Hi Rick, when this happens, can you tell if you are streaming silence? That is to say does the number of bytes sent in the Shoutcast Plug-in window keep increasing?
-----Original Message----- From: Rick Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 25 May 2007 12:49 p.m. To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Shoutcast help needed Hi Jonathan, I'm not a broadcaster so unfortunately this isn't all straight forward to me. I have seen the settings that you are talking about and have tried switching the input for the plug in to soundcard and then setting up the volume control for recording to what you hear and setting the playback microphone to unmuted. When I do this however I hear nothing from the server. No audio stream and no voice from the microphone. I've been working on this for a week now and am banging my head against the wall. I simply don't know how to get this done via winamp and the shoutcast plugin. I have no problems getting the audio stream to work. That part is actually pretty simple. But getting the voice over simply isn't working no matter what I try. Thanks for your help, Rick ======= Visit my webpage and podcast feed at www.blind-geek-zone.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:35 PM Subject: RE: Shoutcast help needed Hi Rick, this is really very straight forward. The only issue may be if the person concerned is using software speech through the same sound card that the material to be broadcast is coming from. In the Shoutcast DSP plug-in for Winamp, there are two modes. One sends data direct from Winamp itself. In other words, if you play an MP3 file, then the MP3 data is transcoded to the bit rate you select, and then sent over the Internet. This is nice because you can minimise Winamp and use your sound card for other things while streaming music. It doesn't facilitate talking over music though. The other mode simply broadcasts whatever is coming through the sound card. So all you have to do is select this mode, select "what you hear" or "stereo mix" or whatever the feature on that particular sound card is called that records what is being played through the sound card, and go for it. If the broadcaster is using a simple microphone plugged into the microphone socket, then the microphone will need to be unmuted in playback controls when speaking. While there are controls that do this for you in the Winamp DSP, a simple way to handle this is to leave the control unmuted and use a microphone with a switch. These can often be found on analogue headsets and some of them sound surprisingly acceptable. Now if software speech is coming through the same sound card, then either a second sound card or external synthesiser must be obtained, or you'd need to go to StationPlaylist Studio which is a fantastic solution and highly accessible. In the main menu archives you can still find a comprehensive series I did on Shoutcasting. Jonathan Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
