New Yp preview released.

[NickSS]

Coming Soon to a web browser near you: The All-New SHOUTcast 2.0! This is not just a facelift of the web site but a complete end-to-end upgrade of the SHOUTcast platform. Read on to find out what we have been cooking up for you for the past few months:

 

All-New Station Directory:

We heard you loud and clear. You wanted easier navigation to find the stations you wanted to hear. You wanted better and faster search. You wanted more options to listen to your favorite SHOUTcast Radio stations. You also wanted the site to look pretty. We're giving you all that, and a lot more! Presenting the brand new SHOUTcast 2.0 Station Directory.

 

The SHOUTcast 2.0 station directory features:

Real-Time Search – Find music and audio content playing on SHOUTcast 2.0 stations in real time

'Coming Soon' search results searches against whats coming up next on SHOUTcast 2.0 stations

New genre list makes it easier to find stations that you are looking for

New bottom bar player lets to listen to music while you browse SHOUTcast stations at the same time.

New Popup player that is also embeddable on your website

Get station recommendations with the new "Featured Stations" section

Multiple sorting options including station name, genre, number of listeners, bitrate and type

Cleaner navigation to find broadcaster tool downloads

New Wiki for broadcasters

 

SHOUTcast 2.0 Broadcaster Tools & Platform:

Great news for SHOUTcast broadcasters and developers! We overhauled the engine to go with the shiny new paint. The completely re-written SHOUTcast 2.0 directory platform (aka YP2) and broadcaster tools (YP2 and tools already out on BETA) are a significant leap forward in the evolution of SHOUTcast. Some highlights include:

 

* All-new SHOUTcast YP2 protocol

* Real-Time metadata and stats reporting

* Static Station IDs!

* Streaming from port 80!

* Stream multiple stations from a single SHOUTcast server instance

* In-Stream metadata in standardized XML

* UTF-8 and international character support

* Support for multiple file-types including MP3, AAC+, FLAC, WAV and Ogg

* Improved server and stream security

 

Broadcasters: To take advantage of the new user facing features like real-time search you need to upgrade to SC 2.0, get in early and migrate ASAP! Find out how you can get started by visiting the broadcaster tools beta thread here.

 

Draft mock of the new SHOUTcast 2.0 directory:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.shoutcastblog.com/media/2010/06/schome012910.jpg

 

We're looking forward to the launch of the new directory site to go with the new tools very soon. Stay tuned for more updates right here on the forums, or follow us on Twitter, or the SHOUTcast blog!

[GKIye]

so far I'm not "the" technical guy ... I say thanks for these details and updates

Thanks Nick !

[EricVdM]

Thnx for sharing, I look forward to those new to directory

[Brutish Sailor]

Its good for web host, but horrible for broadcasters trying to avoid SC_Trans. A lot of the broadcasters are going to have headaches setting up the new SC2. I should set it up and make a tutorial.

 

The reason i say good for webhost is being able to do multiple source inputs. That means one server with multiple stations, and less server resources, as well as making it easier to put multiple stations on port 80.

[Man0r]

thanks for sharing too..

[BWorld]

I've been doing research and testing this out. No major issues so far.