To DJ on ANONRADIO

To become a DJ, first you must subscribe to the anonradio-l mailing list by sending an email to majordomo@sdf.org that says:

subscribe anonradio-l

Then, send a message to the list and introduce yourself. Tell us about the show you want to do, and request a time-slot — for the current schedule, just visit anonradio.net. When you are ready to schedule your show, email membership and you will be given a username, password, mountpoint and server name to stream your show to. Scheduled shows are automatically switched-in by the server.

Before getting your own show, you may like to try broadcasting during OpenMIC.

Streaming

There are a variety of tools that can be used to stream to aNONradio from a variety of operating systems.

Regardless of what software you use, please ensure that your outgoing stream conforms to the following specifications:

            Bit rate:    192 Kbps
         Sample Rate:    44.1 KHz
            Channels:    2 (stereo)
              Format:    mp3

liquidsoap

It is possible to stream a collection of audio files using liquidsoap:

$ liquidsoap 'output.icecast(%mp3, host="anonradio.net", port=8010,
user="YOURSDFUSERNAME", password="YOURICECASTPASSWORD",
mount="/YOURSDFUSERNAME", mksafe(playlist("/path/to/playlist.m3u")))'

playlist.m3u must then contain a list of these files. The above command must be terminated at the end of the show; if not, it will loop, resulting in weird behavior.

Mixxx

butt

"butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports SHOUTcast and Icecast and runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computer's Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server. Recording is also possible. It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files."

butt configuration

Click Settings, in Main click ADD under Server

                Name:    aNONradio
                Type:    IceCast
             Address:    anonradio.net
                Port:    8010
            Password:    your dj password
  IceCast mountpoint:    your sdf username
        IceCast user:    your sdf username

Click Save

in Main Click ADD under Stream Infos

                Name:    your show name 
         Description:    your show description
               Genre:    your show genre
		 URL:    http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio

Click Audio

        Audio Device:    mic, line input, etc
             Channel:    44100Hz
     Streaming Codec:    MP3
   Streaming Bitrate:    192k

Under Configuration click Save.
When you are ready to connect to your IceCast mountpoint and start streaming click the play icon

Nicecast

There is an SDF tutorial for setting-up Nicecast on Mac OS X with iTunes / Skype / whatever else, all with voice-over capability.

Ezstream

To stream during your timeslot or during openmic, create a playlist of your desired songs:

ls -d -1 /PATH/TO/YOUR/MUSIC/*.* >> playlist.m3u

Copy the default ezstream config to your home directory:

    mkdir ~/.ezstream
    cp /usr/share/doc/ezstream/examples/ezstream_mp3.xml ~/.ezstream/
  

Edit your newly copied config thusly:

      <ezstream>
        <url>http://anonradio.net:8010/YOUR_DJ_MOUNT_NAME</url>
        <sourceuser>YOUR_DJ_USER_NAME</sourceuser>
        <sourcepassword>YOUR_DJ_PASSWORD</sourcepassword>
        <format>MP3</format>
        <filename>/PATH/TO/YOUR/playlist.m3u</filename>
        <svrinfobitrate>192</svrinfobitrate>
        <svrinfosamplerate>44100</svrinfosamplerate>
        <stream_once>1</stream_once>
      </ezstream>
  

And start your stream with this command:

ezstream -c ~/.ezstream/ezstream_mp3.xml

If you are streaming a group of varying format files, you can homogenize them like this:

     <ezstream>
       <url>http://anonradio.net:8010/YOUR_DJ_MOUNT_NAME</url>
       <sourceuser>openmic</YOUR_DJ_USER_NAME>
       <sourcepassword>YOUR_DJ_PASSWORD</sourcepassword>
       <format>MP3</format>
       <filename>/PATH/TO/YOUR/playlist.m3u</filename>
       <svrinfobitrate>192</svrinfobitrate>
       <svrinfosamplerate>44100</svrinfosamplerate>
       <stream_once>1</stream_once>
         <reencode>
         <enable>1</enable>
         <encdec>
         <format>MP3</format>
         <match>.mp3</match>
         <decode>/usr/pkg/bin/madplay -v -Q -i -b 16 -R 44100 -S -o raw:- @T@</decode>
         <encode>/usr/pkg/bin/lame --preset cbr 192 -r -s 44.1 --bitwidth 16 - -</encode>
         </encdec>
         </reencode>
     </ezstream>
  

There are also instructions for streaming with ezstream on Debian using PulseAudio.

Streaming Metadata Manually

During your show you can login here:

http://anonradio.net/playlist/

Login with your anonradio.net streaming credentials. You will ONLY be able to login during your show.

This feature will be helpful to DJs who stream from analogue devices like turntables, cassettes and such that don't send playlist MetaData.