vrc.dj is a directory for the VRChat music scene: artist pages, community pages and their livesets, all using the same genre tags.
One site, two domains.
vrc.dj/[artist] is for artist and DJ pages, vrc.to/[community] for community pages. Accounts, tags, livesets and bookings are one database behind both.
Go to the profile page of an artist you're interested in. If they have booking requests enabled, you'll see a booking card above their profile card. You need a vrc.dj account, and to be in the vrc.dj Discord server with DMs from its bot allowed.
Pick a date and time, write your message, and submit. The bot delivers it to the artist's Discord DMs and sends you a DM confirming it's on its way.
The artist picks Interested or Not Interested in Discord, sometimes with a note for you. Either way, you stay notified, and you can always check the status in /bookings.
A Discord channel in the vrc.dj Discord opens for the two of you the moment the artist picks Interested. If the chat goes quiet, whoever owes a reply gets one reminder by DM, and can mute them. The chat is deleted after the event.
Join the server with DMs from it allowed, and flip the booking requests toggle on your artist page whenever you're open for requests. Booking requests stay open for 30 days.
Someone fills out the form on your artist page, and the bot notifies you about it.
Hit Interested or Not Interested right from the Discord notification, or from the website. The other person gets notified about your response. (And if you somehow haven't responded in a day, the bot will poke you about it.)
A Discord channel in the vrc.dj Discord opens for the two of you the moment you pick Interested. If the chat goes quiet, whoever owes a reply gets one reminder by DM, and can mute them. The chat is deleted after the event.
Livesets are recorded DJ performances (YouTube videos, SoundCloud uploads, etc.), linked to the artist pages of the respective performers. They keep playing inside the "Playback bar" at the bottom of the site while you're browsing.
Try it out:
To share a liveset on your artist page, you simply paste a link to its mirror on one of vrc.dj's supported platforms, and we try to fill in as much of the form as we can.
Try that out, too:
This only reads the link. Nothing is saved.
Once submitted, a liveset shows up on your artist page, the pages of collaborating artists, the attributed communities' pages, and anywhere in the directory.
vrc.dj doesn't actually host livesets. That means every liveset plays through its own platform's embedded player, and each platform comes with its own perks.
So, I took the time to put together a matrix that shows what each platform's embedded player is capable of, to help you better pick your poison:
| What you can do | YouTube | SoundCloud | Mixcloud | HearThis | Mixfall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plays on vrc.djInside the playback bar at the bottom of the page, which keeps going while you browse. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Keeps playing with the screen offOn a phone, with the screen locked or another app in front. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supports linked timestampsA link ending in ?t=12m8s starts the liveset at 12:08. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supports embedded timestampsWhere another app, site or messenger shows the liveset's player from a vrc.dj link, like Slack, Telegram or Discord (desktop only), it starts at the link's time too. | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Says why it won't playvrc.dj can read the platform's error codes. So when a liveset won't play, you get a message that tells you why. | Yes | Partly | No | No | No |
Tags are how people find you. A tag can be a genre or sub-genre, but also a mood or a scene.
#hardcore, #futurefunk and #chill are all tags. Each one has its own page listing the artists, communities and livesets that carry it.
You can have up to 12 tags on your profile. Pick the ones that describe what you do.
Yes. Use whatever tag actually fits, even if nobody on the site has used it before.
A brand-new tag may sit in review first. Once an editor has approved it, it shows up on the /tags page, in filters and in search suggestions.
These are the platforms vrc.dj deems verified, and you may only list links to these platforms on your profile. You may start using non-verified links once your account reaches the Trusted User rank.
Yes, once you're a Trusted User. From then on any URL can go in your profile links: your own site, a Patreon, a Discord invite, whatever.
Your rank is private. Only you (and admins) see it. You can check it any time on your account settings page:
There are five tiers. You move up automatically as your account gets older, owns pages and has livesets credited to it, as long as there are no mod actions against you.
What each tier unlocks:
You pick whether your pages or livesets are public, unlisted, or private. Some outside conditions may apply. Consult the chart below for a better overview:
What you chose
What else is true - you do not choose these
| Anyone | Delegate | You | Admin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listed in the directory | ||||
| Found by the site's search | ||||
| Can open page/liveset by link | ||||
| Page can be credited on a liveset | ||||
| Can edit page/liveset | ||||
| Can change who can see page/liveset |
Yes. Mixfall liveset support is live. Paste a mixfall.com/mixes/... link when submitting a liveset and it gets picked up automatically.
No. Not right now. It gets asked for a lot, and we have asked the vrc.tl maintainers. They don't plan to open an API.
Their call, so please don't pester them about it.
We have a bunch of those!
Yes, in part. I started by hand, then picked up LLMs as coding assistants, partly to learn how they work on a real project.
That being said, nothing a model writes goes in unread. Every change is reviewed and tested by a person before it ships.
Yes.
Nobody is making money off this. It exists because some people needed it.
Tips are welcome and go towards hosting.
Flag emoji: Twemoji, by Twitter, Inc, jdecked and other contributors, CC-BY 4.0. The Konami chime: "picked coin echo 2" by NenadSimic, CC-BY 4.0.
