Second Life Live Audio Broadcasting

Hello all,

I am trying to figure out the best way to have voice for my event where everyone can hear it on my land. What I am trying to do is connect myself and another person on the same stream so I can put it in the music stream on my land. We both live on the other side of the world and are trying to figure out how we can coincidely host the event at the same time.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

The easiest way is for all involved to use Skype, and do a conference call. I have doing this for yonks.

Rock

Yes but how can this be rebroadcasted back into Second Life?

Use the built-in voice. The right volume setting allows you to be heard pretty far.

Or, use a shoutcast server and virtual cable a conference call to the shoutcast server

If your using Skype in combination with standard DJ software then you will be able to feed the conference into a standard Shoutcast Stream. From memory however this will have to be a 100% live mic, so wouldn't work very well if your doing a multi-DJ radio show.

For the latter things get more complex as you need a means to bring the Skype feed in as an input which you can mute on the main output.. whilst retaining the ability to talk on Skype off air. The way some friends I used to DJ did it was with two PC's and a Mixing board. The setup allowed the mic to be fed into the Mixing board alongside the Skype PC (who's output became another mic input in the mixing board). The output of the board was set to feed the mic to both PC's.

Complex but I'm not aware of another way of doing a skype conversation where you want to be able to selectivly bring the skype conversation on air.

For this though, only those who are using voice will be able to hear you?

Can two people connect to a shoutcast stream at the same time?

Can this not be done as a live podcast where two people in SL can simultaneously stream the podcast from, say iTunes, in to their sims? Obviously there would be a delay so it would not be truly "live" but no-one listening would know that.

The shoucast sever is where one would set the music channel of the parcel media settings. Everyone could hear if their music channel is on.

Yes, this is how clubs in SL typically work. The common shoutcast server supports up to 100 users. There can be more, but it is based on bandwidth and if it is a paid service to host the shoutcast server.

You can only have one input into the shoutcast server, but by use of the virtual cable, you can mix several inputs before you send off the one input stream to the shoutcast server.