How To Create a Radio Station Online Tutorial

I wrote this tutorial after Mike’s post about “seocheckout Radio Station” because I know that not everyone is familiar with those things, even though that is pretty easy and really fun.

I have created a lot of online radio stations before, so you can trust me because I know what I’m doing , anyway this is only one of many ways that can be used to set-up your radio station for free without any cost.


What you need ?

1. Winamp Player | Click here to Download it
   
2. SHOUTcast Plugin for Winamp | Click here to Download it
   
3. SHOUTcast Account | SHOUTcast Website
   

SHOUTcast is really amazing and completely free broadcasting service, definitely it’s the best service that you can use to start your own radio station.

They also allows you to generate revenue from your radio station, if you choose free streaming service they will play automatically ads for your listeners based on their location, you’ll get revenue only if their monetization platform is available in your country. