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Listen2MyRadio.com Guide
Introduction:

Listen2myradio is a service, which allows people or organization to broadcast over the
Internet for free. There is a limit on amount of listeners that can listen to your broadcast. That
limit is 500 listeners at one time. If you broadcast copyrighted material you have to pay
royalties. The administrator of this service said that the limit of the listeners could be
increased if requested. Your radio station can be listened through the listen2myradio website.
If you would like to broadcast from your personal website you would have to pay fee for this
service (http://www.listen2myradio.com/gold) This is because the listen2myradio is funded
through the advertisements that are seen on the listen2myradio website while your listeners
listen to your radio station.

The server of listen2myradio is located in Israel. The following part of this tutorial will
explain to you how to start broadcasting via using listen2myradio site.

Sign up and installation:

Signing up

In order to broadcast through listen2myradio you need to create an account with
listen2myradio.

Go to www.listen2myradio.com and click on “terms of use” link. Review the terms of use
terms and conditions. If you agree with those terms click on the sign up” link. Fill in the fields
as required.

First choose your username. Your user name will allow you to log in to your administrative
panel for your radio station. Your user name does not have to correspond to the name of your
radio station. For instance your user name can be ab. This is the user name that we are going
to use in this tutorial of course you can choose any user name that you wish.

Then you have to choose your password that allows you to log in into your administrative
panel, let us say that your password will be 1234. This is the password that we are going to
use in this tutorial of course you can choose any password you wish.

In the next field retype your chosen password

In the next field provide your working email address. Note it is essential to provide your
working email address because this email address will be used to send you important
instructions dealing with your radio station.

In the next field retype your working email address.

In the next field type the name of the country from which you are broadcasting.

Next select your gender from the combo box

Next check the radio button indicating that you read the terms of use for this service.

Next press the sign up button Note that you have to fill out all the fields of the sign up form
before proceeding any further. Next wait for the email with the further instructions. The
email should arrive instantaneously. Please click on the link to confirm your sign up process.

Next go to www.listen2myradio.com and click on the “login” link.

Then enter your username that you choose when you signed up for listen2myradio. In our
case enter ab Of course substituted the as username used in this tutorial with your real user
name that you choose.

Then enter your password that you choose when signing up for listen2myradio in our case the
password was 1234. Of course substitute the password used in this tutorial with your real
password that you choose when signing up for the listen2myradio account.

Then press the login button.

Now click on the link “radio installation”

Now you have to fill out further details about your radio station. First enter your broadcaster
password for our purposes the broadcaster password will be the same as your password to log
in to your account “1234” of course you can select any password you want.

Next select your admin password. For our purposes the admin password will be the same
password as the broadcaster password “1234” of course you can select any password you
wish.

Next select the radio name, for our purposes your radio name will be abc. Of course you can
select any radio name you want.

Next leave the port suggested at 2001.

Next select the url for your radio station. Let us say that your radio station is called abc than
you can enter abc into this box. Your actual url will be http://abc.listen2myradio.com note that
you do not have to the .listen2myradio suffix because it will be generated automatically for
you.
Then press the install button

You see a message telling you that the port 2001 is taken. Then you will see list of available
ports, decide on one and click on the “radio installation” link. Fill out the information
mentioned above. In the combo box select the port that you chose. For the purpose of this
tutorial the port that we selected is the port 6000 note that you have to select the port that you
chose from the available ports.

After filling out all information correctly press the install button.

Within two hours you should receive an email with the details for your radio station.

This email will confirm that the installation was successful, telling you that the link to listen
to your radio is http://abc.listen2myradio.com of course the link will correspond to the link
that you typed in when you filled out the radio installation form.
The email will give you the ip address from which you can broadcast. Unfortunately this ip
address is incorrect so please disregard the ip address mentioned in the email.

In order to broadcast you need to download certain components from the internet. Firstly, you
need to download winamp application; on some computers winamp 2.9 can be used. On
others you can use winamp version 5.

