We are pleased to announce that we are currently running a special on our popular Custom Player product.
The price has been heavily reduced and is now just $34.95 per year! Secure Order Now
Custom Player is a great way to increase your listener base, it allows listeners to gain direct access to your radio station from their Windows desktop.
Just a quick post, for those of you who haven’t already seen it, SHOUTcast have re-launched their official website.
It boasts a new design in preperation for SHOUTcast Version 2, which will be launched soon (we hope!).
Check out their website; www.shoutcast.com/
All Wavestreaming SHOUTcast Hosting customers will be upgraded to the new server software when it is released.
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
http://butt.sourceforge.net/ (Free)
http://rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ (Paid)
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…
http://www.youtube.com/Wavestreaming - Subscribe!
To sign up with Wavestreaming SHOUTcast and take advantage of our Geo Location Maps - visit our website;
We use Google Maps to allow you to keep a very close eye on your listeners, in real time.
Zoom in on your listeners. Try and spot the millenium wheel!
A fabulous little tool has come out from our development office recently, we have launched ‘active radio monitor’ which is a free little system-tray application which is designed to monitor SHOUTcast listener counts in realtime.
Not only can it monitor a single server, but you can add a group of upto 5 servers via its online control panel - allowing you to keep a close eye on all of your SHOUTcast radio streams.
Its free to download to anyone - even non wavestreaming customers and you can get hold of a copy from our website; just follow the instructions…
http://www.wavestreaming.com/radiomonitor/
Our development wizards have been busy yet again working their magic with your currently playing song titles. As you may or may not know, SHOUTcast has a ‘now playing’ field which will usually display the current on-air song.
To access this, we have for years provided a simple snippet of javascript to paste onto your website, however, this has always needed to have the page refresh before it will update. We have now created a system so it updates automatically, without the need for the page to refresh.
The best bit - the code you guys actually paste onto your website is still exactly the same (see example below) - we understand that lots of code can confuse you! thats why we have always had a simple ‘cut & paste’ ethos when it comes to stuff for your websites.
Following feedback, we have added a download link for iTunes to this as well. So if a listener likes a song you are playing on the radio - not only can they find out what it is, but then they can go to download it instantly from iTunes.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.wavepanel.net/P6B5U2OPYWZ0VG1Y/status/song/"></script>
A ‘port 80 proxy’ sounds a bit technical doesn’t it? Well, its a very simple principle, it is fair to say that many of your potential listeners will be at work, school, college or university during the day - thats pretty straight forward, yes?
The problem arises when these potential listeners want to listen to your radio station, but they cannot as the corporate firewall or network setup wherever they are working or studying from is preventing them from connecting to your SHOUTcast server on port XXXX - although there is no risk in listening to a streaming server, often un-used ports are blocked because they can ‘potentially’ open up a risk via other means to the network they are often blocked to prevent employees from playing games too whilst at work.
This is why we have introduced a port 80 streaming link for ALL of our SHOUTcast customers. It allows the stream to bypass the normal XXXX port and go via port 80. Port 80 is a port which will ALWAYS be open on networks as its the same port as websites get sent through, the text you are reading on this blog - will have been sent via the internet to your PC on port 80, so in other words - if you can read this, you’ll be able to listen to a port 80 shoutcast stream.
A demo of this service is availabe here:
http://public.wavepanel.net/P6B5U2OPYWZ0VG1Y/listen/80/
As mentioned before, this service is available on ALL SHOUTcast streaming accounts with Wavestreaming.
Our parent company Igniso Limited has launched a new software package ‘StreamStats’ for people who operate Windows Media Services and wish to provide public, live statistics of their WMS publishing points.
StreamStats provides a realtime overview of statistics for publishing points running on Microsofts Windows Media Services in listener stats are outputted in HTML, XML and CSV formats.
More information can be found on the StreamStats website:
http://www.streamstats.info/
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