Hi Rick, and if you use a program like Sound Forge of Goldwave, does What
You hear work as you would expect? Because it sounds like you're doing
everything right and that the sound card may be the issue.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 25 May 2007 1:12 p.m.
To: PC audio discussion list. 
Subject: Re: Shoutcast help needed

Yes I'm sending silence.  The number of bytes does go up so I can tell the
data is streaming.  I even get the right header for the song on the other
end but all I get in the stream is silence.
when I set the input mode back to winamp my audio stream is heard again.

Rick


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:55 PM
Subject: RE: Shoutcast help needed


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


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----- 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



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