Broadcasting w. Traktor Pro

[Bassline Brine]

I literally just spent 5 minutes and got nicecast working on my macbook pro. Stupid simple program, and does exactly what you were looking for I believe. Something I've been planning on looking into as well, but just haven't gotten around to yet.

Enjoyable.

[Afterhour Ali]

Nicecast is a great program.

If you want to attach song-metadata (artist, title) to your Nicecast-stream use my Traktor Scrobbler.

www.ali.dj/traktor-scrobbler

[TommyBassTone]

Native instruments in all there wisdom embedded a dedicated broadcast client into Traktor

whats good for some (germans) isn't always best for others unfortunately there isnt alot you can do about inside traktor itself

so the options your left with are.

A) Use Icecast! Icecast is probably the best FREE server software for streaming media.
Yes it takes a buttload of time to setup and perfect but the rewards are definitely worth the time it takes to set up.
especially if your hosting your own content on your own servers

Icecast can be used directly by compiling the source on a mac or downloading the setup.exe for windows
or by using a third party Icecast application

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/

Nicecast is very good.

B) you can always stream everything from your audio outputs directly to a live stream site like Ustream.com or Justin.tv.

for this on a mac you'll need SoundFlower(Audio) and Camtwist(Video)
on Pc im sure there are similar apps

[Sherlock Ohms]

A) Use Icecast! Icecast is probably the best FREE server software for streaming media.
Yes it takes a buttload of time to setup and perfect but the rewards are definitely worth the time it takes to set up.
especially if your hosting your own content on your own servers

Icecast can be used directly by compiling the source on a mac or downloading the setup.exe for windows
or by using a third party Icecast application

tbh - I found icecast to be a heap of shit. Tried using it in Traktor 3 to no avail, largely as I needed to reencode on the fly from .ogg to .mp3 as 90% of the internet radio world uses the shoutcast protocol ...

[xtianw]

in this day and age, pretty much everyones computer can support both protocals and do already.

the bigger challenge you run into is bandwidth. home connections really arent setup to stream to more than a few listeners. you really need an icecast host server if you want to do something pretty regular. you can generally find icecast servers for rent for about 15 bucks a month on average for about a 100 listener stream at 192k per stream

[Prisoneer]

Hey people Im broadcasting with IceCast... I have 1 question.. How can I hide the titles of the tracks ?

[Afterhour Ali]

Should be possible in the Icecast-settings.

[Prisoneer]

This is the default IceCast config file... I dont see the option to hide the track titles...

<!-- This config file contains a minimal set of configurable parameters,
     and mostly just contains the things you need to change.  We created
     this for those who got scared away from the rather large and heavily
     commented icecast.xml.dist file. -->
<icecast>
    <limits>
        <sources>2</sources>
    </limits>
    <authentication>
        <source-password>hackme</source-password>
        <relay-password>hackme</relay-password>
        <admin-user>admin</admin-user>
        <admin-password>hackme</admin-password>
    </authentication>

    <hostname>localhost</hostname>
    <listen-socket>
        <port>8001</port>
    </listen-socket>
    <fileserve>1</fileserve>
    <paths>
        <logdir>./logs</logdir>
        <webroot>./web</webroot>
        <adminroot>./admin</adminroot>
        <alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>
    </paths>
    <logging>
        <accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
        <errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
      	<loglevel>3</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
    </logging>
</icecast>

When I googled about this problem.. I found out that

if you are talking about mp3 then set <mp3-metadata-interval> to 0

karl.

http://www.icecast.org/docs/icecast-...ile.html#mount

And this link shows this

    <mount>
        <mount-name>/example-complex.ogg</mount-name>
        <username>othersource</username>
        <password>hackmemore</password>
        <max-listeners>1</max-listeners>
        <max-listener-duration>3600</max-listener-duration>
        <dump-file>/tmp/dump-example1.ogg</dump-file>
        <intro>/intro.ogg</intro>
        <fallback-mount>/example2.ogg</fallback-mount>
        <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
        <fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
        <public>1</public>
        <stream-name>My audio stream</stream-name>
        <stream-description>My audio description</stream-description>
        <stream-url>http://some.place.com</stream-url>
        <genre>classical</genre>
        <bitrate>64</bitrate>
        <type>application/ogg</type>
        <subtype>vorbis</subtype>
        <hidden>1</hidden>
        <burst-size>65536</burst-size>
        <mp3-metadata-interval>4096</mp3-metadata-interval>
        <authentication type="htpasswd">
                <option name="filename" value="myauth"/>
                <option name="allow_duplicate_users" value="0"/>
        </authentication>
        <on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/source-start</on-connect>
        <on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/source-end</on-disconnect>
    </mount>

And I have no idea what to do with it

[Afterhour Ali]

You could try this setting:

<mp3-metadata-interval>4096</mp3-metadata-interval>

and set it to a very big value. I'm not sure whether this works though.

Another way would be transcoding the stream to shoutcast. You loose the metadata this way as well.

[Prisoneer]

I have to add this into the default config file ? I dont understand...