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A video loop plays a playlist (one video or many) to your destinations on repeat. You can reorder the videos, shuffle them, add a separate audio track, schedule or repeat the loop, and change the playlist while you’re streaming.

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Add your videos

1

Open the Playlist tab

In your loop, open the Playlist tab and select Video.
2

Add videos

Pick one of these:
  • Upload a file from your computer, or drag files onto the list. MP4, MOV and MKV work. Each file can be up to 1.5 GB on a free account or 5 GB once you’ve paid. Split longer videos into parts.
  • From URL imports from Google Drive, a YouTube link or a direct download link. Streamloop fetches the file on its servers, so you can close the tab while it works. A YouTube playlist link lists its videos and you confirm which ones to import. For each video you choose a quality, and for YouTube links you can import just a section.
  • From library reuses a file you already uploaded, without uploading it again. See Library.
3

Reorder them

Drag any video to change its position. The order you see is the order it plays.
Uploads that aren’t in any playlist are removed automatically after 14 days.

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Choose how it loops

The Loop behavior section sets the order each time the playlist repeats:
  • In order: play 1 → 2 → 3, then repeat.
  • Shuffle: random order, with no repeats until every video has played.
  • Smart order: describe the order in plain words (“an intro first, then the rest”, “the news at the top of every hour”) and an AI assistant builds it. See Smart order.

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Add a separate audio track

Switch to Audio to add audio that plays over your video instead of its original sound. This suits music, radio and lofi channels. Audio can be one track or a whole playlist, with its own loop behavior.
Building a music or lofi channel? See Build a 24/7 music or lofi channel.

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Schedule when it goes live

The loop’s status panel has the Schedule and Expiration controls:
  • Schedule loop: turn this on and type a start time in plain words, like in 2h or tomorrow 9am, then click Schedule the stream. The loop shows Scheduled to start and goes live on its own. Before then you can Start now or Cancel schedule.
  • Loop expiration: set a run length or an end time, and the stream stops on its own. A run length (like 2 hours) starts counting when the stream goes live, not when you set it.
  • Start when uploads finish: the loop goes live as soon as your pending uploads are added.

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Repeat a schedule

To run the same time window again and again, set Recurrence to Daily or Weekly:
  1. Pick Daily, or pick Weekly and then the days of the week.
  2. Enter a From and To time. Times use your local time zone.
  3. Click Schedule.
The window must be shorter than 24 hours, and it can end after midnight. Each run is a normal start and stop. On a managed YouTube connection, each run gets its own YouTube broadcast. While a repeating loop runs, Stop for today ends the current run and keeps the next one scheduled. Cancel schedule also turns repeat off. If a run can’t start (for example, the destination needs reconnecting), the loop shows Repeat is paused until this is fixed. Fix the problem, then click Schedule again.

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Edit the playlist while you’re live

You don’t have to stop a running stream to change what’s playing:
1

Make your changes

While the stream is live, add, remove or reorder videos in the Playlist tab as usual. Nothing changes on air yet. Your edits are a draft.
2

Publish

Click View changes to review what’s pending, then Publish playlist. The on-air version (shown as Live (v1), Live (v2) and so on) updates without a restart. If a publish fails, click Retry publish.
Resolution and frame rate changes need a restart. While a loop is live or scheduled, you can stop sending to one of several destinations, but you can’t add one. See Multistream.