Again, Sanjay and I played with last week’s assignment involving internet radio and broadcasting audio. We used my machine as well as the streaming audio kit in the equipment room (ER). For both, we used the client for mac called Nicecast. It took us awhile to configure the client correctly with the server, because we didn’t quite understand that Icecast is a server, while Nicecast is a client, with built-in server capabilities. The advantages of using the dedicated server versus our own machine relates to bandwidth, a static ip, availability, and other things which I forget.
Our idea (implementation in progress) is to build a battle page that allows two uninterrupted streams to be available for visitors to hear and vote for. Both broadcasts would come from the same location, likely a karaoke party. It would be great, live fun! It shouldn’t be too difficult to implement. Sanjay and I just need to get better with these AJAX/PHP skills. We are thinking a message board for trash-talking might be a necessary addition as well.
ADDED: a working (non-pretty) version.
Suggested reading for the week is the Radio And Internet Newsletter.