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I'm trying to set up shoutcast for a personal mp3 stream, but it's all talking about a DNAS and I can't seem to find anywhere that has the info. Nullsoft doesn't host. If I have a domain, can I just set something to point to it and that will work? Someone offer me some guidance, please. --- Household Names - great pop music is not a contradiction New EP - "Hold On Tight!" from Sonic Therapy. http://www.sonictherapy.net http://www.householdnames.org "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

To answer your question - no, you cannot point to a domain and host. You must either a) host the stream yourself or b) pay someone else to host it for you. If you plan on hosting it yourself, a static IP address would come in handy. Keep in mind that your bitrate and number of listeners is limited to your upload bandwidth and by "yourself" I mean effectively off your home computer. For help see the following URLs: There's pretty extensive documentation available on the Shoutcast Website: http://www.shoutcast.com/support/docs/ and the forum http://forums.winamp.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=140 *** Thanks, managed to figure it out on my own. You know what the great thing about open source and such is? None of the programs are easy to use! I should switch my computer-retard Mom over to Linux immediately, if not sooner! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:40:20 -0500, Andrew Hime wrote:

quoted 3 lines I'm trying to set up shoutcast for a personal mp3 stream, but it's all

>I'm trying to set up shoutcast for a personal mp3 stream, but it's all >talking about a DNAS and I can't seem to find anywhere that has the info. >Nullsoft doesn't host. If I have a domain, can I just set something to

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quoted 1 line to it and that will work? Someone offer me some guidance, please.

>to it and that will work? Someone offer me some guidance, please.

although this is OT, maybe someone else is interested in my 2 cents, so here I go: here is how internet streaming basically works: source computer (home) -----> relay service ====> many listeners the 'source computer' sends the music (stream) to the relay station which then sends the stream to all connected listeners. that way you need to send the stream only once (bandwidth depending on the bitrate of the stream of course) and the real work is done by the relay. once you have your source computer set up (running icecast or the disgusting winamp with its unholy shoutcast) you need to find a relay station you can afford. Green Witch (http://www.greenwitch.com) offered relay services for free (not too many listeners supported and somethimes a bit laggy). they seems to have been incorporated into xiph.org (the pals that invented OGG Vorbis). unfortunately I can't find any indications how to reach the green witch sub-project on the xiph site, so it may have been dropped it or its currently offline. as GW is now 'xiph', they probably will not allow mp3 streaming and favour OGG Vorbis, which isn't so bad because Vorbis has much better audio quality than mp3, especially with low bitrates. hopefully there are other free relays. music players (for Windows) that support Vorbis streaming are to my knowledge: DeliPlayer2 (release candidate 3) (http://www.deliplayer.com), my absolute favorite Winamp (http://www.wimamp.com) .ca -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org