Before I get into this stuff...

[MrToxin]

I'm figuring out SHOUTcast piece by piece, but I'm curious about a few things.

First off, one reason I want to get a radio station going on the interweb is to get promote my own work. Plus, I'm wondering what constitutes commerical use and what I have to do to get that sort of thing rolling.

I've read up on licensing of the actual music and think I understand that now, but what about profiting off the use of SHOUTcast? I certainly wouldn't mind sharing any money with the people that made the software, I'm just wondering how much it costs to get started.

[sputnik radio]

depends on what video encoding and what audio encoding you use.

example if you are getting paid to air audio ads you would have to have the commericial license for whatever audio encoder you are using.

If you were getting paid to put up ads in video you would have to have your video encoder licesened commerically.


I think

[hackerdork]

You should review the licensing of shoutcast http://www.shoutcast.com/disclaimer.phtml

~ HD