cptsparkle Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Hello, I need your opinion, education and experience. Just suppose a jock wanted to broadcast from his/her PC on one coast and the station/transmitter is on the other coast. I know about Source Connect, but that's a real expensive solution. I'm aware that a dedicated ISDN line will do the trick. I'm also aware that streaming from one PC to another PC and then having the station connect the stream is another solution. However, the third solution does present the chance the stream will sound, well ... streamy! In attempting to hit time marks at either end what would be required for this and the stream concurrently? Thanks in advance folks for your input. Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johny c Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 You can stream it with shoutcast from you pc and play it on the transmitter end with winamp or what ever player you use and then into the transmitter. We use that system on my radio station every day. RAG-FM 107.7 Raglan New Zealand & ragfm.com ........"Top Music Top of the Dial" Click HERE to listen to the RAG-FM radio stream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoutcaststreaming Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 We have dozens of stations with their PC on one coast and the Shoutcast server on the other coast. As Johnny C says, it works just fine. If your ping time is about 100 msec or so at 128k, you will be ok. If you are using 512k for video, that is something else. Perhaps you can tell us if you have some sort of issues doing this. Most stations don't have the luxury of their transmitter being just around the corner from their broadcast PC. SCS - Dedicated Bandwidth Servers Shoutcast / Icecast / Windows Media Transcoding - Auto DJ - Mobile Radio - FLASH Players - Auto DJ Broadcasting World's Stream Host of the Month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptsparkle Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 Very good news from both of you. Right now all it is, is an opportunity. I like what I heard. Thanks you guys and have a great evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisMachek Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Something to think about for sure is the delay time due to shoutcast. Depending on a lot of factors, I'd say you're going to have a minimum 12 - 20 second delay at 128kbps between when West Coast Studio pumps it in, and East Coast Transmitter hears it. This can be particularly difficult to time a DJ sign off on the east, and having the west stream start right away. You would have to have an idea of the delay, and time it through an IM with the other DJ. The other con to this is that network latency could cause the stream to skip, or to drop out completely. As a cheap option, this is probably the best though. It can cost as little as free because you could host your own server. Good luck, Curtis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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