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Catch All Discussion Board / Re: Before I give up

« Last post by oldgold on September 09, 2013, 09:06:39 AM »

Yes, that was very informative and helpful.  Both the VPS and PS bring the cost to the brink of what I want to spend.  I am pretty sure that I am going to take the station off the air, either at the end of October when my Stream Licensing expires or at the end of December when my Shoutcast Server expires. 

I may try offering a program in syndication or just spend more time at the pool or in front of the TV. 

If I decide to to do a program for syndication, would you suggest installing Breakaway on my Windows 7 machine?  I tried a few trial programs (shows).  Some of them I pre-recorded the audio and added them as voice tracks in RadioDJ.  Some I recorded in VirtualDJ. Some of them  I used a mixing board and recorded in Audacity.  Some I recorded in Audition.  At this point I found Audition to give the best sound quality.  Would Breakaway work in conjunction with Audition and improve the sound quality?

Thank You.  As always, you have amazing insight and have generously shared it. 

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Catch All Discussion Board / Re: Before I give up

« Last post by icastcenter on September 05, 2013, 10:47:08 PM »

Breakaway Live is well worth the money in my opinion, with the sound quality it pumps out. It provides these virtual windows sound devices called audio pipelines. You output your radio automation software to one of the audio pipelines (shows up as a sound card).

Then Breakaway pulls in the audio from that, then does it's processing, and then outputs to another audio pipeline.

Then your encoding software can read from the output audio pipeline and send your stream off to your stream server.

Windows Server 2003 (rather than 2008) works best for this in a datacenter environment, since Windows XP/7/etc cannot be licensed in data centers. Sometimes there are some settings that need to be tweaked, which I'm sure others on this forum have more experience with that could help you with if you run into issues.

If you go with a VPS (virtual private server) instead of a dedicated server, then you will have reboots to deal with, limited disk space, shared network resources, etc. A VPS could end up being no better than your home Internet you're dealing with now if you don't get the VPS from the right place. Then if you do find the right place, every time there's an upgrade, etc, you will have to deal with node reboots, etc, that are beyond your control.

If stability is what you are going after for your station, and you don't have the ability to broadcast reliably from your home Internet connection, and you want more features than say LiveWebDJ.com, then the best thing to do is get a fully dedicated server. Most stream hosts can provide a dedicated server.

What you'll want to look for when choosing a provider is:
- Do they own their servers or resell for someone else?
- Do they operate their own multihomed network?
- What support they will offer you when you need it?
i.e. What can you expect to be included in the regular monthly price?

I hope this has steered you in the right direction and provided some valuable information.

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Catch All Discussion Board / Re: Before I give up

« Last post by oldgold on September 04, 2013, 03:18:07 PM »

Thanks.  I will see what I can find on that. 

update: breakaway live $129

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Catch All Discussion Board / Re: Before I give up

« Last post by admin on September 04, 2013, 12:21:50 PM »

I use Breakaway Live on a windows 2003 server at a datacenter and it comes with a digital pipeline. Windows 2003 and probably 2008 don't work perfectly with digital pipelines but it far beats trying to put up with bad DSL. You can purchase a digital pipeline alone for less than $50 if memory serves me.

Marvin

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StreamLicensing Blog / Google Wallet Replaced By Amazon Simple Pay

« Last post by admin on September 04, 2013, 12:18:49 PM »

If you were paying by Google Wallet, that option has been replaced by Amazon's payment gateway. StreamLicensing switched gateways because Google is discontinuing their Google Wallet payment gateway for online service providers.

To summarize: Presently you can pay using PayPal (manually-pay-each-time) payments, PayPal (setting up an automatic payment profile), Amazon Payments (manually-pay-each-time payments), Credit Cards over the phone, and finally you can set up automatic credit card payments over the phone.

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Catch All Discussion Board / Before I give up

« Last post by oldgold on September 02, 2013, 10:26:40 AM »

I have tried several different automation programs and found that all of them are lacking the warmth of live radio that I am looking for . . . except RadioDJ. 

The problem is that from my location I am unable to maintain a stream to the shoutcast server (any server).  In my area there are two choices for internet: Verizon DSL and Time Warner Cable.  I have both.  TWC being Business Class approximately equal to T1.  You can't image how bad Verizon DSL is in this area.  Even third party providers that use Verizon won't accept accounts in this area. 

The bottleneck however seems to be El Lay.  I just can't maintain a signal through Los Angeles and I even tried streaming to a shoutcast server located in Los Angeles. 

So my next plan (and last plan before I abandon this project) is to get a remote VPS with Windows 2008 (or up) that can run RadioDJ and stream to the shoutcast server without breaking up.  That I can probably do easily, but RadioDJ needs a sound card. 

I have attempted to use VAC and VSC, but they are very complicated to set up and they have little, if any, instructions when you buy them.  Even tutorials on YouTube did not address my specific needs.

I am hoping someone here is using a VPS to run RadioDJ or similar software that requires a sound card and can offer tips on how to set it up with a virtual sound card.  Any other tips and suggestions would be appreciated. 

The closest automation to what I want was LiveWebDJ, but as amazing as it is, it also lacked  features that I need to do what I want. 

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Commonly Asked Questions / Re: StationPlayList Streamer and Securenet Systems

« Last post by thomas on August 30, 2013, 08:03:51 AM »

Well howdy =-)

I hear you stream =-) But your album art and song information is not showing up =-( Is this what you are trying to fix ?

Thomas
Big Mix Radio
All Star 80s

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Commonly Asked Questions / StationPlayList Streamer and Securenet Systems

« Last post by GalvCom on August 30, 2013, 06:48:09 AM »

Well, as usual something that should be simple... I have an "issue" with!
We have created our paylists in the software SPL.  I got the 3rd party encoder information from the folks at securenet systems.  I entered the information (I thought correctly)... but only our "on demand" files are playing... not our "live stream".  Now I can not get the "streamer" software to open back up so I can change what ever I have done wrong 

Anyone have experience with StationPlayList??

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Broadcasting Software / Lunarcaster

« Last post by Brutish on August 04, 2013, 02:36:06 AM »

Im starting to become a big fan of it.  It  had some bugs to work out, but overall a great program for the price of free, written in XML (no heavy DB) and a lot of thought from a very hard driven developer who created it.

http://www.lunarcaster.com/

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Radio Web Site Developmemt / Re: HTML code cleaner

« Last post by Brutish on August 04, 2013, 12:13:47 AM »

I personally prefer alleycode editor.  Its like notepad++ on steroids.  A lot easier to program IFF functions if your working in the backend of WP.