- Sending audio from mixer into nicecast .dll#
- Sending audio from mixer into nicecast install#
- Sending audio from mixer into nicecast archive#
- Sending audio from mixer into nicecast pro#
Sending audio from mixer into nicecast install#
You could install one on your own computer, or you could buy server space somewhere and install it there. This was causing Edcast to install without the lame encoder, which was creating problems later.įinally, the Icecast server itself. I needed to do this because I needed administrator access to save the files in this location I couldn't just save them there directly from 7-zip during the install process. Then I used the Windows file manager to copy them from the temporary location to the Winamp base directory (specifically, C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp ).
Sending audio from mixer into nicecast .dll#
dll files (specifically, lame_enc.dll and libfaac.dll) to a temporary location (actually, just my home directory).
Sending audio from mixer into nicecast archive#
Then I opened the archive with 7-zip and saved the. First, I downloaded the zip files from the sources provided. Now what I found was that I had to do this as a two-step process. During the install, though, it will ask you to download and install the LAME and ACC. In the mean time: it works now, until somebody 'upgrades' and breaks things. There's enough support out there for both Winamp and Icecast that this vital link will be retained one way or another, I think. A bunch of sites still refer to the no-longer useful Oddsock link, but I found it here, on the Elite Radios site. This is a bit tricky since the creator has discontinued support for Edcast and has moved on to other things. Next, you need to download the Edcast plugin for Winamp.
You don't need to do anything special with Winamp.
Sending audio from mixer into nicecast pro#
You don't need the pro version (though, honestly, if I'm going to do this sort of thing regularly in the future, I'll buy the pro, just because). So, the next step is to download and install the WinAmp player. Now what you want to do is to set up your system to send that audio to the radio station. Select the file you have just downloaded in the file selection window. dll directly from here and save it to your Audacity directory. Alternatively, when you get to this point, just download the. Here are the instructions in the Audacity wiki. But note that, in order to do this, you'll need to download a separate plug-in called LAME. You can also save the Audacity recording in MP3. If you're not able to record the sound in Audacity, you need to stop here and figure this part out, because if it doesn't work in Audacity, it work work on radio. You should hear the YouTube audio and your voice. Stop the recording (press the button with the black square) and play it back. You should again see the wave-form appear again. Now stop YouTube and try speaking through your microphone. You should see the wave-form in the Audacity display indicate that you're recording audio. Test it out by clicking OK, clicking on the 'record' button (the red circle) and then playing a sound in YouTube. Now, audacity will record any system sound. In the pop-up menu that appears, check the box titled 'show disabled devices' and 'show disconnected devices'. To do this, highlight one of the microphone selections, and then right-click on it. If you're lucky, you'll see the 'stereo mix' option. You should see a selection for your microphone input. This will bring up the recording devices screen.
There's a few steps to this.įirst, open the Windows Recording Devices screen (my screenshots are for Windows 7 but Vista is very similar) by right-clicking on the speaker icon and selecting 'recording devices' (you can also get to it via the Control Panel). Next, I set up my computer so the default sound application was the Windows stereo mixer. I've been trying for a long time to make this work with my USB microphone, and it just doesn't work. Here's what I did.įirst, I went out and bought a new headset with speaker and microphone plugs that plug right into the sound card (specifically, a Plantronics Audio. Today I ran a test on Radio #ds106 to see whether I could stream a live Skype conversation over internet radio.