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lets talk about online radio streaming
which software is best and how we can operate and do i can use phoenix hosting for radio purpose?
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Shoutcast is the only online radio streamer that I know of, but I'm sure a quick google search can reveal most of them.

Currently, we do not allow shoutcast daemons to be ran on our server.

Well, shoutcast is probably the best on line caster out there, there is also icecast, but I believe it takes up more bandwidth. It is good that phoenix-hosting doesn't allow such daemons on the server because they would take up a motherload of bandwidth. However, if you want to stream radio, I do run a station, and, depending on the music you play, maybe I can hook you up with a timeslot.

Shoutcast!

Not in direct relation with subject : I often use http://www.radioblogclub.com (there is a large choice of songs), you search a band or a song and you play it... And if you look at the website there is a failure which permit you to download all songs you want (mp3 format)...

bat wrote:Well, shoutcast is probably the best on line caster out there, there is also icecast, but I believe it takes up more bandwidth.

Actually, icecast takes up less bandwidth, since ogg files can be at a lower bitrate then MP3s and sound better than higher bitrate MP3s. Shoutcast/icecast servers take up more bandwidth as you set the bitrate higher.

However, the person who is broadcasting to the icecast server has a higher load on their CPU than a person who is broadcasting to a Shoutcase server, since ogg takes longer to compress than MP3s, so, thus, it would use up more CPU cycles when encoding while streaming.

And, yeah, Shoutcast/icecast servers wouldn't make sense on this hosting, since we only have 4 gigs of bandwidth. I like icecast, since it can offer better quality music at lower bitrates, but Shoutcast is just about universally supported, so it is more popular.

Shoutcast is the best streaming software.

I personally prefer icecast over shoutcast because it only needs one open port on the server end as opposed to the two needed with shoutcast, and yes ogg is better than mp3, but even with HE-AAC its better, i also enjoy being able to have different format streams on one port on the server, ie both an mp3 and ogg stream on port 6920.

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a cool site that might make your mp3 collection useless

http://www.pandora.com

for streaming online i only used shoutcast, and i must say it was good enough for my needs

slave wrote:lets talk about online radio streaming
which software is best and how we can operate and do i can use phoenix hosting for radio purpose?
let me inform
ok guyz start sharing

Software: i used Windows media Encoder

Shoutcast

i dont recommend you shoutcast its full of holes yes its easy to install, setup etc. but for security reasons dont use it first search google youll find a lot of streaming software so good luck

CerealK wrote:a cool site that might make your mp3 collection useless

http://www.pandora.com

for streaming online i only used shoutcast, and i must say it was good enough for my needs

Thx Cerealk, very good link. In addition all songs are downloadables freely (MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo).

slave wrote:lets talk about online radio streaming
which software is best and how we can operate and do i can use phoenix hosting for radio purpose?
let me inform
ok guyz start sharing

use winamp on your own machine with shoutcast or whatever it is ))) the easiest way it is