Loudcaster and Shoutcast Listings

[Mid West Clubber]

I just sat up a new station on Loudcaster and I have a few questions.. Number one,,, Why am i not showing up in the shoutcast directory with the rest of the loudcast stations. I am on tunein which is good,, but some of my listeners on slower connections,, or that use Macs, or if they still use IE, they cant tune in from our listener page.. which is located here http://www.loudcaster.com/channels/1320-xtreme-dance-radio If I can get a small but loyal audience for the Dance Format, then im also going to lauch a TM Century Oldies Format as well. But if they arent going to be compaitble with winamp/itunes, I may have to find another legal streaming service that will. I cant understand why other loudcast stations are listed in shoutcast and im not. Also,, I dont know why they do this, but I feed them a 128k mp3 stream, yet they DUMB it down and covert it to 32k aac????????

 

[bobperry]

Check your subscription on the dashboard. You have to check the SHOUTCASTbox (and pay a little extra) to show up on in Shoutcast. Loudcaster broadcasts everyone at 32k...they did offer a higher quality stream, but that was only 64k. I was told that they are considering adding a choice back into LC, but bandwidth costs money.

 

[Mainedude2007]

I'm pretty sure the Shoutcast/Loudcaster relationship ended. Older broadcasters are grandfathered in though, unfortunatley for new 'casters your only third party option is TuneIn.

 

[brandon]

Here are some clarifications you may find helpful:

You've probably noticed your Loudcaster channel comes with it's own player. That's your built in cross platform desktop player and on internet connection speed.

We don't "dumb down" live streams. We retain the quality and make them more bandwidth efficient by transcoding to AAC+. This ensures a live broadcaster doesn't choke out their outgoing bandwidth. They can reach multiple connection types with a single source instead of running an encoder for listeners on high speed desktops, low speed desktops, mobile, so on and so forth.

As for Shoutcast, we stopped working with it last summer because it increased our costs and provided no benefit in terms of audience growth or revenue generation. TuneIn is the only third party we work with right now for a few reasons. First 35 Million people use their products so it made sense to fully integrate with them. Second they are working with us to generate revenue, Shoutcast doesn't. I believe we can get to a free, legal and sponsor supported broadcasting option with TuneIn's help.

Loudcaster is small team with only so many resources so we can't be all things to everyone yet but we're doing well. Broadcasters are adopting us quickly. Most broadcasters are up and running within minutes, sometimes seconds if you've already got your live equipment running. The audience audience has a taste for Loudcaster as they have grown 100% over last year and 20% over the last couple months.