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RealAudio - StreamBox Ripper, Now illegal due to law suits, but still lurking in warez sitz

Windows Media - ASFRecorder (google it)

Shoutcast/Icecast MP3 - Streamripper

-Jon

Heck, record your faourite songs off the radio.

Or just use Streamripper. It records songs off Shoutcast stations. Not only that, it places them in individual Mp3 files and names them. All perfectly legal under the fair use broadcast recording laws.

it's at my page www.bigfreakinserver.com

-Jon

I originally tried using the 25-user free version of the RealAudio server, but it had too many technical limitations, crashed frequently, limited our listenership, and stopped me from adding/changing features in the program, since it's binary only. Since then, I've been using icecast, which has 4 identical streams of differing quality (one for the intranet, 3 for modems). I'm using LAME to encode the MP3s, and liveice is setup to save the live broadcasts to an MP3 on the hard disk for archiving purposes. Afterhours, we rebroadcast the previous day's archive.mp3 using icecast's shout program. The transition from broadcasting the archives w/ shout to broadcasting live with liveice is handled by a couple cron scripts.

There's no keyboard on the server, but it has a perl script continuously running on tty10, displaying the current number of listeners, total listeners per day, average listening time, etc (all this is obtained from the icecast logfile).

We also keep about a week's worth of archives available for listeners to download on demand, and they are accessible through a little perl program I wrote called MP3 Report Generator.

When we started out, we thought bandwidth would be a problem if we had too many simultaneous listeners, so we signed up for a free account at live365.com, which relays our broadcast to up to 365 users. This worked out well, since we could redirect all our listeners to the live365 server and reduce the load on ours. I just found a funky little tool here that monitors your live365 stats (i haven't tried this yet, but i probably will).

If you're curious about more of the server stats, go to www.bwscampus.com/KBWS and click "about" on the lower left corner.

- the mad diPPer!

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I'm not stoned, I just chugged a pack of fUN dIP!

1. As mentioned above the premeir open-source on is www.icecast.org, The original is www.shoutcast.com, for additional resources and to talk to people their is www.shoutclub.com.

2. If you want to stream *live* audio then liveice (which is part of icecast) shout work, if you on windows then use the SC plugin for winamp.

3.One of the biggest problems isnt software its bandwidth!! A decent sounding stream is at least 56K minimum, even with a T1 your nadwidth can max out quickly, if your stream is non-commercial then look into www.live365.com which provides free bandwidth for non-commercial streams along with a slew of tools.

4. If you need more advice then check out www.bigfreakinserver.com. This is our site we have a forum which we monitor frequently and will be happy to answer any streaming questions. bigfreak pipes out 3 streams over a 768Kbps DSL line, running on a dual proc Celercon, running FreeBSD :).

5. Finally here is a little fun tools for all you stream listeners, called streamripper located at www.bigfreakinserver.com (Look in the PROJECTS section). Which allows you to hook up to an mp3 and rip the tracks directly to your hardrive :). very fun indeed.

Well enjoy the resources.

1. As mentioned above the premeir open-source on is www.icecast.org, The original is www.shoutcast.com, for additional resources and to talk to people their is www.shoutclub.com.

2. If you want to stream *live* audio then liveice (which is part of icecast) shout work, if you on windows then use the SC plugin for winamp.

3.One of the biggest problems isnt software its bandwidth!! A decent sounding stream is at least 56K minimum, even with a T1 your nadwidth can max out quickly, if your stream is non-commercial then look into www.live365.com which provides free bandwidth for non-commercial streams along with a slew of tools.

4. If you need more advice then check out www.bigfreakinserver.com. This is our site we have a forum which we monitor frequently and will be happy to answer any streaming questions. bigfreak pipes out 3 streams over a 768Kbps DSL line, running on a dual proc Celercon, running FreeBSD :).

5. Finally here is a little fun tools for all you stream listeners, called streamripper located at www.bigfreakinserver.com (Look in the PROJECTS section). Which allows you to hook up to an mp3 and rip the tracks directly to your hardrive :). very fun indeed.

Well enjoy the resources.

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if anyone wants to mail me them i'll be happy to keep a list on my site. www.bigfreakinserver.com

-Jon