The Auto DJ fills the silence.
Your guests are dancing rather than typing, and the queue runs dry. The Auto DJ notices, reads the genres played so far and adds tracks that fit. Nobody has to remember it.
It steps in when nothing is left.
The moment the queue is empty and the current track ends, the Auto DJ takes over. It looks at what has already played at this event, works out the most common genres and finds matching tracks — in the Apple Music catalogue and, if you have shared your own folders in Juqed Web, in those as well.
It is not a stored playlist grinding through. What your guests voted up in the first hour shapes what it suggests in the second.
Because a gap kills the room.
Requests arrive unevenly. Everything at once early on, then half an hour of nothing in the middle of the night because everyone is busy. Without an Auto DJ every one of those pauses becomes silence — and silence at a party is expensive.
So the Auto DJ is not an extra. It is the condition that makes letting people decide practical at all. Without it somebody would always have to be watching.
Five sources — three for everyone, two with Gold.
- History-based — it remembers what landed well at this event and leans that way. The longer the party runs, the better its aim. The one to pick if you are unsure.
- Genre-based — you set the direction, say rock or chart music, and it stays inside it. For events with a theme the music should not break out of.
- Apple Music playlists — it treats your own playlists as its pool and shuffles them fresh. Sounds like you, without you standing at the device.
- Autopilot (with Juqed Gold) — it plays like a DJ rather than strictly in order: whatever fits right now. Your own requests carry more weight.
- Curated playlists (with Juqed Gold) — over 70 hand-picked collections, so you hit the right tone with no preparation.
- You can switch source at any time, including mid-event when the mood turns.
- And your own library? — it is not a sixth source but a second pool the existing ones draw from. It reads which folders and genres the evening has run on so far and reaches back in the same proportion.
Three switches you rarely touch.
- Starting genre — at the beginning there is no history to read, so it uses this as its starting point. Pop by default; “Indie” for a dorm party, “Jazz” for a café.
- No self-reference — its own picks do not feed back into the taste analysis. Without that guard it would confirm itself and start going in circles.
- Repeat guard — it never adds the same track twice in one event. A guest may request a track again; the Auto DJ may not.
- Your own tracks, yes or no — a switch of its own in Juqed Web: “Let the auto DJ play your own tracks”. With it off, your files play only when a guest requests them. On its own it skips anything under two minutes or over twelve anyway — jingles, intros and whole DJ sets stay put.
- And off — one switch. Then only what guests suggest and vote up will play. Useful when you want to curate a stretch yourself.
What people ask about the Auto DJ.
When exactly does the Auto DJ step in?
As soon as the queue is empty and the current track ends. While requests are pending it stays out of the way.
Does it play the same track twice?
No. It never adds the same track twice in one event. A guest can request a track again — the guard applies only to the Auto DJ.
Can I switch it off entirely?
Yes, with one switch in the settings. Then only what guests suggest and vote up will play.
How does it know what fits?
It analyses what has already played at this event and looks for tracks in the same genres. At the very start, with nothing to analyse, it uses the starting genre you set.
Does it reach into my own music too?
In Juqed Web yes, if you have shared folders. A switch of its own turns that off; your files then play only when a guest requests them.
What do the two Gold sources add?
Autopilot plays like a DJ rather than strictly in order, and your own requests carry more weight. On top of that come over 70 curated playlists. Both need Juqed Gold; the other three sources are in every event.