How to stream live radio to my home ?

Hi everybody,

I've been in SL for about a month, just bought myself a small piece of land.
Just big enough to build my little house on, but now I want to stream real radio music to it. I know it's possible becourse I've been in some place that had real radio playing on them.

So can anyone tell me how I can do that ??

or is sombody nice enough to give me a url to one with some nice music on ti ?

Greetz and Thx

Click World at the top of the screen.
Click About Land.
Click Media.
Insert URL (not the text after it) into top text feild.
Hit Enter.

And you're done.

http://sh1.audio-stream.com:8760 = Variant Radio
http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/1010 = Sky FM - Absolutely Smooth Jazz
http://212.72.165.25:9234 = projectVIBE
http://4.78.0.70:80 = Ambient Music

I managed to do this a couple of days ago. The first bit is simple, the second less so!


First you need to right click your land and then open 'about land'. Click the 'media' tab and that has a space for yiou to add the URL of your chosen streaming radio station. Once the URL is in that space the land will play the station.

The difficult bit is finding the actual URL of the stream. Look on the Shoutcast website for a station. What you have to do then is save the location and
find its URL, which is usually in the form of a load of numbers.

I can't remember the exact procedure but I searched things like 'streaming radio/second Life in Google.

I see someone got an informative post in before me - so you sjhould be able to hear something!

Firstly, go to www.shoutcast.com and if you don't have it already, download and install Winamp.

Secondly, choose a music stream you want using the search facility. Don't pick an AAC+ stream because SL doesn't like them.

Click on the "Listen" button by the stream of your choice and wait for Winamp to open and start playing.

If it suits your tastes (remembering many stations play a mix), then hit ALT 3 to bring up the stream info box. At the top will be a number sequence like http://195.56.193.61:8844. Highlight this with your mouse, then hit CTRL C to copy the URL to your clipboard.

Then click on the land name and pick "Media" as described elsewhere in this post and paste (CTRL V) the URL into the "Audio" box.

The music play box should then appear, and then you can just click "play" to hear it.

In theory at least

In practice, it's probably better to choose a lower bandwidth stream (24 or 48 rather than 128 or 160) because the less bandwidth your audio is chewing up, the more is available to Second Life to run smoother. You can't always tell the difference between 24k and 128k streams unless you have really good speakers, and turn it up very loud.

Broccoli

I was about to ask this same question on the forum when I saw this thread.

Until now, I've used a radio because it was easier to turn on and off, not to mention change stations. But I wanted to give this a try on some land for a shop and really didn't want to have to buy another radio and use the prims, even.

Woow Thx every one for helping me out

Not ever station uses Shoutcast.

http://dir.xiph.org/index.php

Some use a different opensource technology called Icecast