SHOUTcast

SHOUTcast Overview
SHOUTcast is a free-of-charge audio homesteading solution. It permits anyone on the internet to broadcast audio from their PC to listeners across the Internet or any other IP-based network (Office LANs, college campuses, etc.).

SHOUTcast DSP Plugin for Winamp
Installing the SHOUTcast DSP plug-in

Installing the Microsoft NetShow Services
If you have successfully installed SHOUTcast, and attempt to load the SHOUTcast plugin via making it highlighted in the DPS/Effects located in the Preferences window and receive an error stating that there is no CODEC installed, you should go verify this.

Configuring the SHOUTcast DSP Plug-in
You have completed your installation; you are certain there is a CODEC installed; now its time for you to get SHOUT'in.

SHOUTcast Server
Nullsoft SHOUTcast Server is an application that runs as an application on supported operating system such as Windows 95, 98, NT, FreeBSD, etc.

Installing the SHOUTcast Server on Windows 95, 98, NT
Installing SHOUTcast Server on Windows 9x/NT is actually quite an easy task, you just have to be familiar with ZIP compression a bit to get around.

Installing SHOUTcast Server on Unix Varients
Installing SHOUTcast Server on Unix Varients.

Configuring your SHOUTcast Server
If you wish to configure the SHOUTcast server, the configuration file (sc_serv.ini in Win32, sc_serv.conf in Unix Varients) contains several options that can be changed.

For issues not covered here, please check the SHOUTcast.com community-moderated forums.


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