Running your own shoutcast server / streaming using XP Prof & IIS

Contributed by Jimmy Selix  
Tagged: HTML  

This is a quick guide on how to setup your own winamp/shoutcast server on windows xp prof using IIS5.0

Requirements: Windows XP Professional, Winamp 3.0 or higher, Highspeed always-connected internet connection, Basic Networking Skills

This recipe is for all you music lovers out there.

How to setup your own winamp/shoutcast server using Windows XP Prof

Pre-requisites:
1. Windows XP Professional installed
2. Connected to the internet via Highspeed internet connection
3. IIS Services installed
if not, here is how:
-Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components.
-Go to the Internet Information Services and click Details, Now choose the World Wide Web Service (the required components will be checked automatically, i’d check the documentation option too!)
and Click OK and let XP install IIS.
4. Basic Networking Skills (know how to setup forward ports in router if needed)

To manage IIS / Webserver, Right Click My Computer > Manage
Go to the Bottom, and you’ll see the Internet Information Services, your webserver controls will be there.
Setup a basic homepage if you want, not required though.

5. Once you have a webserver running. Find out your IP address and see if you can ping it from another computer outside of your network, if so, your live to the web!

If not, you might need to configure your router to open up/forward ports. We will be using port 8080 for the shoutcast stream.

Shoutcast Installation and Setup:
1. Go to the http://www.shoutcast.com/download/serve.phtml and download the SHOUTcast WIN32 Console/GUI server v1.9.42.
2. Open the installation file and install it.
3. Next, download the Shoutcast DJ DSP tool http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads/shoutcast-dsp-1-8-2b-windows.exe and install it.
4. Next, we need to edit the shoutcast server configuration.
Go to your Start Menu > Programs > Shoutcast DNAS > Edit Shoutcast DNAS Settings
A text file will open, this the config file for the server.

Main things to worry about:

MaxUsers=XX – Maximum number of users
Password=XX -MUST BE SET! we will need this for the Winamp Shoutcast Console
PortBase=8080 (port that shoutcast stream will use, default is 8080, i leave it at that)

The other options are optional.

Once you set your options, save the file.

5. Now open winamp.
Go to Preferences
Then go to the Plugins : DSP/Effect
Click the Nullsoft SHOUTcast Source DSP plugin.

Once you do, you’ll get a new SHOUTcast Source box.
Go to the Output Tab.
Make sure the Password is the same as the one we set in the server configuration in step 4. Also the port is the same too!.

If you have more than one pc running a server, put in the local IP address of the computer in Address, otherwise leave it as is.

Next, go to the Encoder Tab, choose the type you want, (MP3 Encoder), and the settings. I recommend 128kbps, 44,100kHz, Stereo (i have 1.5mbs DSL)

Running your SHOUTcast station
1. Start the SHOUTcast server
Start Menu > Programs > ShoutCase DNAS > Shoutcast DNAS (GUI)
A command box with status and info will show up now.

2, Open up winamp, and if the Shoutcast Source box does not open with winamp, go into winamps Preferences > Plugins : DSP/Effects and make sure the SHoutcast DSP plugin is highlighted.

3. Load up some songs and play them. To listen to your station from a different location, just open up a web browser and put in your ip address and :8080
(ie. www.mywebserver:8080 or 102.332.4.2:8080 )
once you do, you’ll be brought to the your shoutcast page and can listen to your station or see what is playing and so on.

Peace
seamonkey420