Why are there no good Shoutcast DJ / Streaming apps for Mac???

[FragTek]

It's just dumbfounding considering the fact that Mac's are the industry choice for A/V related tasks. It seems that online radio DJ'ing would be a big thing for Mac.

Before switching to Mac 100% I used to run SAM Broadcaster from Spacial Audio. I think any online DJ would agree that SAM is the best online DJ streaming software ever made. It incorporates absolutely everything.

Why doesn't someone make a SAM "clone" for Mac? I'd pay out the arse for it. I'm huge in to online broadcasting and Nicecast just doesn't cut it, it's WEAK.

Plz plz plz plz let someone make a good online streaming program for Mac...

/end rant.

Edit: Out of rage I just sent Spacial Audio a development request to release SAM Broadcast for Mac OS X Let's see what they say, haha.

 

[Skeeball236]

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[FragTek]

Have you tried Nicecast? ....you can try the FF demo.

Or, Quicktime Broadcaster?
...which is absolutely free, but really seems setup more for video.

Ahem... Quote from first post:

I'm huge in to online broadcasting and Nicecast just doesn't cut it, it's WEAK.

Quictime Broadcaster again is weakness.

 

[Skeeball236]

It's $40 what do you expect, I guess you need something outside of the "hobby" realm.

Like Megaseg?

Or Traktor?

 

[Natasha007]

Nicecast woes

I have a serious question:

Am I going to have to switch my radio station to a PC to get out of that hobby realm?? Nicecast jams on a regular basis and I just can't seem to figure out why...

Someone please give it to me straight!

Natasha

 

[Skeeball236]

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[Natasha007]

The sound isn't a problem, the program just 'freezes' up too often. It tends to do so when I'm away, as if it knows I'm out https://forums.macrumors.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

http://www.oh-la-la.nl

Natasha

 

[Skeeball236]

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[Natasha007]

Nice bits

No it freezes very randomly. That would have been too easy

My bit rate is 128 kbps and the radio is on line 24/7 except when it freezes and I'm not around to reboot it (remote desktop client can't help with that). I have my business at home so it's easy to keep tabs on it. But that darn thing freezes on Sunday when I'm out...

Why? The verdict is because I am pushing a G3 350 MHz to the limit. My only other option is my G3 400 MHz until I can afford a new mac.

The guys at Rogue Amoeba were very helpful, and yeah, the answer is get a better mac... or switch to a PC.

 

[Skeeball236]

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[Natasha007]

Thanks! That's what I'm trying to achieve

The beach isn't far from Amsterdam, but it's jammed packed and it's not France...

 

[Skeeball236]

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[crap freakboy]

stream now in my dock....supersmashinggreat!

 

[pgk2]

Mac based solutions

Spacial Audio is nice for what it does but you can't run live remotes easily. For broadcast solutions available on the mac see the following Apple page:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/tools/broadcasting.html

Backbone and Megaseg offer much more programming capabilities. Both support MP4 formats.

 

[PoetDemise]

MegaSeg looks great, but it doesnt look like it does streams. it looks like you need to run another app to do streaming for you.