Distribution for Web Radio Station

[simeon.mattes]

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to find a good distribution for Web Radio Station. I know that there is Ubuntu Studio and 64studio.

Actually I'm trying to find some information which is the best but it seems that there aren't any books for neither of two.

Could anyone help me

Thanks in Advance

[studio32]

There are no books, only some wiki's and documentation. Check www.64studio.com or www.ubuntustudio.org

maybe it's better to find someone who is doing radio with linux.. he can help you probably the best

[raboof]

I'm trying to find a good distribution for Web Radio Station. I know that there is Ubuntu Studio and 64studio.

I hear dyne::bolic is specifically targeting web radio streaming - haven't used it myself though.

[simeon.mattes]

There are no books, only some wiki's and documentation. Check http://www.64studio.com or http://www.ubuntustudio.org

maybe it's better to find someone who is doing radio with linux.. he can help you probably the best

Where I could find someone? Actually it seems that radio with linux is a little bit rare. I have found many applications in windows but I prefer linux because of its stability and security.

[studio32]

Maybe this could be helpful?

http://www.rivendellaudio.org/

http://blog.tryphon.org/alban/archives/ ... nd-ubuntu/

http://blog.tryphon.org/alban/archives/ ... ianubuntu/

[simeon.mattes]

Hi again,

I would like also to ask which distribution is better for audio processing. I have already installed ubuntu studio but it seems 64 studios is better. I have also found and a distro based on openSuse: JackLab.

So, if anyone has tested them (ubuntu studio, 64 studio, JackLab), which one is the best?

Thanks in advance

[studio32]

The official jacklab is a bit outdated AFAIK, but of course you can make an Jacklab of your opensuse installation. Opensuse has a lot of up to date audio packages AFAIK.

Ubuntu studio is good.

64studio 3.0, is the one I would recommend. Stable basis and up to date audio packages. Others might advise another distro. Try it!

The best distro is the one you knows best....

[spm_gl]

If you're prepared for some serious scripting, look at liquidsoap http://savonet.sourceforge.net/ for your web radio. It's hell to get set up, but extremely versatile and stable. We used it to build an instore radio system, distibuting music and ads over the net to 5 stores.
On the distro side, I had no luck with 64studio, and major problems with ubuntustudio 9.04, so I use ubuntustudio 8.04 and compile what I need.

[simeon.mattes]

Thanks all for your replies.

Liquidsoap seems very interesting, though I have found some already made softwares which I haven't tested them yet. Though every of this program is only dealing with mp3 and ogg and not acc files which have a better quality at the same bit rate.

Could you be more specific about Liquidsoap and give some more examples?

I have already build a site based on drupal and I need something for live audio streaming. For now I have only podcasting. (147.102.16.29, I would be obliged if you could give me your opinions, though it's not yet ready)

Thanks again

[spm_gl]

Get Liquidsoap 0.9 running on your server, forget about the GUI, set it up so it plays 24/7 from a playlist, with Jingles now and again, and make an input that goes live as soon as you feed it. Into that input you feed your stream from your local studio, i.e. a media player and a microphone. Then you can go online anytime, and as soon as you're bored or have to go earn money, liquidsoap can automatically switch over to a playlist again, perhaps with a nice jingle over the fade.
We use ist for unattended music players in hardware-stores, either relaying a stream or playing from a playlist if the network connection is down, as wel as adding advertisements every half hour or so. Took a while to set up, but now its been running for six months without any problems.
P.S. liquidsoap can be rather tricky to set up and quite complex. If you decide to use it and need help, send me a PM. I spent about 3 months setting up our players.

[simeon.mattes]

No matter what I will use I need an audio stream server. What choices do I have...The only reliable solutions are icecast and shoutcast. The first I can't configure it and I don't know why and in the second every time I try to connect through a browser I'm getting a message of invalid password...

Any suggestions of an audio stream server?

[spm_gl]

icecast2 worked just about out-of-the-box form me. It only does ogg though. Haven't found any decent others. I even tried to set up a helix server, but in the end stuck to icecast2.

[simeon.mattes]

What about icecast? It supports and mp3

[spm_gl]

I only needed ogg, and at 48kbit mono (streaming through a VPN) it sounds way better than mp3. And its free from licensing issues. Actually, I wish more webradios would stream in ogg, just to get it more widespread.
But I guess setting up icecast shouldn't be more difficult than icecast2.
Before using liquidsoap, we had a custom script system using mpd and icecast, but it was never really stable, and hell to maintain.