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Furiously
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on: October 04, 2007, 09:26:30 PM

Looking to stream some live music a couple nights a week to a crowd of 50 or so people. Anyone know of any good sources?

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Reply #1 on: October 05, 2007, 01:49:55 PM

A friend of mine runs armitunes, and he's got it all configured nifty-like with geeklog frontend, request abilities, relay servers, all that jazz. You can check out his setup at the link.

He uses Icecast, an open source streamer running on a shoutcast server. You don't get more affordable than that.

My buddy says:

04:53PM <Souichiro> he's best served by setting up a shoutcast server on windows and using winamp with the shoutcast DSP plugin
04:53PM <Souichiro> no code to fuss with just put stuff in a playlist and press play
04:53PM <Souichiro> so long as he has enuff b/w for 50 listeners
04:53PM <Souichiro> figure a t1 services 8 to 10 listeners @ 128kbit mp3
04:54PM <Souichiro> i recommend using aac+ to maximize b/w, you can stream at 48kbit instead of 128kbit and get the same sound quality. winamp5 supports aac+ streaming
04:55PM <Souichiro> there's a liveinput plugin to the winamp DSP thing
04:55PM <Souichiro> it'll stream whatever comes into the soundcard
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Reply #2 on: October 05, 2007, 03:03:07 PM

Unfortunately I don't have that sort of bandwidth. A remote musician will have winamp configured to broadcast into the stream. I'll be able to provide only one "http://" link to the music.

That is an impressive set up they have for serving the music though.

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Reply #3 on: October 05, 2007, 03:06:20 PM

PeerCast.
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Reply #4 on: October 05, 2007, 04:47:25 PM

Icecast should work as well. It's free. http://www.icecast.org/

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Reply #5 on: October 05, 2007, 10:21:48 PM

I need to provide a http:// link.

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Reply #6 on: October 06, 2007, 06:01:04 AM

I need to provide a http:// link.

Uhm. You can link to anything, provide a link to a page that has a link on it to the steam.
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Reply #7 on: October 06, 2007, 01:02:02 PM

I need to provide a http:// link.

Uhm. You can link to anything, provide a link to a page that has a link on it to the steam.

The URL that works for an MP3 player may not work in Second Life. If you URL is http://example.com:8000/listen.pls you should use the URL http://example.com:8000 in Second Life.

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Reply #8 on: October 06, 2007, 03:24:25 PM

Why didn't you say you wanted to stream to Second Life? If you've read the Wiki page on streaming music into SL then you already know what you need. If you don't have the bandwidth or don't have access to a relay that has the bandwidth then you can't do what you want to do.
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Reply #9 on: October 06, 2007, 06:21:05 PM

Sorry - thought the title said, " Looking for affordable music streaming server"

But the info here has been educational.

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Reply #10 on: October 06, 2007, 08:22:58 PM

What you are really asking is where can you find afforable bandwidth. What's your budget?

Edti: or someplace that rents out streaming servers
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Reply #11 on: October 07, 2007, 10:49:45 AM

I'm thinking less then $20 a month would be ideal.

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Reply #12 on: October 07, 2007, 01:34:45 PM


di.fm is advertising this streaming server. They want £23 for 50 slots at 64kbps. Which is double what you want to pay and probably half the quality. Anyone else notice that the di.fm streams now come from an AOL hostname? Found this other one too which is $42 for the same slots/bandwidth.
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