Radio/media broadcast...

LoneWolf071 · 07-17-2005, 08:01 PM

I'm Wondering How To Broadcast Internet Radio From My Home... I Know About The Illegalities, It Is Mostly An Internal Network media broadcast for my home for different computer, can anyone recommend a free program to do this/?

Grove · 07-18-2005, 06:39 AM

Download Winamp > Select the Latest Release > Choose Free > Choose Bundled Pack and Download.

After you have successfully installed and downloaded Winamp you will need to download, install and configure Jetcast.

Download Jetcast

After you have succssfully installed it I will run through the configuration with you.

Configuration:

Start your Winamp, a small Jetcast box should appear, click on the hammer icon and set up as follows:

General - check the box and the sound card on your comp. will appear in the first box, the second box should say - microphone

Language - dont check this box! use the default language......

Format - check Use MP3 as streaming format, the next 2 are blank and the quality is set at 48 kbps,but you NEED to configure to 20Kbits/11025Hz STEREO

Station - Your Station Name

Homepage - Your Homepage

language - English

Genre - ?? whatever you like

Generation - N/A

Commentary - with Comment

Details - Tune in for Music , Comedy request nites and More!

*******next page*******

DJ Info - your Name , your real e-mail address and sex

*******next page*******

Time - irregular

*******next page*******

Private settings - Do not enter nothing here

*******next page *******

Title format String - the (your name ) Show .... enter http://your ip
******next Page*******

Server - Streaming port is 9000 ... Max Listeners is 8 .........do not enter anything into the config on this page!....

*******next Page*******

Directory Server - check both boxes and click ok, these changes will take place after restarting!!!!.........

RESTART!!!!!PC....... recheck ip after reboot and re-add new ip (if changed to metadata in jetcast)but most importantly REBOOT before a show .. Thanks

You will now be able to Broadcast!

Your Address is going to be as Follows - http://(your ip):9000 if you have a firewall(If you have a Firewall or Router you should allow JetCast to have access through ports 9000 9001 & 9010. ) or a router these Ports MUST be opened!!! or it will not work!

www.portfoward.com for router probs

Start winamp and load up your music, select and play a song, click on the satelite icon of the Jetcast box (the first 1) and it should flash green and say "On Air" You're Broadcasting!!!!!

As you can see the instructions above have been copy + pasted from an old archive I worked on 3 years ago. I hope they help. If you have any probems post back here

Tip: If you want to have more than 8 listeners, get a fellow user to relay you OR buy Shoutcast Server and play music 24/7.

By the way for people to tune in all they do is:

Open Winamp and press ctrl + L and paste your URL including the port. They'll be tuned into you.

Have Fun !!

LoneWolf071 · 07-18-2005, 10:46 AM

Is There A Way TO Make IT Play With Windows Media Player? I Got The Server Up And Pasted The Link Into WMplayer, but It won't connect...

**V0lt** · 07-18-2005, 10:48 AM

sometimes you have to play around with the link. Try it with winamp first, and if it doesn't work there either, you may have a port forwarding problem (but if these are on the same LAN, it'll be some other problem).

LoneWolf071 · 07-18-2005, 11:03 AM

Are There Any other apps, this one doesn't work so well, the mic feature sucks... the bitrate is way to low...

**V0lt** · 07-18-2005, 02:57 PM

You can just use Shoutcast, Nullsoft's own broadcasting server/plugin. It's a lot nicer than any other broadcast program I've seen.

Just get rid of all the other stuff except winamp and then download the stuff from Here. First download the program from "be a server", then go over and download the plugin from "be a DJ".

Grove · 07-19-2005, 12:23 AM

Yes the bitrate isn't too good on Jetcast. It is set that way so dialup users can tune in. As for Shoutcast, yeah that's another option but last time I checked it cost some $$$. There are a few programs out there. The ones that fox suggested are great

**V0lt** · 07-19-2005, 06:04 AM

Not sure if it had been a pay program, but now it's freely available. The good thing about the SC plugin is that you can change the bitrate to just about anything you can think of, mono or stereo, from 24kbps to 320kbps.

Like for instance, if you were to connect to my stream right now at http://t-radio.no-ip.org, you would hear System of a Down's Mr. Jack at 64kbps mono, which would have the integrity of a 128k stream, only not in stereo.

**johnwill** · 07-19-2005, 05:54 PM

Fox, I looked on the Shoutcast site, but it seemed to be a pay application, perhaps I didn't look hard enough?

**V0lt** · 07-19-2005, 06:14 PM

Where does it say that? I just downloaded the server app and the plugin today before my hard drive started failing... didn't see anything about paying.

**johnwill** · 07-20-2005, 05:53 PM

I'll have to look again when I get time. I wasn't that interested in broadcasting, just gathering information.