We supply a variety of services utilising shoutcast and icecast servers ranging from smaller requirements for the home experimenter or beginning dj to large clustered servers to enable as many listeners as you desire.

All you need to stream music is the excellent media player winamp by nullsoft and the shoutcast dsp plugin(oddcast dsp for icecast) that sends what you play at home to our streaming server so that many people may tune in and listen. Armed with these tools you are ready to join in the internet radio community and broadcast for whoever you want to listen.

These streaming also support high quality video but it's not for the faint hearted as the technology is still in it's development stages but there are many 3rd party programs that are available to ease the use of shoutcast and icecast.

Important features of shoutcast .... Cheaper pricing due to running on free operating systems such as linux Uses very common formats such as mp3 for streaming Windows media player, Winamp and many other players can tune into the streams Supports high quality low bandwidth AACplus encoding Very easy to stream audio, just like playing music in your winamp player

Each Shoutcast and Icecast server comes with a statistics webpage and an administartion webpage. The admin webpage lets you control who listens to your broadcast and for Icecast which stream(mount) they are listening to.

So what can you do with a mbit? See our graph below.

Prefer Windows Media streaming? Check out our Windows Streaming page.

Which format is the best? It depends on what bitrate and type of media you will be broadcasting. See our Streaming_Showcase to hear different formats at various bitrates. This may help you to compare the sound quality and choose a format to broadcast in.

The pricing for the shoutcast servers is based upon their bandwidth use. Current pricing is $13 per mbit.

Feel free to contact us for information or a free quote.