64k 100 Listener Free (.01 cents) Streaming

Sounds good.

Stereo separation is very good, and freq response is solid out to about 11.5 khz; just a hair under FM quality.

Overall audio is affected by considerable graininess and gargle -- typical of heavily compressed streams. But not bad for a free service.

Listening in Washington DC

At work I setup a test stream for the LPFM I'll be putting up this year using a free service called Listen2MyRadio.com .  The link for that stream is http://wcfi.listen2myradio.com which is the Listen2MyRadio player page.  A direct link to the stream is at  http://78.129.187.73:9007/listen.pls for the Winamp player.

I used that service for my other streams but recently dropped them in favor of hosting from my home PC.  Granted I can't serve more than a handfull of listeners due to bandwidth limitations but so far so good.

Those links are:

http://mram.gotdns.com:8000/listen.pls

http://mram.gotdns.com:8090/listen.pls

The first is a 32 kbps stream playing NOAA WX for Akron, Ohio.

The second is a 56 kpbs stream playing my Part 15 station program.

The links are for the Winamp player but can be played with other players also.

I've been looking at http://myradiostream.com/ It's also free... Have anyone ever tried them?

They provide you a radio stream webpage, which will be in the format myradiostream.com/yourname that has an embedded Flash player which will start playing your stream within a few seconds of going on to the page. There will also be some links for those that prefer to listen using Winamp or Windows Media Player.

I don't see any specifics on how many listeners you can have, only the statement "With our fast, reliable servers, you don't need to worry about your stream buffering when you get too many listeners for your connection to handle - we take care of the bandwidth requirements for you."

You will never have to pay for streaming from MyRadioStream, however we do offer an upgrade option that has additional benefits to a free account.

How is it possible to give free Shoutcast servers away?

We can provide free Shoutcast servers because we serve ads on the webpage for your station. It costs many £100s every month to run high bandwidth streaming servers. This is why we ask you to link your listeners to your stream webpage rather than offering a direct tune in link to the Shoutcast server (which is disabled).

Once your listeners have visited your station page, the stream will start through our flash player, however they do then have the option to use their preferred player (such as Winamp, Windows Media or Real).

Once your listener is tuned in using an external player, they can navigate away from your stream webpage and continue listening.

Which would you say is the better choice Listen2MyRadio.com or myradiostream.com? 

And why did you decide to drop Listentomyradio and host from your home computer instead?

So - I now have the airtime box serving 320k streams to the systems in the house, and to the rPi STL; so its not downloading a stream from the dirty internet anymore 😀

I am now building my "Desk" computer - I got mix-minus stuff going on my baby console ( a little 8 channel yamaha ), and 3 sound cards in the "Desk" machine - it has Ubuntu, IDJC, JACKd, small RAM - 4GB, a 120gb SSD for the OS and caching, and a 500gb disk for storing music and stuff.  

This whole setup is intended to hold me over until we find a house and get moved.. likely in Dec..

😀

MLR Worldwide Radio is coming together. .. like the A-Team.

The streaming may be free but you're still going to need to pay for music licensing from BMI, ASCAP, SESAC as well as streaming rights from SoundExchange.  methinks you may be better off with a company that charges you but includes the necessary licensing. Doing it yourself with your own server or with a free service does not cover this. 

Tim  in Bovey

Ok - before this becomes a thing to discuss: Yes I am aware of licensing.  StreamLicensing.com handles this - so running your own, and using a free or cheap service that provides the proper ID3 tag info will do just fine.

"Doing it yourself with your own server or with a free service does not cover this." - this does not matter if you are using a proper licensing service. 

The ALPB prints licenses.

Presciesley, mlr, but there may be those who assume they can set up a stream and let 'er rip. 

Also streamlicensing.com runs a wonderful service for those who run a completely automated operation with id tags, etc. Go live playing some vintage records and you're lost!

I am not presently streaming as I'm doing just fine serving my small town over the air and over the local cable TV. (The cable company actually has a blanket license that covers any music they broadcast in such a manner -- oddly, I'm their only legal choice among radio stations in the area -- even though they are cleared for music very few commercial stations carry only music and locally produced programs -- e.g. one station has a dozen syndicated shows, ABC and Minnesota News network news, and Minnesota Twins baseball, Gopher college sports, Minnesota Wild Hockey, Minnesota Timberwolves NBA and bunch of other stuff that you would need separate clearance from.  I know, because we had to go through that to get my "work" station on a legal stream, and we have to black out all pro and college sports from our stream. Sports is VERY protective of their broadcasts.  As I'm already paying BMI for broadcast, have a letter from ASCAP that they don't bother with Part 15, and have a waiver from SEASAC, and I see soundscan has a "microcaster" category that near as I can recall $600 bucks a year covers you with NO need to log or have id tags, etc.  $500 if you have them.  Clearly there are a lot of details here.

I just didn't want anyone to think they could start streaming at no expense. EVen with streamlicensing there is a cost, some limitations, and rules to follow.

Tim in Bovey

BTW, listening to your stream right now on my iMac via iTunes.  Sounds wonderful.

Tim in Bovey