Setting up internet radio on FreeBSD

[Chaotic42]

Anyone have any experience? I'm thinking about doing it, because I'm interested in the idea. I work at a regular radio station, and I think it would be neat to play some music on the internet. I would atleast want to be able to broadcast to our local network. I don't know if I'd go over the actual internet, because my connection sucks so bad.

Edit: I chose Off Topic for this, because it's kind of weird.

 

[Mucman]

See my sig... FreeBSD server and fluid streaming software (the webpage was done by me though )

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Mucman
See my sig... FreeBSD server and fluid streaming software (the webpage was done by me though )

Cool. You've got a funky mix going on!

How much bandwidth does it use?

 

[Mucman]

Hehe... I wrote a perl script that goes through my mp3 collection and randomly pulls 50 songs from it. It re-encodes them to
96bits and then uploads them to my server... on the server is a script that issues the new playlist and updates the include that
is used in that web-page . It's not an install and forget it type of ordeal .

Since no one really listens to it, I don't do much bandwidth . People don't seem to like Slayer following Neil Diamond .

I use daemontools to launch fluid... it's pretty stable, but I need to restart it every day because the cpu usage of fluid
gradually increases as time goes on.

I'm working on a new webpage for it and some new features...

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Mucman
Hehe... I wrote a perl script that goes through my mp3 collection and randomly pulls 50 songs from it. It re-encodes them to
96bits and then uploads them to my server... on the server is a script that issues the new playlist and updates the include that
is used in that web-page . It's not an install and forget it type of ordeal .

Since no one really listens to it, I don't do much bandwidth . People don't seem to like Slayer following Neil Diamond .

I use daemontools to launch fluid... it's pretty stable, but I need to restart it every day because the cpu usage of fluid
gradually increases as time goes on.

I'm working on a new webpage for it and some new features...

Cool. I'm curious about the bandwidth, because I average 77Kbps up. I don't know if downsampling them to 64Kbps would even be worth it.

 

[Mucman]

<brag>I got an OC-3 connection that I don't have to pay for, so I don't worry about it </brag>