Need advice on streaming etc...

[kai]

Hi all,


Just thought I'd ask if anyone has any helpful advice regarding streaming live sets to the internet.

Basically, I am planning to set-up a Hard Life & Techno Prisoners web radio show, where we wish to stream the show live to the net.

I have plenty of webspace (just under 1Gb spare), and know that I will need WinAMP.

What other software will I require? How do I go about setting the whole thing up? Any other useful hints/tips?

Any and all help very gratefully received!

Kind regards

Kai

[Barely Human]

The eaisest way is to use something like shout cast - www.shoutcast.com, but you will need a server to connect to with shoutcast server software set up if you will want to have more than something like 12 listeners at once. These are notoriuos for being system hogs and most host's will not install them, so its either find someone offeing shoutcast hosting, or get your own server and set it all up.

The difference in price, quality, and how many listeners you can have will vary drastically what ever solution you go for. If you want to stream cd quality music to a lot of people, then it can get expensive very very quickly due to bandwidth costs. If you do a search on google you should find some intresting stuff come back if you dig around for a bit.

[kai]

Cool - thanks for that Al, gives me some food for thought!