How do i turn my system into a rock station/radio

[nikhmail]

We have aroun 40 systems in our LAN.
I want to host a radio on my system for others.
Please tell me which server should i use

[alib_i]

i have a exhaustive tutorial here,

Complete Guide to Audio Streaming in LAN

i think we can continue the discussion there

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alibi

[nikhmail]

Thankyou very much for such a cool guide.


Is it possible to allow the client/listener to choose his song.

We have such server in our college. we can choose from various categorized playlists.

[alib_i]

actually yes.
there is something called a Song Requester Plugin which displays the whole current playlist of winamp on a webserver ( created by plugin itself ) and users can enqueue songs of their choice. If nobody's enqueuing songs, then the songs will carry on playing from playlist just like normal.
URL: http://www.oddsock.org/tools/gen_songrequester/

( if you want a more comprehensive system, I made a set of php scripts for that purpose too, but its too complicated, you will need a php enabled http server and "Do something" & "httpq" plugins for winamp. only advantage is that it looks prettier and has better shuffle than winamp's shuffle. )

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alibi

[nikhmail]

Hey, I am already running a http server on my system with php and mysql installed. I do have some knowledge about php.

It will be great if you gave me those scripts

[alib_i]

awesome .. i though my scripts are useles .. but i think somebody may find it useful ..
gimme your email id .. i'll mail it you.

in that time .. get Do Something plugin and httpq v3.0 plugin.

I'll try to explain what I do with my php scripts :
httpq plugin allows you to take total control of winamp through a webserver it creates. you can access it thourgh php or asp or javascript .. anything. But there is no "jump to file" type of command. So I made a different kind of system .. in which you are given an option to play any file from a saved playlist. (no need of mysql etc). You can enqueue songs you like and the total list of enqueued songs are visible to everyone.

A screenshot


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alibi