TuneTracker's relay server. Your browser talks to the relay; the station's TuneTracker Go! talks to the same relay. Neither side needs to know the other's IP address or open any ports. It just works, from anywhere on the internet.

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CastAway is designed for one-person remote broadcasts. You don't need an engineer, a truck, or any hardware beyond a laptop and a microphone. Everything you need fits in a bag.

What You Need

Get the station code and PIN from your station owner or operator. Once you have them, you're ready to go.

The CastAway Philosophy

CastAway was designed with a simple principle: the station runs itself. AutoCast handles all the intelligence — scheduling, playback, crossfades, time corrections, weather forecasts. CastAway just gives you a window into that world and a way to interact with it.

This means if your internet connection drops at the county fair, AutoCast keeps playing. The station never goes silent because of a CastAway disconnection. When your connection comes back, CastAway reconnects automatically and picks up where you left off.