The 60-Day Archive
Your private safety net — go back up to 60 days to create episodes from broadcasts you missed.
What is the archive?
AutoPod records your stream continuously — not just during scheduled shows. All of this raw audio is retained for 60 days in a private rolling archive. This archive is your safety net.
The archive is not publicly accessible. Listeners cannot see or access it. It's purely an internal resource for you to create episodes retroactively.
When is the archive useful?
You forgot to add a show to the schedule. A great show aired last Tuesday but it wasn't in the schedule, so no episode was created. No problem — the audio is in the archive. Add the show, create a retroactive episode, and it's published as if it happened automatically.
A show was rescheduled. The schedule said "The Breakfast Show" at 7am but the actual show started at 7:15 because of a schedule change. You can create a new episode with the correct time window.
You want to publish something unplanned. An unexpected interview happened during a music show. You can go back, find the time window, and create a standalone episode.
An episode failed and needs to be regenerated. If automatic generation failed (rare), you can manually create the episode from the archived segments.
How it works
The process is identical to automatic episode generation — AutoPod finds the matching audio segments, stitches them together, tags the MP3, and publishes. The only difference is that you're specifying the time window manually instead of the schedule doing it.
Archive vs episode retention
These are two separate concepts:
| Archive | Episode Retention | |
|---|---|---|
| What's stored | Raw audio segments | Published episode MP3 files |
| Who can access it | Station admins only | Listeners (via player, RSS, etc.) |
| How long | Always 60 days | Depends on your plan |
| Purpose | Create episodes retroactively | Deliver content to listeners |
Think of the archive as your raw footage and episode retention as your published library. The archive is always 60 days regardless of your plan. Your plan determines how long published episodes stay available to listeners.
Limitations
- 60 days is a hard limit. After 60 days, the raw audio segments are permanently deleted. If you want to preserve a broadcast, create an episode from it before it expires.
- Audio quality matches your stream. The archive stores exactly what your stream broadcasts. If your stream is 128kbps, that's what the archive contains.
- No editing within the archive. You can't trim or edit audio in the archive. You select a time window and AutoPod creates an episode from it. To trim, edit the episode after it's been created.