quinda2

OK, so i'm not sure how many of you remember the day's when Live365 was still free to make a station on. Well, i'm wondering if there's any place that STILL lets you make stations for free. All the stuff i'd be playing would be on indie labels, so royalty BS shouldn't be that big of an issue. Also, if you can't a free service, i'd settle for an inexpensive one. Live365 just isn't that cheap anymore

Thanks in advance to everyone!

MC fool

I don't know of free services already, but if you have a server or some webspace somewhere, you can set up a shoutcast station

http://www.shoutcast.com/

Mika

I didn't even know live365 wasn't free anymore!! lol I'm so surprised! Why do they always have to destroy the good stuff in life?

Enterprise

A SHOUTcast station, with a decent server, is expensive to run if you don't have any listeners. If you're going to try and run a station, make sure you have listeners.

Alecto

there are a few shoutcast hosts that are very cheap, im sure there's free ones available to.

Enterprise

I don't think that many free hosts will let you run a shoutcast server. You have to have root/shell acess to do it, and that makes it very easy to nuke a server: rm -rf

cg1

Thats what I was thinking too.

MC fool

Get an old computer and run a server on linux with it. Unless it gets big, you should be fine.

quinda2

Thanks for the advice everyone! I do appreciate it. Let me know if you find any free or cheap Shoutcast servers, and i'll give them a try.

MC fool

You won't, that's what I've been saying. People just don't let out dedicated servers for free.

encoder

Listeners are the lifeblood of any music stations might it be online or on the radio. Without them, your station would not survive at all.

But if you really are interested into making your brand new online station, you need considerable numbers of advertisements to attract listeners. Then that will add more expense to you besides the server fee.