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Internet radio production - advice needed
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10-01-2013 12:14pm#1
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Hello,
I ran an Icecast and SAM based internet radio station for a year and a half at University. The simplest way to do things is to modularise the internet radio broadcast machine.
This post is more orientated you moving from ustream to an internet radio provider like I am more used to but the principles of steps 1 through to 5 are the same however you will be using the Ustream server when you reach step 3 so you can ignore the rest really.
Modules of an internet radio setup
Presenter & Music ---> Mixer ---> Encoder ---> Server ---> Listener
1) Presenter and Music
Presenter and music are two separate sources which could be routed into a small mixer. You will need a computer to host the music software. SAM is great however you can get away with a playlist on Windows Media Player, Mediamonkey or iTunes for a nice simple operation like your own. I have not used what you have downloaded, it could be quite good.
SAM allows you to add jingles, adverts and also bed music in a much more presenter friendly format. SAM allows you to program when you want a jingle or advert (for the next match or even local businesses if you start kicking booty). SAM can also be programmed to play files at specific times so if you ever wanted to create a pre-recorded show like a weekly league review you could do that and then tell SAM to play it at a certain time.
You can see how powerful things can get here.
2) Mixer
Regardless of what your music sources are, the music computer and any presenter microphones can be run into a small mixer. This allows you to have direct physical control when doing a live broadcast. You can play some music and have that as backing music to you speaking at certain times for instance (bed music).
Little fellows similar to the below would be able to take the stereo music computer signal on channel 5/6 and 4 presenter microphones on channels 1 - 4 (possible expansion of live or pre-recorded presenters/guests).
3) Encoder PC
This is a computer which runs software which takes the audio coming from the mixer and then sends it out via the internet to an Icecast or Shoutcast server or in your case, ustream.
I have never used ustream but it looks like its fairly simple and runs in a similar way.
All the encoder PC is doing is taking something and directing it somewhere else so you can get away with a cheap or free Pentium 4 Windows XP machine for instance.
4) Server
This is the bit you can have little control over. The server is what people actually log on to to listen. People go to your ustream page to listen and listen off ustream servers.
The station I worked at was lucky as we had our University host our stream which gave us huge potential for listeners with no limits. Ustream is a third party server which could have some sort of limits in terms of max listener count. That is a consideration for the future though you know more about ustream than I.
5) Then the listener hears your stream. This is handled by Ustream.0 -
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