A jukebox for your house party

The problem every host knows

You set up the speakers, you queue up something decent, and then it starts: someone leaning over your shoulder asking for one more song, then someone else grabbing the laptop, then a stranger's hand on your phone. Being the DJ means you stop being at your own party.

The usual fixes are all bad. Handing over your unlocked phone is worse. A single long playlist ignores what the room actually wants. Taking requests verbally means you are the bottleneck all night.

What a shared queue changes

With Butter My Jam, your laptop stays plugged into the speakers and nobody needs to touch it. Guests scan the QR code on screen, land in the room, and add songs to the same queue from their own phones. Everyone can see what is playing and what is coming next, so the "when is my song on" question answers itself.

• No app to install. It runs in the browser your guests already have.
• No accounts. Guests type a nickname and start queueing.
• No handing over your phone. Your device stays yours.
• One audio source. Playback happens only on the host device, so nothing echoes around the room.

Keeping control when you need it

Open queues work great with friends and less great with a room full of people you half know. When you create the room, pick Host controls: guests can still add songs, but only you and the admins you promote can skip, pause, reorder, or clear the queue. Promote a friend as admin and you have a co-DJ without giving the whole room the skip button.

If you would rather nobody wanders in from the neighbours' Wi-Fi, make the room private and set a password. Guests then need both the room code and the password.

Setting up before guests arrive

1. Plug the host laptop or tablet into your speakers and open Butter My Jam.
2. Create the room, choose your control mode, and note the six-character code.
3. Leave the room page open on a screen guests can see, or print the QR code and stick it by the speakers.
4. Seed the queue with a few songs so there is music before anyone starts adding.

Keep the host tab open all night — playback lives in that tab, so closing it stops the music for everyone.

When the queue goes quiet

Late in the night people stop adding songs. The AI DJ reads what has already played and suggests tracks that fit, dropping them into the same shared queue. You can remove anything you do not want.

Start a room

Create your party room in under a minute, or read the full walkthrough. Hosting friends in different homes instead? Try a remote watch party.