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Help creating live streaming from my site

Mar 3, 2008 5:05AM PST

I have a website that I am developing and I would like to stream live audio (music) from it and video but not as crucial right now. My hosting server is linux but I would assume that I would have to stream the comtent from my server or pc at home I have windows server 2003 and windows xp pro. If someone can point me in the right direction I would be greatful.

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Just checking.
Mar 3, 2008 5:10AM PST

You did go to google.com and type in...

How do I stream music from my Linux server?

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Tried that
Mar 3, 2008 5:14AM PST

I tried that most of what I get are service providers or does not help me. Google is always my first option. Any other ideas

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What I find are articles about what software to install.
Mar 3, 2008 5:23AM PST

Then I have to decide to do that. So you didn't notice the first hit?

Bob

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This a little more detail of what i want to do
Mar 3, 2008 6:00AM PST

I am trying to have a live dj play music and able to take request from my visitors at my site and I dont really see anything that will let me do that

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Then SHOUTCAST.
Mar 3, 2008 6:14AM PST

Done.

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Licensing....
Apr 16, 2008 4:39AM PDT

Have you checked on the legality of doing this? Familiar with the royalties structure for playing music on the "air"?

In a previous job I had some contact with radio stations and they had to address the issues of how many people were listening and some started then stopped because folks that did the commercials were complaining about not getting compensated for the larger market.

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Thanks
Apr 16, 2008 4:45AM PDT

No actually I didnt I intend to only air mixed and remixed music and original content from people just coming out. But Im not sure of the legality of that either. thanks for the input I dont expect my site grow into something huge either so for the mean time I think I should be fine.