Club-Hating DJ Seeks Irregular M3U Streaming Service For Live Mix Sessions
July 15, 2008 10:30 PM Subscribe
Is there any provider that gives you streaming server short-term/irregular rentals for an M3U stream?
I'm using Nicecast on my Mac in connection with Traktor and would like to do a thrice-monthly mix session type thing with my records. The companies I've looked at online have all assumed I wanted to constantly broadcast instead of just offering one-off live events or the like. Has anyone in the green set up such a thing or know of a service? I'd gladly pay $10-$20 for a 2-hour session for 100 listeners or so at 128kbps, but I really don't want to spend $400 a month to offer it constantly.
I'm using Nicecast on my Mac in connection with Traktor and would like to do a thrice-monthly mix session type thing with my records. The companies I've looked at online have all assumed I wanted to constantly broadcast instead of just offering one-off live events or the like. Has anyone in the green set up such a thing or know of a service? I'd gladly pay $10-$20 for a 2-hour session for 100 listeners or so at 128kbps, but I really don't want to spend $400 a month to offer it constantly.
Response by poster: Are you comfortable enough with a Unix-style command line to install and configure Icecast on a server? If so, it's worth looking into a grid computing provider like Amazon EC2. The CPU time plus outgoing bandwidth for 100 listeners would cost you about 26 cents an hour, plus 50 cents a month or so to store your server image.
I would be glad to pay someone to do this and pay the fees. I am a complete incompetent twit when it comes to UNIX.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 8:47 PM on July 16, 2008
I would be glad to pay someone to do this and pay the fees. I am a complete incompetent twit when it comes to UNIX.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 8:47 PM on July 16, 2008
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posted by teraflop at 9:15 AM on July 16, 2008