streaming MY mp3 collection
 

was curious if there was a way to stream my collection of metallica bootlegs on shoutcast. i've got 9.5gigs of music i've collected over the years (many of it high quaility soundboard recordings) and think it would be cool if i could somehow stream it from my computer through shoutcast. is this possible?

yeah, download and set up a shoutcast sever.

It's not hard.

Any questions go to the shoutcast forum.

you can't do shoutcast with winamp3...yet

you still have to use winamp2 untill the new shoutcast client is finished

yeah i found that out. was up and streamin with v.2 but is it true that if i stream at 128kbps, everyone getting that stream will suck a separate 128kbps of bandwidth from me? if thats so, i could only have 2 people connected, is that really how it works? shit man, i have an assload of this shit i'd like to stream, bigger collection then anyone im aware of. :( just wanted others to expeirience it. well, fuck it

That's basically how it works, however a lower bitrate broadcast or a fatter pipe would be advisable. Also, I don't appreciate your language, and I doubt many others around here do either. Curb it please, there's youngsters on the boards.

shit, I'm sorry about the language man, guess i wasn't thinkin clearly. also, thanx for the info. and youngsters, be cool, stay in school! :p

nothing wrong with language.... as long as your not abusing someone

please feel free to abuse 'microsoft, nVidia and creative labs' with new and creative swearwords:p

its probably best to do this in the bitchlist forum:)

Really? i thought that was like the whole point of shoutcast? so someone without a stupidly large amount of bandwidth can still stream music. kinda like this:

1. on the streamer's pc, load shoutcast plugin, play music.
2. music gets streamed to central shoutcast server.
3. listener browses shoutcast website, finds stream, clicks listen
4. central shoutcast server sends listeners the music through its megafat pipe, with the streamer only streaming one copy of the music to save bandwidth

correct me if i'm wrong, but then what is the whole point of shoutcast?

Your wrong. That was what live365 did/does (although they now charge for it). Shoutcast.com keeps a directory listing of publicly available servers, but it has no control over the content, and definitely doesn't host the streams themselves. That's why you can find such a great diversity of quality in the streams shoutcast offers, sound quality, that is. If everyone could use shoutcast.com to host the streams, I'm sure that everyone would opt to pump out as high a quality stream as possible (all 128k or above). Shoutcast is great not because it hosts the streams for you, but because they give the transcoding and server software away for free, and they provide a centralized list of publicly available streams.

-=Gonzotek=-

sorry

Shoutcast can work in either way, alien2k. The broadcaster can either choose to host the server themselves, in which case they will use x amount of bandwidth, depending on users listening, or, as you say, you can stream to a central server first, so the broadcaster's bandwidth usages stay's constant.

I know a lot of people here in the UK who set up shoutcast servers on computers with extremely large pipes (like Universities) and then broadcast from home.

Remember - Broadcaster -> Server -> Listener

It's the server -> listener part that determines the overall amount of bandwidth used.

so i was half right then. thats good
thanks garry

ok, so r u guys saying it would be possible to maybe hide a server on one of my school's computers then broadcast a stream of my music to that server? then just check back on that computer every once in ahwile to keep things connected? they don't shut down these computers at my university (WMU) because it's a 24hour lab. if this is gonna be possible please someone walk me through gettin this to work. I know it's not really ethical, stealing WMU's bandwidth, but i pay them soooo much in parking fines and other misclaneous bullshit (sorry kids) that i firgure they owe me. also i should not have to use them long cuz im kinda confident that my collection or killer live rare metallica will attain a strong following. then possibly i could find someone legal to host my shit and maybe throw some commersials or something in. anyhow, if someone could help me set my school connection up as a central server, (temporaraly), i'd be greatful. I realize i'm prob. discussing this in the wrong forum but this is where i started the thread so..... anywho, thanx for any help. i'd really like to get up and runnin soon. also if anyone is interested in seeing a list of my bootlegs, and possibl;y download a concert or 2 at a patheticaly slow speed, visit www.metpage.com and log on to the PhantomLord FTP server. Later.

Hmm, read the shoutcast FAQ/instructions or something. It's dead simple, assuming your school hasn't blocked the ports required for you to send your stream, and for listeners to receive it.