Starting an Internet Radio Station

Girl Toes · Post by **Girl Toes** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:05 pm

I want to set up sort of an audio webcam on my website. I am going to plug my stereo into my computer, so you can click on a button, and have live streaming audio of what ever I'm listenig to right now.

How would I do this?? Should I have a dedicated computer??? What about speed?? I have DSL, but its slow.

What's more, how do I set it up. I know how to plug my stereo into my computer, and record audio from it. I have no idea how to make it stream over the internet. Is this hard/expensive to do??

I checked http:/www.live365.com which does stuff like this, but they have ads. I don't want ads.

Ideally, I'd like to do this all in house, without having to go through another website. Though having it stream on iTunes would be nice, but i suspect I will just do real audio.

Any one know anything???

Mr. Dipity · Post by **Mr. Dipity** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:48 pm

Lance Roma?ce wrote:I want to set up sort of an audio webcam on my website. I am going to plug my stereo into my computer, so you can click on a button, and have live streaming audio of what ever I'm listenig to right now.

How would I do this?? Should I have a dedicated computer??? What about speed?? I have DSL, but its slow.

What's more, how do I set it up. I know how to plug my stereo into my computer, and record audio from it. I have no idea how to make it stream over the internet. Is this hard/expensive to do??

I checked http:/www.live365.com which does stuff like this, but they have ads. I don't want ads.

Ideally, I'd like to do this all in house, without having to go through another website. Though having it stream on iTunes would be nice, but i suspect I will just do real audio.

Any one know anything???

1. You need to be running windows XP server OS, or Real media low-end server software.
2. You need a static ip from your ISP. You may be able to get away with some kind of dynamic referer service- such as dynip or the one that was run by stardock. Basicly, your ISP will be assigning you a new ip address every time your machine joins or leaves the network (and possibly other times, depending on the type of internet service you have) Without some kind of fixed pointer, there isn't any way to point people to your service.
3. Windows media encoder is free, I'd start there.

In other words, it's a colossal pain in the ass for such little gratification, unless you do what my buddy Maer did, and put in the time to start the world's greatest music station.

Girl Toes · Post by **Girl Toes** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:06 pm

I can't do it on a mac?? I'd be surprised.

Mr. Dipity · Post by **Mr. Dipity** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:30 am

Lance Roma?ce wrote:I can't do it on a mac?? I'd be surprised.

Do which part exactly?

spankenstein · Post by **spankenstein** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:00 am

Look for Shoutcast and Icecast.

Girl Toes · Post by **Girl Toes** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:25 am

sserendipity wrote: Do which part exactly?

sserendipity wrote:You need to be running windows XP server OS, or Real media low-end server software.

musicjon · Post by **musicjon** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:55 am

NiceCast looks like what you want.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/

Mr. Dipity · Post by **Mr. Dipity** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:58 am

Lance Roma?ce wrote:
sserendipity wrote: Do which part exactly?

sserendipity wrote:You need to be running windows XP server OS, or Real media low-end server software.

You'll need >some< kind of media server. The only real fix thing is that you need a static ip address.

As mentioned, shoutcast may be a way to go, if you intend to create a streaming playlist (come to think of it, everybody I know who is doing this seems to be using shoutcast - I am sorry I didn't mention it).

I am unaware of a live media encoder/server that runs on the Mac. There are Unix versions however, so it is quite probable.

Mr. Dipity · Post by **Mr. Dipity** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:59 am

musicjon wrote:NiceCast looks like what you want.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/

Excellent!

musicjon · Post by **musicjon** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:02 am

Let us all know when you're up and running. I'll give it a listen!

Girl Toes · Post by **Girl Toes** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:07 am

Thanks!!! That looks very good, I am looking into it.

I'm not broadcasting iTunes though, broadcasting from my record player. So for playlists, youll just have to write me and ask.

Girl Toes · Post by **Girl Toes** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:06 am

Ok, I've got it "boradcasting" and streaming and all, but still havingtrouble.

The URL is http://63.212.166.222:8000/playlist.pls but I can't get it to work.

I am listed at http://www.rogueamoeba.net/streams/inde ... %20Streams under "Lance Roma?ce's Broadcast". That doesn't work either.

I get the following error when i run a server check:
Server Checker encountered error:
socket.error: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Something is obviously working if I'm listed on their webpage, but I have no idea why it doesn't work.

I am just rebroadcasting local radio now to test it.

Any help to get this going would be greatly appreciated.

kcrusher · Post by **kcrusher** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:59 pm

Are you using a router or are you behind a firewall?

Girl Toes · Post by **Girl Toes** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:27 pm

bombastique wrote:Are you using a router or are you behind a firewall?

I don't know.

I just have DSL, what's a router?

Girl Toes · Post by **Girl Toes** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:39 pm

Ok, it SEEMS to work, if anyone can try http://192.168.1.117:8000/playlist.pls and let me know what happens

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