This gives you some very interesting possibilities. My plugin can be used with SHOUTcast (old versions didn't, but newer do). The recommended setting is Winamp, which is a very straightforward setting, but the SoundCard can actually be very nice, although you may have to try a bit before you get it working, it will provide you with a very easy way to do voice-overs and to get crossfading working (if you use Winamp as input, the crossfading output plugin doesn't have any effect). First of all you might want to change the password and/or port of your SHOUTcast server, the password is needed by the SHOUTcast DSP plugin to connect to the server, so if you change it in the sc_serv.ini file, you also have to change it in the configuration dialog of the plugin (the output tab).įurthermore you might want to more carefully select an encoder setting, 128kbps 44100Hz stereo is quite sufficient for most applications, but if you for some reason need more quality you can go higher, and if you need less bandwidth consumption, you can set it to a lower setting.Īnd then there is the extremely interesting Input configuration of the plugin. There are some very interesting SHOUTcast options that you might want to know about. Play (before you do that, you might want to select the Null Output plugin).Select the SHOUTcast DSP plugin and configure it (you need to setup one output and one encoder, the rest of the options can be left to their defaults), for details on this, read the readme that comes with the plugin.Run the SHOUTcast server (you might first want to change its settings by modifying its ini file, more on this can be found in the readme that comes with the server and the on the shoutcast site).Install the SHOUTcast server (on the computer that is going to broadcast) and Winamp plugin (on the computer that is going to be used for generating the content).The easiest way to setup SHOUTcast is to: It works by compressing the sound with the DSP plugin, then sending it to the server, which then serves it to the world (or for example your home). The SHOUTcast server, which serves all of your listeners can even be installed on a different computer than the one Winamp is one (it can even be installed under Linux). SHOUTcast seperates the real broadcasting from Winamp. If you want to use any external devices to broadcast from, this is the time to connect them (see the Devices section). You might also want to download the Nullsoft Null Output plugin, which you can select while broadcasting, so you won't hear the sound (as strange as it may seem, sometimes this can be very usefull).įurthermore you obviously need a connection to broadcast over, this can be anything, I myself use SHOUTcast to broadcast over my home network, but broadcasting over the internet is a definite possibility, although you will need enough bandwidth to broadcast a decent signal (ISDN is the bare minimum, if you would have only one or two users and are prepared to give up all of your bandwidth to SHOUTcast).Īnd you need some material to broadcast of course, this can be anything that can be played by Winamp (except for WMA), although you do have copyrights to wory about (especially when broadcasting over the internet). Broadcasting is a lot more difficult, but once you get the hang of it, it is not that difficult.įirst of all you need two things from, the latest shoutcast plugin for Winamp (I will be talking about v1.8.2a) and the shoutcast server (same version), these can be downloaded from the download page on, but the plugin is in the DJ section and the other one in the server (?) section. SHOUTcast gives you the possibility of having your own internet radio station, or to receive internet radio broadcasts of course, but that's something everybody with Winamp installed can do. LineIn plugin for Winamp 2/5 Documentation - SHOUTcast setup Jasper's LineIn plugin for Winamp 2/5 Documentation - SHOUTcast setup
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