radio station live streaming: tech help plz!

[hatembr]

hi everyone,

i didn't really know where to ask this question, here is the situation:

going to make a website for a radio station that needs to establish a live streaming of its programs but i have no idea about how live streaming is done. I'd like to know if there is any other piece of hardware to buy and setup at the radion station locals, may be something that links an output of their main mixer to a computer's input that is going to be online or something.... can someone please help me with this ?
what do i and they need exactly ?

[Juho L]

I'm the pioneer of internet radios kept by drunkards. (Naturally drunk at the moment)

www.shoutcast.com

From there get a server and broadcasting plugins. You need Winamp 2 or 5. Start the server and then start the plugin. In the plugin window select source (sound card input preferred) and start the broadcast. Now the Winamp broadcasts the input from your soundcard (the input which is set in the control panel -> audio).

I run my radio via NI Traktor. I have a speech background music on the deck A and the songs are on the other deck. I run the Traktor output to mixer where I mix the music with speech and then I rout the mixer signal to sound card input. Traktor is really nice program for internet radios. Easy crossfades and other stuff.

[hatembr]

thx a lot juho that helps a lot (sure u were drunk ?? )
apart from winamp, aren't there any other soft that can do the same thing? i mean pro soft, winamp looks like a toy to me...
and what it the radio people there want to have their own server and going thru shoutcast ? what soft are there ? i read about Helix, do u know if it is good ?

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by hatembr

thx a lot juho that helps a lot (sure u were drunk ?? :))

It was slight toxication. I still could talk.

apart from winamp, aren't there any other soft that can do the same thing? i mean pro soft, winamp looks like a toy to me...

With SHOUTcast Winamp only transmits. It just transmits the input of the soundcard. If you want you can setup a mixer and other stuff for the radio and then just rout the output to soundcard input.

and what it the radio people there want to have their own server and going thru shoutcast ? what soft are there ? i read about Helix, do u know if it is good ?

What do you mean? Own server? You just start the server program and there we have a server. Just connect to your own ip and port 8000 with the SHOUTcast plugin and there you have a radio.

I have no idea what Helix is. I see no reason why not to use SHOUTcast.