Music Servers

Jan 19, 2011 22 Replies

Did you not see the other two similar 'PC' solutions?

Microsoft Expressions 4 encoder (XP, Vista, Seven) is probably the 'easiest' for popping a tuner on the sound card and broadcasting it out as you simply select 'live input', pick the sound card source, "cue," tick streaming-broadcast, and hit 'start'.

Winamp is a bit more complex (separate server, manually editing a config file, etc) but if you also want to stream local files I think it's media browser makes that simpler than Expressions because you can select directories and playlists vs 'files'. (Expressions seems more geared to broadcasting a 'prepared presentation'.)

One of the things I like about both of those, though, is neither requires 'signing in' to anything (although Winamp allows you to sign up to their shoutcast radio list if you'd like to be a public 'Internet radio station').

Btw, I notice the same 'delay' before sound issueth forth on the receiving end with Expressions as I did with Winamp.

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I should mention that Expressions encoder is, well, the encoder (as opposed to Expressions Studio). The encoder is a free MS download.

I'm pretty sure Winamp 'free' will do broadcast streaming (via a free DSP plugin to the free Shoutcast DNAS server) but can't verify that as I have the 'pro' version.

The Shoutcast DNAS server has a cute feature that it can broadcast a select file on user connect, before going to the live stream, like a station ID or welcome. It can also play a file if the source is down, like you could record "I screwed up and it's currently broke." LOL

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