What I want to do is broadcast live audio to the internet and I’m looking for some suggestions on how to do that. Before when I had my old laptop I could use Ustream with the laptop’s built in soundcard and it worked perfectly. But now I’ve got a new laptop with a built in webcam and I can’t select the laptop’s soundcard (or my audio 2) as an option. I’ve tried disabling the webcam but nothing works.
So I’m looking for an alternative way to broadcast a live audio stream from either my Audio 2 (preferably) or the laptop’s soundcard. Can someone point me in the right direction on what to use to make this work?
What it does is that it splits the output 2 ways (I am pretty sure it makes it left and right). From one of those, plug in te cable you normally put into the master out. On the one, you need to buy a cable that is xlr/1.8 (<–size of audio in jack for laptops) male/male. Hook that up into your audio-in and you should be good to go.
Can’t help you if you’re running Windows, but in overview…
If you’ve got a Mac, you can use SoundFlower to “re-route” your system’s audio. I’ve managed to get Traktor’s Master out to Ustream’s audio feed while sacrificing the ability to get a dedicated Master out; with this setup, the Master goes to the headphones only.
Geting a video feed with that is trickier. If you’re out of video options from your laptop (it’s more fun to see the decks than stare at the DJ online), theoretically, you can Ustream from a 2nd video source (and account) and overlay that feed on top of the audio broadcast picture-in-picture style. The main problem with this however is latency.
Back to audio…
Again, if you’re on a Mac, you could probably use Nicecast ($40) which streams to mp3 format, which means it’s widely compatible with media players like iTunes, Winamp, VLC, etc. I haven’t used it in two years, to be honest, but it looks like the devs extended the noise-free trial limit up to an hour before they gimp the audio stream.
I already try a lot of different settings.
I have a laptop with windows 7 64bits, hercules deejay trim 4&6 as a soundcard and DJ Control Steel.
If I choose the deejay trim on ustream audio settings I got no sound at all, only chance is choosing the onboard soundcard (IDT HD) Mic, I got sound, but it’s like if people were listening in the bathroom, and with a lot of noise. Really really bad.
Already tried in a different lap with realtek onboard drivers but it’s pretty the same.
I really cant’ figure how to fix this. Anyone can give me a clue please???
Ok, sorry if I’m missing something but, can I use winamp + Shoutcast DSP for streaming on USTREAM??? Because on ustream I just need to login and fill the password while on Shoutcast DSP I need to fill the address and port.
Ok JesC, I already have heard something about that before, if you don’t mind and regarding to my setup can you help me telling me o how I do that???
Thanks in advance.
Hey I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but last week, my friend’s laptop (which also uses IDT HD audio codecs) had its drivers automatically updated, one of them being the IDT HD audio codec.
Long story short, his audio suddenly stopped working, and I spend a couple hours trying to figure out what the problem was… well it turns out that right around when his computer auto-updated his audio codec driver (IDT HD audio), his sound crapped out on him.
I did some more digging and found that the IDT HD audio codec (the one that was recently updated like early this month) had TONS off issues with people having their laptops suddenly stop playing sound etc.
What I am trying to get at is you should try to rollback to an earlier version of the audio driver, it might work!
