We’ve just made it really easy for our clients to publish their song history live onto their websites.
Just with all of the other server data, due to popular request - we’ve added some Javascript to our Wavepanel system, which allows clients to put the song history on their websites from their SHOUTcast servers.
Here is a common question we get asked quite a bit.
“I want to broadcast a radio station using your SHOUTcast services, but I run an Apple Mac computer and use OS X - I can’t install Winamp and have no way of connecting to SHOUTcast. Is there any iMac Friendly software which I can use to stream to SHOUTcast?”
The answer (You’ll be glad to know!) is YES. We recommend the following 2 tools, which can both stream to shoutcast and be installed on Mac OSX
The best thing of all, one of these is open source so its completely free. The other is a paid application (Only $40) but they do have a free trial available!
So there is your answer! If you’re on a Mac, you have no excuse not to install one of these and get streaming!
Yet MORE social networking! This one will actually be a bit more informative. We are going to be making videos, to talk about all things streaming. James Mulvany our client manager here at Wavestreaming, introduces the new VideoCasts…
We have just secured 100mbit extra capacity for our customers with services in the USA. Due to the excellent pricing we have managed to get on this, we will be offering some substantially discounted streaming deals on high capacity 128k SHOUTcast servers on our US network for you guys which will be made available within the next couple of weeks.
Our INSANE pricing is as follows:
50 @ 128k SHOUTcast Server - ONLY $54.00/month (3 Available - Half Price!) 100 @ 128k SHOUTcast Server - ONLY $107.50/month (2 Available - Half Price!) 150 @ 128k SHOUTcast Server - ONLY $177.50/month (1 Available - Half Price!)
As you can see, we’re only going to offer 6 lucky people the chance to take advantage of this excllent pricing and its not very often we do a promotion on this scale. If you want to take advantage of this - you can book your server in advance, please contact our sales department via the form on our website and use subject ‘Blog Offer’.
The pricing shown above will be honoured on a monthly basis for the first six people to order. Servers will be made available on a first-come-first-served basis.
Wavestreaming.com customers will now be able to view their current listeners in Map form. We have added live listener maps to ALL SHOUTcast streaming accounts.
Our system finds out the geographic location of your listeners based on their IP address, it can then use the Google Maps service to create a visual representation of where they are in the world.
It also provides useful information such as the player they are using (iTunes, WIndows Media, Winamp, Realplayer, Flash Player etc) and the amount of time they have been listening to the stream.
This is an exciting and new service for our SHOUTcast customers. As part of our ongoing development roadmap, this service will be included free with all SHOUTcast hosting accounts.
To sign up with Wavestreaming SHOUTcast and take advantage of our Geo Location Maps - visit our website;
Independent SHOUTcast review website Radiotoolbox.com has given Wavestreaming the thumbs up. Out of around 20 other streaming companies, Wavestreaming is the only SHOUTcast stream host that has managed to sustain a uptime of 100% since the start of the 2008 year.
Other uptime records range from an appauling 25.787% through to a very close 99.960%. However, no other companies listed on the radiotoolbox site have managed to sustain flawless 100% uptime record.
Wavestreaming are very proud to have made it over 6 months into the year with an uptime record as good as this. It just shows our ongoing efforts and commitments to provide a high quality streaming service, utilizing a premium network which many other providers do not.
If you’d like your SHOUTcast server to have a high Wavestreaming level of uptime, please sign up via our website; www.wavestreaming.com/
We’ve had a number of requests in the past for Stream Geo Locking. This basically looks at the listener IP address and if they are in a country which is ‘disallowed’ from your stream - will not let them connect. It will then re-direct them either to a page on your own website explaining the geo-locking policy (allowed countries etc) or it will display a generic message explaining this.
This was introduced to our services a few months ago and is available to all SHOUTcast clients at no extra charge. Just look in the ‘Advanced’ section of your SHOUTcast server in Wavepanel and you’ll see an interface whereby you can set it up.
We have recently launched 2 new servers to serve Wavestreaming SHOUTcast hosting clients, this will provide an extra 200mbits of premium bandwidth to our already impressive network of dedicated streaming servers.
Our new UK server ‘Spring’ also has a cutting edge operating system, Windows Server 2008 - which Microsoft released at the end of last month. We are one of the first streaming companies to have access to this technology and we are excited to try out the new features on the latest version of Windows Media Services.
All new SHOUTcast signups are currently being put onto these fresh new servers! You can sign up via our website today. http://www.wavestreaming.com/
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