how can I use my domain name to direct people to my shoutcast

[danobegood]

I want to set up a host name on my domain name like winamp.mydomainname.com so it can be entered into the location rather than my ip address and :8000. I tried setting up my dns with :8000 as the ip address but i guess winamp doesn't use dns to find a location. any help?

[DeSano]

I believe if you add a file like "playlist.m3u" to you're web page folder. People could put "yourdomain.com/playlist.m3u" and it would open up the stream. I don't have a domain, so I'm not sure if it can be done, or if it's that easy, but hopefully this will get you on the right path.

[RuphBear]

You should not put port numbers into your DNS entries.

You should already have a hostname set up from when you install your TCP/IP networking. Whatever machine name you put in at installation time should work in the WinAmp open location.

You didn't mention whether this was an Intra or Internet setup, or what OS you were running, so I can't really be much more specific than that.

Ruph

[raingod42]

if you have a server running on your machine (www.mydoamin.com points to a machine you administer), you can set up the winamp.mydomain.com. while you're doing that you set the ip - so no need to point them to an IP. you also need a a playlist file - so the address would be winamp.mydomain.com/playlist.pls
good luck!

[djderricke]

Actually it might be easier to run a small webserver on the same machine that your shoutcast stream runs on. There are plenty of those around. Try http://www.winfiles.com I know there are plenty of small webservers there. Now 9 times out of 10 the default web page is index.html or index.htm. Within the index.html set a META REFRESH tag to point to a .PLS file which then points to your Shoutcast server. The META REFRESH tag should look like this:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="X;URL=http://www.website.com/index.html">

The 'Refresh' would be the number of seconds until the browser loaded the next page, and 'URL=' would obviously point to your .pls file which should look like this:

[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=http://*host*:*port*

Replace host and port with your actual Shoutcast host and port numbers. Let me know if this helps.