KenA

Hi At a guess, it will replace the existing player, you will need a link on the website that points to the Broadwave stream within your local network (perhaps on the web server itself). You're right in saying that it will only serve up the audio as the users need it. The only concern re bandwidth is that each additional user will require additional bandwidth from your website. But if there are only a few users, it's not worth setting up something like shoutcast where you only have one stream from your server to the shoutcast server.

1. yes, it has to be on. 2. probably, but I don't fully understand the question. I have used a laptop running Broadwave at a remote location (e.g. OB) and picked up the stream at the studio for retransmission.

Hi, First of all, make sure you can access the stream from another PC on the same local network. You will need to access it using the local IP address of the PC running broadwave. If you can't, then look at the firewall on that PC. When you can access the stream locally, then try to access it using your public IP address, and sort out your router settings (NAT port redirection, etc). Have a look at responses to other posts to get a list of things to check.

Hi, I don't use a MAC, but I did initially have some difficulties with some media players with Windows. I only use the live stream, but found that if you use the URL http :// your ip : your port / broadwave.mp3 it works a treat for that.

Hi Greg, If you can successfully stream saved MP3 files, then you are halfway there. By the way, I would not run it with the firewall disabled, you should open the correct port. I've posted elsewhere on this forum about it. The "live" streaming part depends on the source selected. Use the Options button and Live tab and edit the source. Open the Open Volume Control button to select the source. In XP, this opens the Recording Properties of the sound mixer, and then you select a source from there. You might have options such as "line in" for the line in audio connection, "Mic" for the PC soundcard's mic connection, and "wave mix" or Stereo mix" which streams out any audio being generated by a different audio program, such as winamp or a radio automation program.

Hello I'm not sure whether this is possible with Broadwave - others might correct me. I use Broadwave in conjunction with radio automation software - for example, the free program ZaraRadio. Zara will manage the music / playlist (and a lot more), whereas Broadwave manages the streaming. The "live" streaming source can be selected using Windows sound mixer's Recording Properties (Options / properties / recording) - select "line-in" to stream live sound from an audio source, or in the case where you use zara or similar, select "stereo mix" or similar channel name in the mixer properties.

NO NO NO!! - NEVER disable your firewall, except temporarily just to test whether traffic is being blocked or not. See my reply here: http://nch.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=10367

Aaargh - don't turn the firewall off, that will leave your PC unprotected. You should just enable traffic on the correct port number. First of all, look at the config of Broadwave to find out which port number it is configured to use. Some people use 85 or 88, I use a different one altogether. Then, open that port on the PC running Broadwave. If it's Windows Firewall, you should open that and use Add Program or Add Port to make sure the correct port number is used. You should now be able to connect from another PC on your local network, using your local IP address of the PC running Broadwave. Once this works, configure the Router's firewall. You need to set up Port Forwarding, to define the port number being used, and also to which internal address the router should send connection requests from the outside world. The option might be called NAT setup. Some routers also allow the external port number to be different from the internal port number, but that's not essential, the same number will usually do. Now, you should try to connect from an external address, using your External IP address and the External port number.

Hi Louie Broadwave provides the streaming server. Your website will need a link which points to the IP address of the PC running broadwave and the correct port. Once you have installed broadwave, click on the Connect icon and it will give an example. You can use it to serve up a pre-recorded mp3 file, or you can use it to stream live audio. The live audio can be either originated elsewhere and fed into the PC's Line-In (select with Windows audio Recording Properties "line-in" selected), or it can be originated on the same PC using radio station software - for example using ZaraRadio (there's a free version, see www.zararadio.com), and in this case, select "stereo mix" or "wave out mix" or similar (the name depends on your soundcard).

Yes, this should be possible. If the sound originates on PC #1, you run Broadwave on that one. With Windows sound mixer "Recording properties" you select Line-In assuming that the audio is being fed in there. Then on PC #2 you use Winamp or similar client to listen to the stream from PC #1. On PC #2 you also run Broadwave. On "Recording properties" select "wave out mix" or Stereo mix" (depending on your sound driver). The "listening public" will then connect to PC #2 to hear the stream.

Hi, It needs only the Broadwave program, no other servers. The clients connect directly to the server/PC running Broadwave. I use it to relay a point-to-point stream. It can relay any mp3 file which you have provided in the designated folder on your PC, or can relay the live sound from the soundcard. If you go to sound options, recording settings, you can select either the line-in or the software sound mixer output for Broadwave to use as the live stream. I use both on different systems. In the case where you use the mixer output, I use a radio automation program called Zara Radio to schedule the programme.

Hi there, I'm new to this forum, so please bear with me! I'm experimenting with Broadwave, and have set it up to stream from my line input. I'm then using a different PC on my local network to listen to the stream. I can listen perfectly well using Windows Media Player, but if I try to use Winamp, an error message flashes up but disappears before I can read it, and there's no stream. This is the same regardless of whether I'm streaming a live input of a saved mp3 file. I can use both Winamp & WMP to listen to a stream from a Barix InStreamer (a physical device which performs a similar function to Broadwave), and that works great. It's just that I want to use Winamp to listen to the Broadwave stream. The Winamp version is 5.531 Any suggestions? Thanks Ken