Looking at the set up for other Icecast Servers run by people who know more about how to do it is a good way to learn how to congigure the server.
After scouting around I landed on the server for wmuk.org.... U. of Michigan in Kalamazoo.
The way they handled the "host" setting is to utilize a sub-domain.
How does one establish a sub-domain?
That's our clue for today.
Marvelous Carl said: "After scouting around I landed on the server for wmuk.org.... U. of Michigan in Kalamazoo."
Resident Hobby Agent Wanna Bee said: "U of Michigan is in Ann Arbor. Western Michigan University is in Kalamazoo."
Mr. Wanna Bee spoke: "I hate being right all the time."
Mr. Blare glibbed: If Wanna Bee wasn't right we wouldn't know we were wrong.
WMUK is still in Kalamazoo, only the universities have been changed to protect my innocence.
I just got added to this site station was added instantlly
http://www.broadcastingworld.com/stations/Phat-Beats-Radio/
Reply to Carl. The hostname is your static IP (if you have one) or the name your DNS service uses (such as artisanradio.com) to resolve to your IP.
Here is another site I found it takes 3 days to get added to the site
http://www.internetradiotopsites.com/index.php?page=index
DJbout it I think you should join the ALPB and come to our meetings two times a month on TeamSpeak.
Right now one of the things we are talking about is planning a mini-seminar (a tutorial done by ourselves) on how to stream a radio station.
Sounds like you could contribute a lot of experience to the project.
Right now we have Bob (MRAM), Johny (Rag FM), Troy (TheLegacy) and me (Carl), planning to give our own spin on streaming.
For the past 2 days I have been testing a lot of free streaming software.
The thing is, they ARE two stations. Each reaching a different audience. In simply numbers, lets you say you have 50 listeners on one, and 50 on the other. You have to pay for all 100 listeners. It's more a matter of audience that number of streams. Each stream will have it's own listeners creating a larger total than either one alone. When you get right down to it they're counting listeners, not streams. If you weren't getting listeners on each stream, why would you run two? If it's for quality differentce or stream speeds, for example, it's for two specifically different groups of people, and your license has to cover them all, not just one.
TIB
If you set up your own server and stream by yourself, how do you handle the music licensing?
To be legal, near as I can tell, it's cheaper and easier to pay a streaming service that also includes the music licensing. Remember, streaming you have to pay ALL the groups -- ASCAP, BMI, ASCAP, SoundExchange, AND the new groups that have sprung up over the last year or so. If you don't use a streaming provider it's up to you to provide all the song and artist data, listener counts, and send checks to all the groups.
It's pretty easy to set up a way to stream audio at basically no cost. But to be legal for music is a whole 'nuther thing.
TIB
On Tim's first point - "If (one program is run on several streams) and it's for quality differentce or stream speeds, for example, it's for two specifically different groups of people, and your license has to cover them all, not just one."
That is understood, but it seems to me that if listeners of one program on three different kinds of streams were all totaled up you'd end up with the same number of listeners. But I suspect that the industry views multiple streams as different stations so they come out ahead dollar wise. It is just another way of gouging small stations.
On the other matter, running one's own streams, two of us intentionally use only license free material. The other stream seminar participants have arrangements with streaming services that collect royalties, and we'll have a chance to learn how each one works.
So there is only one stream which is subject to royalties, but it is listed on 10 different directories.
How many streams are there in the eyes of the money collectors?
As far as having two streams say one in Mp3 and one in AAC+ you must report BOTH streams to the pro’s. If your going through a licensing service like StreamLicensing there is no issue with this besides setting up their reports monitoring for both streams.
You will need to give them your server password to monitor your station. So say I have 12 Mp3 listeners and 2 AAC+ listeners it counts on my ATH as 14 listeners.
On radio directories you simply post your playlist (.pls or .m3u link) to the directory and this counts as one stream. You simply pay a monthly rate based on your TLH (Total Listening Hours). It does get tricky this is why its best to pay for a licensing reporting company like StreamLicensing.
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