[microsound] Re: affordable internet radio broadcasting?

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

hi Dale,

if you aren't interested in setting up your own server [with Shoutcast 
or Icecast] then you will probably have to use a commercial provider. I 
played around with live365.com many years ago, and I just pulled up 
their rates to see [it used to be free with a low number of listeners]:

https://store.live365.com/orders/orderform.live

One problem with Live365 is that you are paying ASCAP, BMI and SESAC 
royalties on the music you play, even if it is all your own content or 
content from your label which you have rights to anyway.

For a full expose on the evils of this licensing system, check the next 
link. Jamie Zawinkski runs the live audio webstreams for the DNA Lounge 
in San Francisco, and I'd recommend anyone interested in web radio to 
check his article out:

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/webcasting.html

To use Shoutcast, you will have to have a server somewhere running it, 
and also a client which plays your clips and streams them to the server. 
These can be seperate machines, or you can have the music all played 
from the same machine which serves the streams to the listners.

I would recommend *not* using windoze XP on that machine [or windoze at 
all]! Also, I recommend taking a look at Icecast over Shoutcast, as 
Icecast is free, open source and also has a binary for the version of 
windoze you are using.

http://www.icecast.org/download.php

There are many clients which will stream to Icecast. Winamp, for 
example, has a Shoutcast plugin, and it may also support Icecast by now. 
But there are many others. I used a PD patch with a streaming object to 
run the webstream for soundscape-fm.net [which is unfortunately without 
a streaming server at this moment :-( ]

good luck,
d.


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