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Create an internet radio station with shoutcast
Authored by: bluehz on Aug 07, '03 07:46:32PM

I really like MALTX and would prefer to use a real time playlist manager like MALTX, but in my experience with it... for one thing it will suck the life dry out of a CPU when broadcasting (mainly because you do downsampling via MaltX I believe (as opposed to the Shoutcast Transcoder (sc_trans) that downsamples via the CLI and lame mp3 encoder. Still a bit hefty on the ol CPU... but doesn't cause the stream to skip while encoding. Also - don't know what causes it - but MaltX will crash on a fairly frequent basis. PRob hitting some bad MP3 or something, but with a collection of 53k mp3's I am bound to have a few bad ones... When MaltX crashes... you get dead air.

So far the only reliable, cpu friendly solution I have found is using the shoutcast server (sc_server) and the shoutcast trasncoder (sc_trans).



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