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Now playing & mark played

Mark Played is the most important button in the DJ dashboard. Here's exactly what it does.

The Now Playing card

  • Artwork — the album art of the current song, animated with a slow spin.
  • Requester and dedication — who asked for it, and their note.
  • Playback timer — how long the song has been on.
  • Mark Played — captures the payment and advances the queue.

What Mark Played does

Tapping Mark Played:

  • Sets the request's status to Played.
  • Captures the Stripe authorization — the guest is charged.
  • Fires a live notification to the guest ("Your song just played!").
  • Promotes the next queued request to Playing (unless auto-advance is off).
Heads up
If you mark a song played by mistake, use Requeue from the played history to put it back — the payment stays captured.

Manual play mode

Some venues turn off auto-advance so the DJ manually selects the next Now Playing song. Toggle this in Venue Settings → Playback.