Shoutcast alternative

Hi guys (and gals)

I am pretty new here but have found interests in streaming audio to my place in SL.
I have read about Shoutcast which seems to be the most common way to stream audio from your PC to SL, but as I understand it requires that you have a relay account with a host server to make it work.

I have a 6 MB fiber line at home and are looking for alternatives as I beleive I can do the hosting myself.
I have found a streamer server software called Broadwave.
I have it all set up and testet. I am able to stream music into internet by an url.
Here is my url which contains only one song by now:
http://midnightsundancebar.dyndns.org:85/broadwave.m3u?src=fblindman&kbps=128

My radio in SL, which I have added the url to the list, is not able to receive the sound even though I can do it via my browser.
I assume it might have something to do with the transmittion standard, format.
The music I am streaming is in MP3 and the played that loads on my PC is Windows Mediaplayer.

Is it so that SL sound does not support streames MP3 format or am I tottaly lost here ?
Maybe I have it all mixed up ???

Thanks for any help.

Norseman

SL does require a Shoutcast server, just as for Video, SL requires Quicktime, so unfortunately that software will not work with SL, I believe you can get shoutcast software however, here is a link that has further info, hope this helps. http://www.shoutcast.com/download/serve.phtml

Sounds to me like your setup is fine.
I went to your SunDanceBar URL, however. That's an M3U file. IF memory serves, it needs to be a 'live' MP3 or ogg stream. The M3U format is usually a 'Playlist', not an actual stream.

A shoutcast server is NOT a requirement. Shoutcast is a way of:
1. Announcing your streams on the Shoutcast web site, so users can find you.
2. Adding to your audio stream things like the name of the song and artist.
3. And their SERVER is a way of getting around bandwidth constraints that you don't have.
(low speed users send ONE stream to the server, and the server sends MANY copies to the listeners. Most of us don't have 6 Megs for all those listeners)

I'm not familiar with Broadwave, but I think VLC, Quicktime, and Shoutcast have free audio server software that will send MP3's and OGG from your PC.

say i had a host for my shoutcast server, when people connect in SL through the streaming audio of the land which would be the hosted server, does that count as a single listener no matter how many people are on the land, or does each avatar count as a listener

Every single SL client counts as listener. And theres an alternative to Shoutcast, called Icecast (http://www.icecast.org/). Both can be run from your home PC, as long as you got enough upload bandwidth to serve more than a few listeners ^_^

-Asriazh

do i need a private sl stream, if so how do i get one