How to Stream your music in Second Life – You're Source client software than
Did you know that your music, your life goes second with the same technology as internet radio, please bring your music to this new target client requires a source shoutcast, music is sent to a streaming server, which then box advertising your music to all listeners in Second Life.
This article lists the main decisions Shoutcast / Icecast source client. This source is the client softwarerunning on the computer and connects to the music he plays with the streaming server.
What does
The Shoutcast / Icecast streaming source client accepts audio input from a hardware device or program that encodes it into a stream of media and send streaming media in a streaming server. Every step of this process requires configuration, and each program is different in the specifics of the place where you can find these settings. However, the settings are pretty selfuniversal.
Music Source
The entrance to the source client can choose from a media player such as iTunes, Winamp or Windows Media Player, or can be connected by a hardware device to the computer – like a mixer connected to a sound card or a handheld microphone. Your source client has chosen a list of items you can choose to broadcast.
Coding
Some customers may sourceable to encode in multiple media formats. But for compatibility with Second Life, you must use mp3. The Second Life Viewer on the laptop does not support end-WMA, AAC, Ogg, or other formats. You will notice that when you try to use the most pristine settings of MP3 encoding with the audience jumps in the flow of experience. The best thing is not greater than 44.1, use 64 kbps, stereo. You should be able to find these settings groupedtogether.
Specifies the streaming server
Finally, you need the Shoutcast / Icecast streaming server that will connect the source client. This will be in the form of a URL or an IP address, port number and password. Some customers streaming, you can create a "library" of servers, each with its own URL, the port and password. This is useful if you regularly in a number of places. Each seat has its own server. So you can as soon as possibleconfigured, it's just a certain position to select the server from a list, and have all of the settings at once. If your source client does not have this feature, you must manually enter this data at any time and any place.
Criteria
For each of the streaming client software listed in the price list I have, where you get it, what platform is running, and other attributes. After reading this article, you should be ready for streaming to a client, the source makes you choose yourNeeds.
Before the electoral list, I first define what the various attributes.
Operating System (OS) – Find out which operating system of the Streaming Client is compatible with the source. There are options for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
Plugin vs standalone – Some Shoutcast Icecast source client "plugin" programs that work in others. One example is the Shoutcast DSP plugin that you install 'to' Winamp as a guest.Another source of customers in a separate window to run and offers all the features needed to.
Record function – Some customers will also record the source (or 'archive'), your power. The stream is sent not only to the streaming server, but also written to the computer's hard drive as MP3 files. This allows you to play your stream later.
Presentation of candidates
Butt (broadcast using this tool)
Free
Linux, MacOS andWindows.
open source project hosted on Source Forge
Stand Alone
Video streaming and recording at the same time with different bit rates this relatively new offers all the features you would need or want. The fact that it is free and works on almost any computer, making it a good choice.
Winamp with Shoutcast DSP plugin
Free
Windows, Mac OS, Linux, UNIX, others
Winamp Winamp makes standard
Shoutcast Shoutcast DSP plugin makes
Host Media Player plug-
Nobuilt in recording solution functionalityThis the pillar within Windows, especially since its price was.
Nice Cast
$ 40 (demo)
Mac OS
Rogueamoeba is the company behind Nicecast
Stand Alone
Stock functionFor years has been standard in this area Fully equipped Mac.
SimpleCast
$ 139
Windows
SpacialAudio product SimpleCast
Stand Alone
No registration functionalityThis selection is made by a company with a complete line ofInternet radio professional tools.
Reaper with Shoutcast plugin
$ 60 (demo)
Windows
Cockos Reaper ago
Landoleet is where you can connect reaper_shoutcast.dll (this is NOT the same as the Shoutcast DSP plugin for Winamp)
DAW and plug-ins
Full multi-track recording capabilityReaper a complete DAW is worked by a company from the man who established the first technology invented Shoutcast. Extremely powerful, with the complexitygame.
EdCast
Free
Windows
Oddsock makes edcast
Both stand-alone or as a plug-in for Winamp or Foobar2000.
Not built-in recorder in.Both EdCast Oddcast and its predecessors from the developer himself, with a number of other useful tools, music (including a Stream recorder).
The envelope, please
If you start in just a second life in music streaming, I recommend you start down.Silly name, I know. Yet it is free do whatever you want to do it, and runs the same way on each computer that you probably have. In addition, an open source program, which means that its future is more or less secure.
Each of the other options would be the same. They all work pretty hiccup-free. If your needs are unique, may be preferable for any other reason to go head to head.
I myself am using Reaper with the Shoutcast plug-in. Reaper is a fully featured music productionDAW like Pro Tools, Logic, Sonar, etc., in fact, was my first DAW to start streaming in Second Life. The fact that Reaper guy from the boy I invented the Internet radio (such as Winamp, Gnutella and other needs modern) must change radically.
Go ahead!
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