Comments on: Whats a good streaming source for Leopard?

Question: Whats a good streaming source for Leopard?

DJWeezy — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:23:16 -0800

What is a good icecast source client for leopard?

So I have recently begun trivia contests on some irc channels where i will host whoever wants to play some music and people will guess the song. I host these on my vps that runs icecast/shoutcast right now. Unfortunately i have yet to find a good program that will take the sound from my sound card on my mac and send it to my server for other people to listen too. When i was on windows i used oddcast. Anyone know of a good program for this? Also it need to not tell everyone what song is playing.

bonus: i was having trouble googling this, if you find one that way let me know you search terms.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:50:26 -0800

I use nicecast. Not free, but I spent an age trying the various mac options, and this allows you to capture the sound from your mac. If you can find it, there's also a piece of software called macAmpLite which may do what you want. It's a bitch to set up though. There are some instructions with other options here.

By: DJWeezy

DJWeezy — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:26:41 -0800

i saw nicecast but it seemed it could only act as a server, i have a server i want to send my sound to it.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:47:22 -0800

You have your hosted server.
nicecast takes the sound from your local mac and transmits that to your local server where it is broadcast to those who listen.

I feel there's maybe some conflict of terminology here, but from what I can tell, nicecast will do what oddcast does.

By: mkb

mkb — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:13:37 -0800

Nicecast can cast to a remote server as well. I did it for years.

By: DJWeezy

DJWeezy — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:52:05 -0800

Alright I just hadn't found the external server part in nicecast. If nothing better/free pops up i guess i will buy it.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:42:33 -0800

For completeness, to add your external server,
1) Click Window --> Show Server
2) Make sure the drawer on this window is open (This is the little button at the top of the screen below where it says server)
3) Click [+] to add a new server.
4) Enter your server details.
5) Make sure that your new server is the one that has its radio button checked.