Streaming from iTunes... ?

Hi all - cant see a music forum (?) anybody know about streaming iTunes from own computer for a club? Any DJs do this?

Thanks...

Cat x

I would assume its possible, though have never tried it.

Theoretically all you should need to do is stream the music over your network to a fixed ip that is accesible to the outside world, then link the audio stream to that ip in SL.

Zog

From what I've read, you need to use one of the online services such as a Shoutcast server - since each listener connects individually, your home connection doesn't really have enough bandwidth to accomodate a large number of listeners at once. Many of the DJ's in SL stream from home, but use an intermediary system that gives them more bandwidth.

There's a Linden article on this in Help.
And you can Search the forums... try "DJ" as the search term.
And in-world, try a search on 'Shoutcast'... In-world stores sell the shoutcast service as well. and they have SL-specific notecards to help you get started.

Here is one of the articles from help...
http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=083

If you are on a pc, then probably winamp + shoutcast plugin and an rented external shoutcast server is the way to go...

Or on a mac nicecast (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/) instead of winamp and it would link into your itunes music and then just stream to an external shoutcast server via nicecast.

Jamie
Steaming Live Audio - Shoutcast / IceCast Hosting HQ (Bisque 245,155)