SHOUTCAST is a cross-platform streaming media server used to broadcast digital audio content from supported media player softwares. You can consider Shoutcast as a streaming server like windows media server where you can stream audio and video through winamp or any 3rd party applications. Shoutcast is a product from Nullsoft and is widely used by many webmasters and professionals to create internet radio networks. You can setup radio station easily. For implementing shoutcast tchnology you need to have a highly configured dedicated server. You should check if your webhost support Shoutcast for their hosting plans. Shoutcast is cheap and afordable option for settingup internet broadcast station. Its widely used by major radio owners. Shoutcast can be install on Linux as well as on Windows hosting platform.
If you are planing to install and run Shoutcast on your Linux Dedicated server you can follow following steps :
Shoutcast works on client-server model, its always recommended to create a shoputcast user rather then using it as a root user. There are security issues if you use it as root user.
1.) Login to your server as a root
2.) adduser shoutcast
3.) passwd shoutcast
you need to provide a new password and make sure you remember it.
Now you need to login to this new shoutcast user using su shoutcast
*) INSTALLING SHOUTCAST :
You need to install shoutcast for this you will have to grab shoutcast application from Nullsoft.
Use :
wget http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads/s…-glibc6.tar.gz
*) EXTRACTING SHOUTCAST :
Now you need to extract shoutcast using following command
tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
*) CONFIGURING SHOUTCAST :
You need to manage all shoutcast extracted files.
rm -rf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
mv shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6 shoutcast
cd shoutcast
Now you have to edit few file usign
pico sc_serv.conf or visc_serv.conf command
Now you need to set some important configureation options and will have to change few settings in the file:
MaxUser
Password
PortBase
uncomment AdminPassword and set an admin password.
You need to set and change setting as per your requirements or can save and start shoutcast. Use crtl+x to save setting you have made.
That’s all your server is ready with Shoutcast installed on it and now you can use it for radio broadcasting.
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This post was written by admin on September 19, 2008
