Every day the number of Internet users increases. For someone the World wide web is just interesting pastime, for others – work or even life. In network it is possible to do practically everything: watch movies, look for useful information and also listen to favourite music on online radio stations. Perhaps, it is interesting to you how to create Internet radio.
There are several wrong opinions on creation of Internet radio.
- The first – for creation and support of radio is required a large number of powerful computers. Believe, it not so. Only one is necessary, but with continuous access in the Internet.
- The second – purchase of special software which costs very much. It is a lie too. At present there are many programs by means of which you will find the answer to a question: how to create Internet radio without any attachments?
What software will be required to create Internet radio
For this purpose the program of broadcasting online will be required. In Worldwide network there is a well-known company of Nullsoft. Worldwide the player of this vendor of Winamp is known. For a start it is necessary to download this program, further you will need SHOUTcast Server, SHOUTcast Plug-in.
The plug-in of SHOUTcast provides a continuous communication with the SHOUTcast server. This program is located on Shoutcast.com. To this address it is necessary to download the required SHOUTcast Server and SHOUTcast Plug-in programs. For this purpose we click Download. You should not worry that downloadings will occupy a long period. Their total amount does not exceed the 500th kilobyte. Also there is a choice of downloading under the operating system. Work on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris or Linux is guaranteed. This software is compatible to all types of operating systems.
Further it is required to select the folder for placement of the server of your radio station. Setup of applications with the preferred parameters will be required. Now you will be able to broadcast own radio. There is a set of similar analogs of SHOUTcast from Nullsoft. The choice for you. Now you know how to create Internet radio.