Streaming audio service recommendation?

March 22, 2008 11:37 PM

Recommend a streaming audio service, please?

A couple clients of ours have asked us to provide not only web hosting, but streaming audio of their radio stations as well. We use Ritech Hosting for all our hosting services, but their prices for streaming audio are too high.

Googling around, I've found some providers that charge as little as $21/mo for 56k quality and 200 listeners, which sounds quite reasonable, but not only have I never heard of them, I can't find any reviews either. Has any of you used the services of a company you could recommend?

Equally helpful would be if anyone could point to a forum or site with user reviews of such a service.

Thanks!

posted by papafrita to computers & internet (3 comments total)

I switched to stream101.com awhile back and it seems just fine so far. Their support people were very prompt when I was setting it up and had questions. I don't have any affiliation with them other than being a customer of their shoutcast service, so I wouldn't want to come off like a shill or anything, but I hadn't seen any answers to this and thought it was at least worth a mention if it helps.
posted by First Post at 2:34 PM on March 23

Thank you. I guess not many mefites have experience with this.. at least not the kind that visit the site on weekends! This is exactly the kind of answer I'm looking for: a recommendation by someone who is happy with the provider's services.

Gracias.
posted by papafrita at 4:34 PM on March 23

You can use Ices to get their audio to your machines, and then Icecast as the audio-server itself. Thus you could keep web serving and audio serving in one place.
posted by eclectist at 11:16 PM on March 23