Setup for our radio station

[velanche]

Hello:

I work at a college radio station. We are trying to stream our station through a Shoutcast server. I'm unsure that I'm doing things right, and could use some clear and explicit instructions. I'm not computer illiterate by any means, but in this case I need to know what to get, how to do it, how to make things work, and how to keep things from croaking.

We have a Pentium system with Windows 98 on the machine. I have Shoutcast server and Winamp on the machine. I installed the software, and then started running the server. I'm not sure what the heck I'm looking for to tell me that a stream is being served. Is this what this DSP plug-in is supposed to be?

In any event, anyone who has actually worked at a station with such knowledge (or hasn't worked there, but knows) would surely help us out rather nicely. Thanks, and I hope to hear from you soon.

Regards,
Velanche

[DuaneJeffers]

1st, you need to know what the server does. What the server does is send out the Data from the DSP plug-in that Winamp uses. An an certain number of people can tune in and listen to a SHOUTcast, that all requires bandwidth. What you need to find out is how much bandwidth you have at your disposal. Since a college (like an university) would have massive bandwidth, this is no problem. But if you don't have much bandwidth, then you would be screwed, but I will come back to this later. 2nd, When people login to the server, they use a protocal called IP, this is the server's "Phone Number". I'm working on a way to figure this out. If you know this, then forget it. 3rd, Configuring for users. Use the On-Demand Audio Mp3 Conversion Guide (http://on-demandaudio.*************/developers/mp3.shtml). The lower the conversion the more users you have. (Note: Voice Only Data only needs to be at 16Kbps nothing more, nothing less). Now back to the bandwidth problem. If you were to broadcast in voice-only data, and the max bandwidth you had was 256Kbps (you may have more, but this is just more realistic), the you divide the Kbps you want to broadcast by how much bandwidth, and that would give you the total people you can broadcast. With our problem that I first gave you (16Kbps/256Kbps) that gives you 16 users. So after you have found out the Bandwidth you have and your IP, I'll come back with starting broadcasting.

DJ