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Isabela Ferina
Horse & Dance Fanatic
Join date: 31 Jul 2009
Posts: 11
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09-01-2009 15:05
How do I play my own music, which is all on itunes, in SL. From what I have read you need to have and external server to put your music on and then you can put the url in your land tab. I also know DJ's have something they use and have to pay SL to have so many listeners be able to listen to the music....is this at all related? Basically I just want to listen to my music on my land...not for a business...just personal use. Please help if you know how. Many thanks.
If this has been answered before, I apologize, but I did a search and still did not find what I was looking for.
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Namssor Daguerre
Imitates life
Join date: 18 Feb 2004
Posts: 1,423
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09-01-2009 18:44
The cheapest and easiest way used to be Media Master. That FREE beta service is no more, however there are similar services (not entirely free) available such as Lala and Bluetunes. Bluetunes is probably the easiest to set up for streaming into SL, but it will cost you some $$ to stream it to your land. Alternatively, you can run Bluetunes on your machine in the background for free just like Itunes. Your only advantage (if you consider it to be an advantage) over Itunes is the fact that the music resides in the Cloud.
Like you mentioned, you can also set up an Ampache server, with the help of a few applications, and stream your music into SL for free. It's not as straight forward a setup, and requires disk space and a machine that can run as a server.
I use Bluetunes for the time being, but have not invested any $$ into streaming the music into SL. I'm holding out to see what other Cloud services develop over time.
I hope this helps.
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Kidd Krasner
Registered User
Join date: 1 Jan 2007
Posts: 1,938
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09-01-2009 19:16
SL audio expects a ShoutCast stream, which can come from a ShoutCast, IceCast, or other compatible server. These servers take a single source stream and make it available to multiple listeners. Each listener has its own connection to the server.
If you only have two or three listeners and good cable upload speeds, you could run one of these servers at home. However, the typical cable connection can't support the number of listeners that you need for an SL club, for example. Hence most DJs or clubs rent an external server. There are many different ones, with different rate schemes, so shop around.
Either way, you need a way to get the source material to the server. On MS Windows, this can be done using the WinAmp with the ShoutCast plugin (all free), though most DJs use commercial software called SAM, which is far more powerful.
On a Mac, there's an inexpensive streaming program called NiceCast.
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