(Portuguese) Fazer stream rádio online para amigos

Para fazer isto basta ter o VLC Player instalado.

Vai-se fazer:

File-> Stream

Escolhe-se os ficheiros (não se pode adicionar outros ficheiros mais tarde sem reiniciar a rádio)

Clicar em stream

Nas opções selecionar http e editar. Meter uma porta diferente, por exemplo 7777.  Meter também um ficheiro, por exemplo /radio.ogg

Meter um ficheiro audio permite abrir a rádio com apenas um browser. Se bem que é preferível abri-la com um media player.

Activar o transcoding para diminuir a qualidade se necessário. Escolher um formato adequado e diminuir a qualidade do codec de audio. Baixar para 128 kbps por exemplo.

Experimentar abrir a rádio no browser ou num player com:

http://localhost:7777/radio.ogg

Para abrir externamente usar o ip externo em vez de localhost (fazer google: "what's my ip").

Nota: Se a rádio não funcionar é provavelmente porque a porta 7777 do router não está mapeada para a da máquina que está a fazer stream. Procurar como fazer port forwarding da porta 7777 para a porta 7777 da máquina local.

Tutorial: Setting up a quick online radio for your friends.

If you are a gamer or something of the like and you would like to setup a quick online radio, for you and your friends to enjoy the same music while playing, this is the tutorial for you.

If you want to play music for people on Teamspeak or something, just keep reading.

 After trying several tools, I came to the conclusion that presently, the easiest way to setup an online radio is by using the Shoutcast + Winamp combo. 

Install Winamp

First, get and install the latest Winamp .

Install Shoutcast

 Now here comes the catch: the latest Shoucast does not bring a graphic interface. If you want to do this easily, and not have to mess around in files, get an older version. You can get it around the web. Search for Shoutcast 1 9 8 . Try this download link first, it's where I got it.

Install it. Shoutcast is ready to broadcast to port 8000. No configuration required. Easy so far.

Install Shoutcast DSP

Finally, you will need to install the Shoucast DSP for Winamp, for the two, Winamp and Shoutcast, to communicate. Again, an older version is better here, for compatibility purposes and for better integrated mp3 support.

I used version 1.90, so search the internet for Shoutcast DSP 1 9 0. Try this download link first.

Install the DSP. Open winamp and the DSP menu should appear. If not, find it inside Winamp options.

Using it

All you have to do is to put files playing on winamp, and tell your friends to open the address on their media player. Most players will be able to do this easily.

 

For example, put a playlist playing, tell them to open http://yourIP:8000 .

In some cases the default 8000 port will not work, so change that in the Shoutcast settings.

Online Radio - usage and alternatives to last.fm - A guide for Europe

last.fm was a very cool website. It was free, it was hip, it kept getting better.

Add a few years and the free part is dropped out, as it often happens.

What does this wonderful site have that makes it so wonderful and worth me writing about it?

All it did, or its core fuction is to gather information about its users listening habits.  What do you listen to and when do you listen to it. From that it does the following:

• Customized radios: you can pick a genre, friend, yourself or an artist, and it will play either songs that are related to what you picked or simply popular concerning what you picked. This means that with the click of a button you can listen to your friends music collection. Or even, you could listen to a radio composed of your favorites songs. Or even just listen to radio that plays music you don't know,  based on your tastes in regard to other similar users.

• Recommendations: As  mentioned before, last.fm can pickup what you like. It then finds similar users and recommends to you the stuff that they like, and that you don't know about. It's likely that this way you will find new music that you enjoy. Also, it will recommend concerts of band, based on your taste.

And it's basically this that makes last.fm so cool: costumized radios and recommendations.