Actually, with liveice and icecast, it can work quite well. You can configure it to use different encoders like FhG and Xing to encode the audio live from the soundcard. I'm the student engineer at my station here in Miami, WVUM, and we're in the process of putting together a box for this purpose. Some guy from the school of communications tried to sell the advisory board on RealAudio, but for any decent amount of users, the licensing cost goes into the tens of thousands of dollars, even with an "educational discount." We're going to try to use Live 365 for starters, until we get more bandwidth from the university. If anyone has any advice or experience on that or any related issues, please feel free to share.
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Actually, with liveice and icecast, it can work quite well. You can configure it to use different encoders like FhG and Xing to encode the audio live from the soundcard. I'm the student engineer at my station here in Miami, WVUM, and we're in the process of putting together a box for this purpose. Some guy from the school of communications tried to sell the advisory board on RealAudio, but for any decent amount of users, the licensing cost goes into the tens of thousands of dollars, even with an "educational discount." We're going to try to use Live 365 for starters, until we get more bandwidth from the university. If anyone has any advice or experience on that or any related issues, please feel free to share.