Easiest Way to set up your Own Radio Station
Remember, Internet has many ears: some are good, some are bad. Before you start with the idea of your own station, take care of copy right issues and learn this easy way of setting up your own radio station as follows.
Step 1: Decide the model (amateur or Professional) which one will suit you the best as money making in existing scenario is difficult if you are thinking internet based radio station .
Step 2: If you have decided for commercial way of making radio station do some plain analytics of reliable data streaming hosting companies , who specializes in video streaming and hosting . There days cloud services are also worth considering in case you scale up suddenly in view of sudden popularity of Radio Station.
If you have decided for amateur or personal way of making radio on web here are some more tips to share our own music collection with your near ones and dear ones .The best option will be host it on your own machine with good bandwidth will do, But you may face one issue, you need have a static IP address to run your own radio station. Therefore, I suggest you to learn about? DynDNS ? This service will allow you point a hostname to the dynamic or static IP address or URL.
Step 3: Yes, now you need playlist now! , You can create with any of following:
1. Windows Media Player.
2. ITunes
3. WinAmp.
Step 4: Choose one the following for making universally acceptable playlist format
a) Extended m3U
b) XSPF (Pronounced as spiff)
c) PLS.
Step 5: Validate your playlist with validation tools like xspl.org/validation
Step 6: Finally, download following for streaming your music collection and DIY.
1. IceCast
2. Shoutcast Broadcasting Tools
3. Simple Cast.
4. SAM cast
5. iRadeo
6. Peer cast