Hosting companies: I need a HOST for streaming audio
 

- Live AND recorded audio

- All talk, so it can be compressed, maybe 48 bitrate

What kind of hardware expense and monthly bandwidth expense am I looking at for the following numbers of listeners: 500, 1000, 3000, 10,000

Anyone else doing streaming audio?

nut spot

i can get ya $27 a meg...& the techs who set the stuff up are pretty much experts in streaming audio/shoutcast servers

I would recommend shoutcast as the streaming server solution

The number of listeners * bit rate = traffic / second

At 500 listeners max for a station you can expect about 200 connected throughout the day if your station is popular

200 * 48kbps = 9.6Mbps -- this would require roughly a 10Mbps server

Scale the # of listeners up and you'll see how much bandwidth you would require.

We can guide you along and help you setup everything, ICQ: 4930562 and it would run about $550/month for the example quoted above

Can you have a tech email me a ballpark estimate for the numbers of listeners in my original post? Let's say each amount means that many listeners 24 hours a day... thanks!

Thanks for this info!

use shoutcast, best option and all major media players stream mp3

Is "SHOUTCast" simply a protocol for streaming data, or does it have any production side software for doing live broadcasts? I'm trying to get a feel for how I would integrate my studio in location A with my server in location B.

TIA Jace

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Thanks for the extensive info! Now, what do I need for

1) 100 listeners per hour
2) 300
4) 1000
5) 5000

for bitrates 24, 48, 96, 128?

Thank you.

Hint: the hosting companies that answer these questions have the best chance of getting my business.

hey spentrent,

Brewing a quote and an answers section to your questions to be emailed.

I also added you to ICQ, looking forward to chatting once the email and quote are sent out.

Good luck on your search.

The formula is as follows:
bit rate X # of listeners / 1000 = # of megabits / sec
Then to get the number of MB transfer you use the following forumula
( bit rate / 8 ) x # of listeners x 60 secs x 60 min = # of MegaBytes transferred per hour

For Example:
24kbps X 100 listeners = 2.4mbps or roughly 10MB of transfer per hour
128kbps X 100 listeners = 12.8mbps or 5.7GB of transfer per hour

24kbps X 5000 listeners = 120mbps or 54GB of transfer per hour
128kbps x 5000 listeners = 640mbps or 288GB of transfer per hour

To give you a rough idea, 10mbps is about $550
100mbps is about $4000

Now mbps allows you transfer this at full speed for the ENTIRE month with that price, and GB pricing starts at about $0.40/GB and goes down to about $0.15/GB


*In regards to your other question with having a server in 1 location and your computer in another, its really quite simple. You install winamp and configure it to send to a shoutcast server by using a simple plugin and pointing it to the IP address. Then winamp can be used to either play pre-recorded material or use line in to relay whatever is being played/heard to your server and then out to the rest of the world. Best of all shoutcast is free!

Email coming shortly.

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Thanks for breaking this down for me!

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