#shoutcast

[merindzousa]

Starting an Online Radio with Shoutcast/Icecast Hosting

Do you have a passion for music, a love of sharing, and a desire to connect with listeners worldwide? Then starting your own online radio station might be your perfect calling! With the right tools and guidance, you can create a platform to broadcast your voice, curate unique playlists, and build a vibrant community around your favourite sounds.

In this blog post, we'll explore the exciting world of starting an online radio with Shoutcast/Icecast hosting.

Step 1: Understanding Shoutcast/Icecast Hosting

Shoutcast and Icecast are popular for internet radio streaming, enabling broadcasts similar to traditional radio. There are hosting services that support these platforms, allowing your internet radio station to stream to a global audience reliably. These specialised services are tailored to meet the needs of internet radio broadcasters, ensuring high-quality streaming for listeners.

Step 2: Planning Your Radio Station

Before diving into the technical setup, plan your station. Decide on the genre of music or type of content you wish to broadcast. Also, consider the structure of your programming—will you have live shows, pre-recorded segments, or a mix of both?

Step 3: Choosing the best Hosting Plan

Select a hosting plan that aligns with the size of your audience and bandwidth needs. Look for options that accommodate various types of radio stations, ranging from smaller community stations to larger, established ones. Visit Ucartz.com and explore the variety of Shoutcast/Icecast hosting plans available. 

Step 4: Setting Up Your Broadcasting Software

After choosing your hosting plan, you'll need broadcasting software to manage and stream your audio content. Tools like SAM Broadcaster or Mixxx are popular choices for this purpose. These software applications can help you efficiently manage your playlists and broadcasts and connect to Shoutcast/Icecast servers for streaming.

Step 5: Designing Your Radio Station’s Website

For your radio station, a website is essential. It serves as the primary platform where listeners can learn about your station, check programming schedules, and stream your broadcasts live. Consider choosing a website hosting provider that offers integration with your radio hosting. This integration ensures a smooth and seamless experience for your listeners, both for browsing your site and enjoying your live audio content.

Step 6: Going Live and Promoting Your Station

With everything set up, it’s time to go live! Promote your station through social media, forums, and community groups. Engage with your audience and gather feedback to refine your station's content.

Conclusion:

Starting your online radio with Shoutcast/Icecast hosting can be a thrilling and rewarding experience. With Ucartz’s Shoutcast/Icecast hosting services, the technical side is taken care of, letting you focus on creating great content for your listeners.

Visit Ucartz.com today to embark on your journey to starting an online radio station!

[ucartz]

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[blazehedgehog]

This almost doesn't even have anything to do with the above posts because it's so far out of the scope of laughing at modern day Burning Man, but I'm pretty sure, at one point, Burning Man was a music festival. Or at least something akin to that Simpsons episode where they sail out to international waters and realize they can do anything they want.

This is going to take a minute to set up, but trust me, it goes somewhere.

I bring this up because very, very, very early in internet video, like right before the dawn of Youtube and personal video streaming services like Twitch (so figure 2004-2005), Winamp, at the time the undisputed kings of homegrown internet radio (Shoutcast's original purpose), expanded into Shoutcast Video. It was accessed via a menu called Winamp TV, which was a directory of currently-live channels.

As you might expect, it was only ever really used for piracy. Almost immediately, a bunch of streaming channels cropped up that were basically dedicated to one show 24/7. There was a Simpsons channel. There was a South Park channel. A Seinfeld channel. Even a porn channel. I look at the modern streaming landscape now, where a service like Pluto TV has 24/7 Mystery Science Theater or Baywatch or whatever, and I remember that Winamp TV started that trend nearly 20 years ago because some college kid pirated every episode of Futurama and decided to host a Shoutcast Video server just because he could.

Anyway, literally one of the only non-piracy channels was... I don't even remember what it was called. But it was some sort of counter-culture programming that I found fascinating and a little disturbing. Very much "what am I even WATCHING" kind of content.

It was this guy, maybe mid-20's, early 30's, and he was what he referred to as a "wog." And he used it in a way that seems to have no mainstream definition, because by his account, a "wog" was a modern day ronin of sorts. Or to cut to the heart of my interpretation, he was an anti-capitalist prepper of sorts. He only bought clothing and gear from the military supply store and made sure to strip all corporate logos and branding off of everything.

He always had a knife and possibly even a gun on him at all times, but he also maintained what could best be described as a utility belt full of all sorts of stuff, and to some degree, he lived his life sort of as a ghost. Deliberately out of public view, deliberately as far off the grid as he could get, but at the same time, he said he would go out of his way to help anyone that needed aid. That was his purpose in life.

He never mentioned any family. No kids, no wife, no girlfriend.

He was a very strange individual. A little unnerving to realize this type of person existed out there. But he did not seem to be hurting anyone.

And he shot a handful of videos on his lifestyle, his mantras, his every day carry gear list, so on and so forth. And he threw all of this up on to a Winamp TV streaming channel. But the bulk of what was on that channel was a multi-part video series where he documented visiting Burning Man. And, at least to me, this was before the modern glitz and glamour of current Burning Man. It's been running since 1986, so these videos were produced a good 18 years after its induction, but from my perspective it felt like the early days of the event before all the money took over and was just a bunch of burnt out hippies smoking salvia and listening to music or whatever.

