AutoCast Reviews & Product Details

⏺ TuneTracker Systems builds professional radio automation software designed natively for the Mac. Founded over 25 years ago, the company has been a quiet fixture in Mac-based broadcast technology — serving commercial stations, LPFMs, college and high school radio, Christian broadcasters, internet stations, and podcasters around the world. The flagship product is System 7, an integrated suite of broadcast tools that runs entirely on macOS. At its core is AutoCast, the on-air automation engine that handles music and traffic scheduling, voice-tracking, live assist, and 24/7 unattended playback. AutoCast can run a station hands-off through overnight and weekend hours, blend pre-recorded voice tracks with live announcers during day parts, manage traffic logs, fire jingles and weather inserts on cue, and reconcile logs at the end of the broadcast day. Around AutoCast sit the rest of the System 7 components: - ClockWork — format clocks and hourly program structure. Build the spine of your station's sound with rotation rules, dayparts, and program logs that drive what AutoCast plays hour by hour. - Librarian — music library management. Catalog, tag, and organize tens of thousands of songs and audio assets, with metadata-driven scheduling controls feeding directly into ClockWork and AutoCast. - SignalCaster — internet streaming. Push your station's signal to listeners over the open internet, with built-in encoding and metadata pass-through to streaming aggregators. Beyond the core, TuneTracker offers a growing family of add-ons: AirStaff (voice talent management), FetchIt (audio acquisition and prep tools), TuneVault (long-term media archiving), VoiceTracker (remote and asynchronous voice-tracking workflows), TimeTemp (live time, temperature, and weather elements), and DayTracker (continuous on-air logging for compliance and program review). Each integrates natively with the System 7 core so a station can grow its capabilities incrementally instead of replacing its automation system every few years. What sets TuneTracker apart from the major Windows-based competitors is the platform itself: System 7 is genuinely Mac-native, not a Windows app squeezed onto macOS through emulation or virtualization. Stations run it on the iMacs and Mac minis their staff already use — no specialized rack-mount appliance, no Windows tower, no platform-conversion learning curve. The result is a quieter, smaller, more reliable studio at a fraction of the typical capital cost, with the look and feel of the Mac apps your team already knows. System 7 is offered in two tiers: Basic at $299 (single-station, complete automation) and Pro at $999 (multi-station, full feature set, networked operation). Both are one-time purchases, with no monthly subscription. Educational pricing is available for college and high school radio stations, and special programs exist for non-profit and Christian broadcasters. TuneTracker Systems is privately held and operated by founder Dane Scott, who personally handles product direction, support, and development — a rare degree of accessibility for a software vendor of this longevity, and one of the reasons stations stay with TuneTracker for decades.