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Everplay (@Everplaydj) is Echo's booth. Original DJ sets composed by code, every transition named on screen, hosted by Echo the axolotl DJ. This page holds the strategy, the logs and the content management for the channel. No media is stored in Notion. Every file lives on this Mac, and each piece in the Content Pipeline database carries its local path.

Project folder: /Users/thunderbolt/Documents/projects/AIDJ

Media folder: /Users/thunderbolt/Documents/projects/AIDJ/youtube-channel/content/

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Production status

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All 100 pieces are produced and ready to upload (rendered 18 Oct 2026). Every piece passed the automatic QA, and the upload copy was audited against the real audio and video. Nothing has been uploaded to YouTube or Notion: media is on this Mac and every row below has its local path.

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598 original tracks and 523 DJ transitions are in the sets. Every piece has a thumbnail (long-form 1280x720; Shorts also have a 1080x1920 cover), a paste-ready UPLOAD.md, a provenance record, a QA record and a claims-audit record. See the Content Pipeline database below (one row per piece) and Channel Logs for what was built, fixed and decided.

Before you upload anything

• [ ] Listen. Nobody could listen to the audio. Audition at least the first and last minute of every long set and a few Shorts. The desi pieces especially need your ear (decision D8).
• [ ] Settle the open decisions below, especially D1 (launch date and time zone: all times are plain clock times), D2 (no app link until the app has a public landing), D3 (AI-use label), D4 (how Echo's art was made).
• [ ] Poll-dependent pieces: 016 Request Night and its announcement 093 need the five winning vibes after poll 085; 095 has four ready plant-name images for the winner of poll 078; Shorts 053 and 054 were rendered with their default vibes.
• [ ] Study With Echo (007, 008): the planned on-screen timer ring was never built; the copy now says bring your own timer. Decide whether to build it.
• [ ] Free some disk space. The disk is 99% full (15 GB free). Move youtube-channel/content/ to an external drive after uploading, or delete the old temp folders mentioned in Channel Logs.
• [ ] Replace {{LINK:NNN}} placeholders with real YouTube URLs as pieces go live (each UPLOAD.md lists which).

Where everything is on disk

The channel in one paragraph

Positioning: "Music that never stops, and a DJ you can watch." Everplay is Echo's booth: original DJ sets composed by code, with every transition named on screen. Unlike a lofi loop that sounds the same at hour three, every set has a shape. Unlike chart-song mixes, all of it is ours to share. The audience hires the channel for three jobs: background (study, code, read, clean), energy (gym, drive, party) and curiosity ("how does a DJ blend two songs?").

• Two engines. Long sets (Night Shift, Study With Echo, Quiet Rooms, Move Mode) bring watch hours. Shorts and Echo (Echo's Moves, Echo After Dark, Type a Vibe) bring subscribers and recognition. Judge them by different metrics.
• Titles are search phrases, not brand names. People type "study with me 2 hours", "coding music", "night drive music instrumental", "dj transitions for beginners". Series names go on screen and in descriptions.
• Arithmetic correction. 8,000 watch hours is about 22 hours a day, roughly one average concurrent viewer. Subscribers (1,000) are the likelier bottleneck, not hours.
• Monetization is a later bonus. Do not optimise for it before the audience exists.