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Hello All,

I have been broadcasting on the internet for about three years now, with a respectable audience size. I would still like to grow my listener count in San Antonio, so if anyone knows of an LPFM etc where I can broadcast even part time in the San Antonio area, please let me know.

Also if you did not know, I have written my own radio automation software that I use to broadcast San Antonio Dance Radio, its called Nextast. I recently added voice tracking. www.nextkast.com


Thanks
Winston Potgieter - Founder
www.saDanceRadio.com
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Try contacting 96.9 KXTJ? http://www.facebook.com/969jamz
It's an LPFM, but they're currently off the air as I believe they are going to move towers. I know more LPFMs may start up around town, too. So I'd keep an eye on that. Maybe you can rent out some time from a station, or go full time on one (that would be nicer).

Just contact some stations, see if you can work something out. I would advise though that some station owners overcharge for airtime. Just do your research though and you should be fine. I like dance music, and would love it if SA had EDM on FM. :D
 
Have you considered marketing just the streaming software part of your program to people who are happy with their current automation system? It should be fairly easy to do, since you have it bundled with your automation program. There seems to be a lack of simple stand alone programs that can take raw audio in from a sound card, grab title info from a "now playing" file on a computer and stream it to a Shoutcast or Icecast server. This is especially true f you'd like to use AAC+. (Or maybe it's just me...)
 
The latest version of Edcast Standalone does support AAC+, though that particular program is no longer in development according to it's author.
 
Chuck said:
There seems to be a lack of simple stand alone programs that can take raw audio in from a sound card, grab title info from a "now playing" file on a computer and stream it to a Shoutcast or Icecast server. This is especially true f you'd like to use AAC+. (Or maybe it's just me...)
Click to expand...

Here's one I found earlier and started using, sounds great. :) http://www.altacast.com/
It uses Icecast/Shoutcast, and natively supports OGG (both Vorbis, and flac). You can however use it with AAC and MP3 once you get the DLL encoder files listed on the website and drop them in your Altacast installation directory.

The encoder for AAC+ isn't listed on the website, but if you'd like it then PM me.

The best thing about this is it's open-source, anyone can edit and improve it. :)
 
Listened to the stream for about an hour. Very interesting variety of music that makes you move. Don't know if it'd catch on with today's average radio listener, but it has potential...
 
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