Watching this strange tacticool hermit enter 2004 Burning Man and talk to dudes who smoked so much meth all their teeth fell out was kind of haunting, but like watching a car accident, I could not look away.

I only bring this up because I have no idea what happened to this guy. That Winamp TV station is the only record I've ever found of his existence, which, going by his intended life style, is honestly probably what he wanted. I keep wishing I could find it again, if only to gawk at how eerie it all felt.

burning man 2023 explained

burning man is a festival for rich white people who want to smoke weed and trip acid in the nevada desert and pretend they're one with the earth. it's not a music festival or anything that serves any purpose, it's just vibes

a hundred year flash flood just hit nevada, including where burning man is being held this very weekend

dry desert ground can't suddenly absorb water, let alone that much water all at once, so now burning man is a giant mud pit with THICK deep mud

nobody can get in or out, so they closed all the roads

FEMA just told the *73,000 PEOPLE* stranded at burning man to shelter in place, ration food and water, and essentially "you're on your own, good luck"

the port-o-potties are overflowing into the mud they're all walking around in

the official CDC twitter account tweeted (and then deleted) that there's a confirmed ebola outbreak at burning man, but people are pretty sure it's just trench illnesses. like actual WWI trench illnesses

earlier this week, climate activists protested against burning man, and all the attendees drove right past them (and yelled at them, and tried to get them arrested, etc)

there's a private jet at burning man where people can join the mile high club. it just takes off and lands all day and lets people fuck in it. no word yet on the fuck plane's current status/location

and lastly: when the ground here gets wet, the sea monkeys hatch

[mbishiri]

Radio Automation Software for Professionals and Amateurs

SAM Broadcaster provides you with everything you need to make your dreams of radio broadcasting a reality. Sporting advanced audio features, it includes a cross fader, gap killer, 5-band compressor, volume equalization, fade detection and a limiter.

[gcomstreaming]

SonicPanel es el panel de control de radio streaming más avanzado, permite transmitir tu señal con conexiones SHOUTcast SSL hasta 320 kbps, Protección DDos, AutoDj, Multi lenguaje.

[puppy-linux-official]

Did Winamp accidentally just provide proof that they were violating GPL for decades? Yes!

Have they potentially GPL poisoned their entire codebase as well as proprietary Dolby algorithms? Also yes!

Can you download this code today? You guessed it, yes!!!

Orphaned commits containing all of these issues after they tried to hide their crimes are waiting for you to download them!

[xomoosexo]

yeah most recent jojo thing was her being anti-sapnap during that whole 'how dare sapnap be loud and join contests for money!!!' bullshit safe to say she's an op for life even the other ops don't typically extend it to sapnap like that.

well I mean it's minecraft event drama which I truly value on the lowest tier

[karnalesbian]

reddit delenda est

[pulpfanfiction]

if you say "crouching medium kick" im stealing TWO things out of your house. im a numpad notation truther for life. nothing will ever top it.

[foone]

I've been using internet streaming audio since, like, winamp invented shoutcast. I've used pandora, spotify, youtube music, itunes...

the only one I've ever seen that randomly stops playing while you have a good connection, and doesn't automatically restart when that happens is podbean.

that's 26 years of streaming audio and only ONE of them fails at their primary job of "playing audio off the internet"

[niconiconwo]

It's pretty wild to think about how much cool stuff we had for internet culture before Social Media and Web 2.0. I mean it's still out there, plenty of niche PHP-driven boards, simple websites, and even a Geocities clone (though it really is just nostalgia-as-art and not really the same thing at all, don't kid yourself). The issue is most of it is very unused.

RSS was awesome, but now everything wants you to go to Twitter for content updates. Most web boards were community funded, and all but a handful didn't survive; they migrated to Facebook instead and became subsumed entirely. There were all kinds of shoutcasts and other small time broadcasts via the internet; most internet radio channels see far far less listeners and has generally been replaced by Spotify. Big Tech messengers have virtually replaced email and neutral applications both standalone and web-based; only sweaty nerds even know what a mailing list is anymore let alone actually correspond via emails in long form.

All the cool stuff from the old web was replaced or smothered specifically to wall the garden and make you more profitable to tech corpos. Beyond that, the social ramifications of Web 2.0 and the appification that followed are astounding.

[ucartz]

Ucartz Shoutcast/Icecast hosting makes it easy to stream audio to the world. With unlimited listeners and storage, you'll have all the resources you need to grow your audience. Plus, with 24/7 customer support and an easy-to-use control panel, you can easily manage your audio stream.

[razberrypuck]

"/spectator. just turn me into a code. I'll do it. just let me shoutcast" JSHFJWJDHJQHDHDDH

[vintage-vermin]

working on a little side site where I talk about the shows I used to watch as a stream via Winamp shoutcast, Kazaa funsies, games I used to waste my youth on, old profile sites and chats I used and more!

[ikleyvey]

DJ Valtur, one of the strongest dudes in Twin Theorems!

He considers himself the voice of the people and he's always live at least one radio station in the city. He does live commentary on events that transpire, including combat so he'll be your personal shoutcaster if you end up in a brawl in TT! He's able to control his devices and work station using the Highway cables AND snap high voltage at enemies.

[sunnysmiles]

Nextdoor neighbors were shoutcasting thier play fighting last night and at one point he gave her a wet willy and i had to leave my room for a bit. Wet willy foreplay