ok, I need a little help...or alot, but I want to broadcast some live sets, I got Winamp 5 and the latest shoutcast, but dunno exactly how to set it up, I tried reading the readme, but can't seem to find what I'm looking for, I don't wanna connect to any server, I just wanna broadcast over my pc, I dunno if I still need to connect to something or not, but I've tried entering my ip address into it and that doesn't seem to do anything, I dunno what I'm doing, can anybody help?

oh yea I'm behind a router, but there is no firewall or anything.

I don't remember if it comes with winamp, or whether you have to go download it, but you start and run shoutcast, open winamp, go to winamp's preferences, plug-ins, DSP-Effect, and pick the Shoutcast Source DSP. That's the part that I don't know whether it comes with or not. Anyway,it'll open a box, you just put in some info, and hit connect, then start playing whatever from winamp, with people connecting to your IP.

Hope that helps.

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Originally posted by TwoPlow I don't remember if it comes with winamp, or whether you have to go download it, but you start and run shoutcast, open winamp, go to winamp's preferences, plug-ins, DSP-Effect, and pick the Shoutcast Source DSP. That's the part that I don't know whether it comes with or not. Anyway,it'll open a box, you just put in some info, and hit connect, then start playing whatever from winamp, with people connecting to your IP. Hope that helps.

yea it helps some, cheers.

Well I got the server program installed, and I got what I think I need setup, and it is showing the signal is being sent, but he can't connect, I dunno why, I am behind a router, but the firewall IS disabled, I found my IP from the router, no not the 192.168.2.1 number, but my real IP number, and gave him that, and it isn't working, have I done this right?, am I giving the right IP?

PS. Could it be my port number?, I left it on 8000.

check out their help forum Here


ive been trying to get mine to work for a while but it still doesn't work. I think you do have to set something on your router, something like port forwarding...i dunno though.

but yeah, run the server program after setting up the username pass and port in the ini file. After it is running go to that plugin in winamp, then under connect er something enter your ip and port along with username and pass.


thats all I got.

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Originally posted by Boomer187 check out their help forum Here ive been trying to get mine to work for a while but it still doesn't work. I think you do have to set something on your router, something like port forwarding...i dunno though. but yeah, run the server program after setting up the username pass and port in the ini file. After it is running go to that plugin in winamp, then under connect er something enter your ip and port along with username and pass. thats all I got.

Cheers for the info, so far I'm upto trying to config port forwarding, I thought I got it right, but my mate keeps getting a Timed Out. I think Shoutcast is setup now, I just think I need to do my router, its a SMC Barricade SMC7004VBR and I think I set it up in the Virtual Servers section, I just wanna open port 8000, so I put that in as my private and public port, and thats as far as I got so far, any more help about any of this would be great.

I tried looking around the Winamp help, but can't find what I need now, oh well, gotta keep looking.

You need to make sure you have the shoutcast *server* as well as the winamp plugin... This is available here http://www.shoutcast.com/download/serve.phtml. This must be running on your PC before you start winamp. You can then enter your own ip address in the shoutcast config box from winamp, and it should connect.

Hope this helps.

Change the port to 8001 and see if that works.

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Originally posted by TwoPlow Change the port to 8001 and see if that works.

If you have downloaded the shoutcast server and the shoutcast DSP plugin from shoutcast.com, the default ports will work ok, you shouldn't need to change them...

I got it working, it was my dam router, when forwarding the ports, I had it down as 192.168.2.1, it wanted 192.168.2.100 instead, anyway, it works now, and runs great, got 4 128K connections and 3 24K connections with 0 problems.

Nice. I can only support about 4 64k streams before my internet dies.

I had my own small internet radio but it was more a joke actually I streamed for friends ,nothing serious.There are two problems in streaming your tracks : 1.it costs a lot of bandwidth ,streaming at a decent 128kb will cost you ,unless your ISP has given you unlimited bandwidth.Be honest: do you like to listen to webradio's who stream at 50 or 60 kb (no because quality is total crap)??Why would people choose you're webradio if they can listen to thousands of other radio's streaming at 128kb????
2.It's very hard to get listeners you will have 1 to 5 listeners - top.

It's better to contact an existing internetradio and apply there or upload you're sets for download.

Last edited by JM007 on Apr-06-2004 at 16:15

I know what your talking about JM007, but I'm just using it to broadcast to about 6 people or so, I got about 550K upload so I'm doing ok with 4 128k and 3 24k connections, the 24k connections are for some people I know on dialup, otherwise I wouldn't broadcast at that, maybe in the future I'll buy some more bandwidth or pay another company to help stream to more people, but for now I'm doing ok.

I've heard www.live365.com has a service that you can broadcast to and its free, anybody know anything about this?, I'll have to check this later.