24/7 stream

The broadcast comes from a machine that never stops sending. Usually that is a cheap server or a dedicated encoder box pushing a looping playlist at the ingest endpoint. The appeal is a persistent thing on the platform for people to find and sit inside, and chat gives it a room feel an ordinary upload cannot manage. The costs are real. Every track has to be cleared for this use, rights holders scan live audio the same way they scan uploads, and an outage ends the stream and its audience together.