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So, I've decided, "hey, I want to start up my old radio station!"...

Well, I am using winamp as the player, and I have the shoutcast plugins, and server installed. ALL THE HARD WORK IS DONE. biggrin

But now, most people would use like listen2myradio.com to host, but i HATE that... It sucks, it's low quality, and had connection issues with many people. So here's my question.

What would I have to do to incorperate this radio station player into my website? ( www.socialaneurysm.com) and how hard would that be? I figured it shouldn't be too hard. I'm nifty with the HTML, and know what I'm doing in that. I'm not bad with servers, I just don't exactly understand what listen2myradio.com is doing... Is it just connecting and sending out my radio? or is it a specific thing that I have to use?

I would really like to put it on socialaneurysm.com because I own it, and it helps bring traffic, etc.
 
     
 
You could try Native Radio Player, there are several versions, I have linked them all along with the flash version requirements to utilize them. They also require php support on the server-side in order to function. Hope this helps.

http://blog.codingexpert.de/?p=31 <-- Version 1 Requires Flash 8
http://blog.codingexpert.de/?p=66 <-- Version 2 Requires Flash 10 ( I don't know why he switched back and forth with this one )
http://blog.codingexpert.de/?p=30 <-- Version 3 Requires Flash 8
http://blog.codingexpert.de/?p=44 <-- Version 4 Requires Flash 10 ( he changed the name to Shoutcast Flash Radio at this point. )

Version one is the easiest to configure. They all have different appearances, and he maintains them all individually. V1 is minimalistic, and they become increasingly complex in design with every version.
     
I'll look into these, thank you! But you wouldn't know if I could somehow create a player in adobe flash cs4, that would connect and play the streaming media from my winamp server? I've used it before, and I understand, fairly well, how the server connects. I just don't understand why I need a website to play my streaming media... Can't I do it myself?
 
     
 
you can host your self, if you have set your computer, and the network it is on, up to host.
     
Lol I just explained how I have it set up, I just don't know how to utilize the access of my website to play from my server. At this point, it can be explained simply as... How do I link my streaming radio server, to play on my website?
 
     
 
technically that would be the URL of your computer, aka the IP address, and a little add-on for the stream.
     
Yes, but what addon? What exactly would I put in the website to do this? From your information, what URL am I putting where? Do I just type it in the damn coding of my website? Sorry to flame a bit, but geez, I just explained that I don't know how, and your telling me, "Just do it."
 
     
 
add-on to the URL, not another program, it's been to long, and then I only helped him research the information.

if you have a dynamic IP, you need something to work as a fix, like no-ip
     
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Webside, what am I doing? If I'm not setting up a program, am I creating another page for my radio? or a different Dns domain? I'm extremely confused.
 
     
 
What port is your server running from?

What does someone have to type in to get it to play?

Such as, for Localhost (ONLY you can see it, and only on your computer) it would be 127.0.0.1:8000 if you used default settings. You then replace the 127.0.0.1 with the EXTERNAL IP address of your computer (the IP address websites see and other people can see, since you're the only one who can see anything on 127.0.0.1)
     
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Thank GOD You understand the exact point I'm at! Ok, I'm running port 8040 and right now I'm trying to figure out what I want my external to go to. So, I would like to use my web address~ http://www.socialaneurysm.com/ , and I have a vague idea on how to do that. I know no-ip just uses a dns domain to cloak your IP, so really I'm hosting with my IP, so I would put my external IP. Now, I think I can make a dns domain from my website that would do the same thing as no-ip, but I'm not sure.
 
     
 
I use 1and1, and I have the basic web package, and I can make a dns domain thing, I'm not sure if it has the same effect as no-ip. :0
     
Anyone else understand this?
 
     
 
Let me see if I got you correctly here, you want to point your domain to your radio server, probably not the main site, probably a subdomain like http://radio.yourdomain.tld/ ?

Here's what you do...

If your streaming server has a static ip

set up an A record in your dns settings *you might not have access to these, but look at the third option if you don't as that may still work for you* pointing to your radio servers ip address as RADIO.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. ( don't forget the trailing dot, unless you use a service like godaddy that does the entrys for you ) to do it correctly just copy your first a record, change the IP and add the subdomain to the beginning of it. * a cname won't work in this instance because cnames can't point to IP addresses *

If your IP is dynamic, go to dyndns.org and set up a free dynamic domain. Next add a CNAME into your dns records that points to the dynamic domain.

If you do not have access to your dns records, you may have a feature known is subdomain forwarding via your ISP. This works like a CNAME, in fact, in some cases it may even be done via a CNAME ( which is better ), however some servers do it via a .htaccess file... lets not worry too much about that just yet. Anyway, like in option two, this method will require a dyndns domain name for the server, and then just set up the subdomain redirect to the dyndns domain.

Your final option, which does not require any modification of dns records, if your on an apache server ( IIS supports this as well, but the method is unknown to me as I've never used it ). If your IP is static, you do not need a dyndns domain, if it is dynamic, you will need a dyndns domain ( or similar dynamic domain name service ) You will need to have modrewrite enabled on your server, and you basically use an .htaccess file to rewrite the url request information to point to your radio servers IP or dyndns domain. First create the subdomain, then in the root of the subdomains folder put a file named .htaccess with the following code --

rewriteEngine on
rewriteBase /
rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^radio.yourdomain.tld$
rewriteRule ^(.*) http://dyndnsdomain.or.computerip/$1 [L,R=301]


and blam, as long as mod_rewrite is enabled on the apache server, It should work.

Now your final last resort option is to talk to your domain/webserver ISP and get their support to do all the dirty work for you ( except the dyndns domain if you have a dynamic IP, you'll need to set that up on your own regardless )

Hope that's what you wanted and good luck.
     
This is exactly what I was looking for, and I'll go try this out. Thank you!

I'll report with feedback in about 3 or 4 hours.
 
     
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