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Creating an Internet Radio Station Using Shoutcast
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By:NeonSavior
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So you want to make an internet Radio station but can't decipher the Long Broadcasting
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Documents. or shoutcast instructions?. Then heres your chance. this guide will show you
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how to create a Shoutcast Radio station, without the hassle of actually knowing what your
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doing.
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1.Installation of needed components.
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Ok this is the Easy part ok. all you need to do right now is download Both the
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SHOUTCAST Plug in for windows and the SHOUTCAST DNAS SERVER*. which both can be downloaded
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from www.shoutcast.com
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On the site it tells you that plug in only works for winamp 2.x but this is not really
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the case because i've found out that it works great for 5.0 as well. I'm sure this
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will be corrected on the site at some point. so download the plug-in and once you have it
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downloaded install it like any other piece of software. Now keep in mind that it wont
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appear in your program files because its not a regular program and has been installed in
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you winamp directory.
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If you have successfully downloaded and installed the plug-in, If you have found a server
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on the net on which to host your music. cool then skip this part. but otherwise you must
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Download and install the SHOUTCAST DNAS server to run on your own computer., this will turn
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your machine into a server and then broadcasts your station\s to shoutcast central.
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Just install this program to your computer. this will show up in your programs directory.
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If you have followed the instructions so far its time to move on to part two.
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2.Configuring the Plug in.
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Now that you have installed all the components you must now set up the plug-in to
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Send info to your server. The first step is to Turn on your Shoutcast server., it will
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display a bunch of information that is really of no use to you yet so disregard it.
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Now that the server is on you must start winamp.(hopefully you have version 5.)
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In the winamp menu Choose preferences and Under the plug-ins menu Choose preferences.,
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now in the preferences window choose Dsp there will be a plug-in titled Shoutcast Source
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and the version number. Choose this.
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Now a window will pop-up Called shoutcast source and will have several tab menus. were going
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left to right now so the first window is the main window which is nothing but a list of
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locations your output is going., and under that will be two decibel meters
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none will be active unless your playing a song.
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Second window will be called "output" this is the most important window. This controls
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how your station will broadcast. Be sure that unless you have a server on the web that none
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of these settings get changed. the address is for the address of the server you'll be using
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so if your using your computer as a server don't change it from: localhost the port is whatever
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Port your server is configured for, and unless you changed in the CONFIG of your server the
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port will be: 8000, the Password doesn't need to be changed unless you changed it in the config
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of your server. but incase you changed it anyway the original Password is: Changeme , For the encoder
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if its not already chosen choose encoder 1. Now that that is taken Care of Choose the button
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labeled yellow pages and Fill out the information as you choose.
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Now the next menu is "encoder" for encoder 1 choose Mp3 and then under that choose at the Bandwith you
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wish to broadcast at.(for information about users and bandwith you should check the read me)
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after that the last menu is "input" and all you need to do for the time is choose winamp if it not already
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Chosen. thats it and we're ready to broadcast.
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3.Broadcasting.
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Now that everything is installed and configured all we need do Now is enjoy the
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Fun of internet radio. To start broadCasting right away you need to have your server and winamp
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Running at the same time. Go into the YellowPages and fill out all the info you want people to
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see when they see your station and once your done with that Just start playing a song and Click
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Connect in the Shoutcast box. thats it your in buissness once you see the connection box begin
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to send bytes of info that means that its working.
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Now your Server will go nuts and display a bunch of Information Ranging everything from your connection Speed
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and all of your yellow pages information and If your Successfull it will say something like
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"Yp.shoutcast.com has added me.". after that it will just display information about your listeners and
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status on shoutcast. thats it nothing to worry about.
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4.Troubleshooting.
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"my server gives me an error like: Isp cache\firewall\internet..."- This
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Means that you have something between your computer and the digital world
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that is blocking your server from getting out. so you must configure your
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fire wall to let it out.(im sorry i cant help you with the other possiblitys, just try changing your
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settings.)
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"im not getting any listeners."-the Server Displays listeners as an ip address and some connection
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information and nothing more. perhaps you missed that or maybe your playing rap?
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"My computer is too slow when i use the server!"-Get more ram. or lower your max listeners in the Config
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on the server. because each listener takes up a certain amount of ram, and bandwith.
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5.Advanced.
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Broadcasting Live voice: Change your input from winamp to soundcard. thats it and then just
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find a progam that records voice but be warned that this will also let the listners hear
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all of your system sounds and this can be very annoying.
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Playing a Cd.: You can Broadcast the contents of a cd by changing your input to souncard and playing the cd normaly.
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Automation: You can automate the station by simply making a play list and then playng it
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normaly. Even though your not at the controls it will still Work. |