

If I am the only voice, then I just use my USB headset if in the case when I broadcast with Bryan Alexander, I used the built in mic on my MacBookPro (which also created more room like effects), but plugged the speaker end of my headsets into the headphone jack (I have a Sennheiser that allows my to use USB or just the plugs). You must set up headphones to monitor the output- do not leave your speakers open, unless you want to stream bone breaking feedback. This is cleaner than trying to manually switching songs. In iTunes, I create a playlist for the audio I want to use- this would be if you want to DJ, or a list of creepy sounds you want to use. This guide covers how to set it up when you want to mix, say audio and music, as I have used for Scary Stories from Stawberry.Īnd I am not an expert! I defer to a real one on sound software. Streaming music from your computer is easy if you use Nicecast to stream from an application (say iTunes). This is not going to be a comprehensive guide to Nicecast- actually their built in help is rather detailed, and it is where I went to school. With the zaniness of free form live broadcasting in the ds106 radio space, people are sorting out the various live streaming tools and learning as we go.


We suggest that you download one from our third-party applications page.I’m a huge fan of Rogue Amoeba’s streaming software for OS X, Nicecast, and have used it before for broadcasting for projects at NMC. In addition to Icecast, you will most likely need to download a source client for creating the actual stream. Older releases can be found here Source Clients Packages are signed by the openSUSE OBS multimedia project GPG key.Packages are built with openSSL enabled, to ease setting up HTTPS streaming/access.You can think of it as a “PPA” or whatever your distro calls this. That can be added to the distro package manager. provides official builds of latest Icecast, packaged for various distributions, using their.In most cases packaging will also provide necessary scripts/files to make Icecast start as a service on boot.įor details please refer to the package repository section of your distribution’s fine manual. This is the preferred way to install Icecast, as distribution packaging is tuned to make Icecast fit well into your system. Most current Linux and Unix distributions provide either prebuilt binary packages or a way to build your own package of Icecast.
