WinAmp is a popular freeware media player for Windows and Android that allows users to play various media formats. It is known for its graphical visualizations and playlist features. WinAmp was created by American programmer Justin Frankel and Russian programmer Dmitry Boldyrev.
SHOUTcast is software that allows digital audio and video content to be streamed over the internet, enabling the creation of internet radio stations. It uses a client-server model where audio/video data is sent between clients and servers using HTTP. SHOUTcast is commonly used to create and listen to internet radio broadcasts.
The SHOUTcast streaming process involves a radio presenter's voice being converted to a digital file by a computer, then
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WinAmp is a popular freeware media player for Windows and Android that allows users to play various media formats. It is known for its graphical visualizations and playlist features. WinAmp was created by American programmer Justin Frankel and Russian programmer Dmitry Boldyrev.
SHOUTcast is software that allows digital audio and video content to be streamed over the internet, enabling the creation of internet radio stations. It uses a client-server model where audio/video data is sent between clients and servers using HTTP. SHOUTcast is commonly used to create and listen to internet radio broadcasts.
The SHOUTcast streaming process involves a radio presenter's voice being converted to a digital file by a computer, then
WinAmp is a popular freeware media player for Windows and Android that allows users to play various media formats. It is known for its graphical visualizations and playlist features. WinAmp was created by American programmer Justin Frankel and Russian programmer Dmitry Boldyrev.
SHOUTcast is software that allows digital audio and video content to be streamed over the internet, enabling the creation of internet radio stations. It uses a client-server model where audio/video data is sent between clients and servers using HTTP. SHOUTcast is commonly used to create and listen to internet radio broadcasts.
The SHOUTcast streaming process involves a radio presenter's voice being converted to a digital file by a computer, then
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WinAmp is a popular freeware media player for Windows and Android that allows users to play various media formats. It is known for its graphical visualizations and playlist features. WinAmp was created by American programmer Justin Frankel and Russian programmer Dmitry Boldyrev.
SHOUTcast is software that allows digital audio and video content to be streamed over the internet, enabling the creation of internet radio stations. It uses a client-server model where audio/video data is sent between clients and servers using HTTP. SHOUTcast is commonly used to create and listen to internet radio broadcasts.
The SHOUTcast streaming process involves a radio presenter's voice being converted to a digital file by a computer, then
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What is WinAmp?
Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features. Winamp was developed by American programmer Justin Frankel and Russian programmer Dmitry Boldyrev, and its popularity grew quickly, along with the developing trend of MP3 file-sharing.
What is ShoutCast ? SHOUTcast is cross-platform proprietary software for streaming media over the Internet. The software, developed by Nullsoft (purchased by AOL on June 1, 1999), allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio "stations". SHOUTcast Radio is a related website which provides a directory of SHOUTcast stations. Software design The SHOUTcast software uses a clientserver model, with each component communicating via a network protocol that intermingles audio or video data with metadata such as song titles and the station name. It uses HTTP as a transport protocol. Although multicast was planned, it was never developed. SHOUTcast servers and clients are available for FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Solaris. Client-only versions exist for Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS (iPad, iPhone), Palm OS and webOS (Radio Hibiki), PlayStation Portable, Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 and UIQ,[1] Nintendo DS (DSOrganize) and Wii. The output format is supported by multiple clients, including Nullsoft's own Winamp, and Amarok, Exaile, foobar2000, iTunes, Songbird, Totem, XMMS, and Zinf. If the client does not support the SHOUTcast protocol, then the SHOUTcast server sends the stream without the metadata thus allowing it to be heard/viewed in clients like Windows Media Player. SHOUTcast servers are usually linked to by means of playlist files, which are small text files (usually with extensions .pls or .m3u) that contain the URL of the SHOUTcast server. When that URL is visited in a Web browser which
identifies itself as Mozilla-compatible (as most do), the server will return a generated SHOUTcast server info/status page, rather than streaming audio. Uses The most common use of SHOUTcast is for creating or listening to Internet audio broadcasts; however, video streams exist as well. Some traditional radio stations use SHOUTcast to extend their presence onto the Web.
How does ShoutCast work? 1. A radio presenter on the sending end talks into a microphone. 2. A computer changes the input signal from the radio presenters voice from analogue to a digital file type to it can be understood by computers . 3. WinAmp opens the inputted digital file as a filestream. 4. WinAmp creates an upload stream to the SHOUTcast media server. 5. The SHOUTcast server broadcasts the audio stream to all client computers with the embedded audio control in their web browser. 6. The clients web browser receives a constant stream from the SHOUTcast streaming server, and the audio is played as output from the clients speakers until the connection with the server is terminated.