To download winamp 2.9 go to
http://www.listen2myradio.com/support.php
and click on the link “To download winamp version 2.9 press here” then click on the open
button, then wait for the winamp application to download, and follow the instructions in the
set up install shield wizard

To download winamp version 5 basic click on the link
http://www.winamp.com/player/free.php
Next click on “full” link. Click on open button then wait for your download to finish and
follow the instructions in the set up install shield wizard

Now download the shoutcast plug-in that will be used by the winamp program. In order to
accomplish this task go to
http://www.listen2myradio.com/support.php
Click on the link “Press here to download the plug-in” then press the open button and follow
the instructions in the set up install shield wizard

Now open the winamp program you can do so by hitting the windows key then hit p for
programs and then hit the letter w until you see that you landed on the winamp application
then press enter
Than use your up and down arrow keys until you see that the winamp application is
highlighted and then press enter.

You will be prompted to enter your email address and other information; you can enter them
now or choose to enter them later

Now you need to configure your winamp player pres the keys control p at once

Now you should see a tree view use your up and down arrow to scroll through the tree view
until you highlight the item “dsp/effect” press enter or your right error to open this tree view
use your up and down errors until you highlight the item "Nullsoft SHOUTcast Source DSP
v1.8.2b"

Now press the right arrow or enter on this item

Now the broadcast window will open.
In that window you'll need to input a few details about your server host.

Let's start inputting the server details, for that go to Output tab.
A. In the "Address" field delete the written line (localhost) and write the address of your
server, for example: 84.95.247.20
In order to right down a correct ip address go to
www.listen2myradio.com
Login to your account
Then click on the link “preferences”. Then find what ip address you were given and input this
ip address into the “address field” in the output tab of your winamp application
In the "Port" field write the port of your radios' server, that you received from the site. This
is the port that you selected when you were filling out the information in the radio installation
form. In our example it was a port 6000, of course your write the port that you have chosen
while filling out the radio installation form. If you do not remember what port you selected go
to
www.listen2myradio.comm.
Then click on the link “login” to login into your account. Use your user name and password to
login into your account. Then click again on the “preferences” link, scroll down to the button
of the screen to find your port number. Then input this port number into your “port field” in
the winamp output tab.

In the "Password" field in the winamp output tab write your broadcast password.
Notice there are 2 passwords, one for Admin and one for broadcast, here you write only the
broadcast password.
In our example the broadcast password was 1234 of course you use the broadcast password
that you selected in the radio installation form

Next go to "Encoder" tab, in the winamp application and choose the quality of the broadcast.
The quality of the broadcast that is suggested in fast internet servers is not more than 64kbps.
Because a common upload speed is 14kbps, and if the quality will be higher than 64, the
songs will jump and ruin the whole broadcast.

To start the broadcast go to the www.listen2myradio.com click on the link “login” and user
your user name and password to login to your account.
Then click on the link “turn on/off”
Then click on the link “turn on”
Then go back to the Output tab in the winamp application and press "Connect", naturally the
songs must be played from your winamp Play list.

Tips:

To check the current number of your radios’ listeners goes to
http://ip:port
Instead of the "ip" write your ip that you can find when you log in into your account at
www.listen2myradio.com under the “preferences” link. Then type the punctuation ":", and
Then type the port number that you selected while filling the radio installation form.
You can also see the number of listeners on the main page of the www.listen2myradio.com
site.

If you can't connect to the server after you followed the instructions given above and filled

Everything needed to be filled and did everything in order, check if there is a
Firewall or Router that blocks your connection to the server. Also it's suggested to turn p2p
programs (such as e- mule) off.

If you have any further question or need further assistant you can
Go to
http://forum.listen2myradio.com

Click on the link “register”

Read the registration agreement terms and than click on an appropriate link below.

Then enter your user name. For our example the user name is the same as the user name that
we selected for our listen2myradio account “ab” of course you can choose any user name that
you wish.

Then enter your working email address.

Then choose your password, in our case the password is the same as the password that we
selected when we registered for our listen2myradio account “1234” of course you can choose
any password that you wish.

Then retype your password.

You can decide whether you want to fill out the additional information or not. When you fill
out all necessary information press the “submit” button.

Shortly, you will receive an email from the listen2myradio administrator
This email will contain your user name and your password that you selected when registering
for your http://forum.listen2myradio.com account. Now you can login into your
http://forum.listen2myradio.com account by using your user name and password and post
your questions or reply to other posts.

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