How to start with online radio? - Airtime Support Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

miljan stojanovic

Hello everyone, i am running Ubuntu 10.4, and i have a Dynamic ip. I want to know what should i do to have my online radio up and running and also to be able to be accessed over internet. Please be as descriptive as you can, cause i am a totally ignorant about all those host, server and all of that stuff.. :(
Do i need some website on internet or can i send my streams to public directly over my own home pc .
Thank you werry much for understanding...

Martin Konecny

Hi Miljan,

You will need a PC with Ubuntu that is directly connected to the internet (not behind a firewall or router). You can install Airtime on this PC, and then by giving out the internet address of this computer, people will be able to connect to your system and listen to your audio streams.

We also provide hosting for a monthly fee at www.sourcefabric.com if you find setting up and maintaining your Airtime server to much of a trouble.

Lastly you can try a shared public version of Airtime at http://airtime-demo.sourcefabric.org/

miljan stojanovic

And if i am using an airtime-demo version, can i send my stream links to my friends so they can listen, and how?

James Moon

Hi,

Here is the link that your friends need to listen to: http://airtime-demo.sourcefabric.org:8000/airtime_128

miljan stojanovic

Thank you! :) what could be causing this:

James Moon · Post edited by James Moon at 2012-02-07 09:01:44

Is that a screen shot from the demo site? or your own?

It looks like your username/password is not matching the one you configured on Icecast.

miljan stojanovic

It's from my own installation.

miljan stojanovic

I changed username to "relay" and it connected! ... But i am still on localhost and nothing happen here:

http://dir.xiph.org/search?search=Breakdown

miljan stojanovic

@Martin Konecny:

I thought that internet always comes through a router .. I only have a Desktop pc at my home. Do i need to install airtime on my ISP server then? I would really like to stream directly from my own pc. Is that really impossible or i need some other software for that task?

Martin Konecny

Is your machine behind a router? If so your computer is "hidden" from the internet. Your computer can make requests through the router, but anyone on the internet will only see your router and not your computer behind it.

You can make a simple configuration with your router so that if someone connects to your router requesting Icecast, then it forwards that request to your PC (this is called port forwarding). What router do you have?

Rick Munday

@Martin - can you check my thread - http://forum.sourcefabric.org/discussion/13738/stream-remove-bad-stream And verify this. We're running up on a deadline for the demo of Airtime and need to get it running so the members can see and vote on it.

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