DiY Online Radio Station on the Air in Minutes

Streaming Audio on the Internet is easier than most might think. In this short tutorial I will teach you how to have your own internet radio station up and running in minutes. This also includes people that want to stream their police scanners, cb radios and other communications online. You don't even have to own a website. The Software needed to do this is FREE!

Step 1: Get "Windows Media Encoder 9" and install it. It's free. Get it HERE

Step 2: Start Windows Media Encoder. When you start the encoder for the first time a window pops up with icons in it. SELECT "Broadcast a Live Event".

Step 3: It now shifts to "Device Options". Select your soundcard in the list if you have more than one. Leave it "(default audio device)" if you have just one soundcard.

Step 4: SELECT "Pull From The Encoder".

Step 5: Choose port or leave 8080. Leave it alone unless you have more than one encoder open for multiple streams.

Step 6: Next in the "Audio Tab" SELECT " FM Quality Audio(CBR). This is selecting the bitrate. Higher bitrate has better CD like true sound but sucks more internet. if the bitrate is too high your listeners with slow dsl internet may have problems. For general public use select 37-48kbps stereo with 44khz. If you are just streaming for your own listening elsewhere, select a higher bitrate untul you can't tell the difference in quality.

Step 7: Skip the "Archive File" thing. Now it asks you to fill in the "Display Information". This is the text that is displayed on the media player when people listen. Click next then click Finish.

Step 8: Now, at the top of the encoder select "Properties" to the left of the Play button. Select the "Sources" tab at the top left. Now in the near middle of that page SELECT "Configure". Now on that little window that pops up SELECT "Pin Line. The pin line is where you select what you are streaming. If you want people on the web to hear what you hear on your computer speakers, select "Stereo Mixer Input". If you want people to hear what is on a police scanner or cb you have plugged into mic or line in, select either of those. After you select what "Pin Line" input you are streaming make sure "Enable" is ckecked under the level control. Press ok.

Step 9: Press play to start encoding. Start some music or whatever. Notice how the level meters on the right side of the encoder go up and down with the music or sound. Adjust your level control where we just were in the Properties/Sources/Pin Line section so the loudest noise makes the meter go in the yellow and maybe red on rare loud bursts only.

Step 10: The media address to your live streaming audio is to be mms://your.ip.add.ress:8080 If you do not know your IP then go to whatismyip.com to see. Put that link in forums, emails or on these web pages where you want people to listen to your stream.

Putting your MEDIA PLAYER with your streaming audio on blogs, webpages, myspace...I was going to continue explaining how to do this but, I know a better way to assit you. This page will tell you all you need to know. HERE

REMEMBER!!! If you are going through a router, you have to open port 8080 in the "port forwarding" / "port mapping" section of your router. This includes wireless routers or those non wireless. You have to have your own internet connection to stream. The neighbors free wireless won't work for this unless they open port 8080 in the router for you. This will not work at all unless 8080 is open on the router if you are behind one. Your IP is not 192.168.0.1 or simular. That is your local IP because you are behind a router. That's only an in house IP your other computers on the same connection can see for example. This port forwarding setting on the router opens that port so people on the web can access the stream not directly connected to the cable modem, for example.

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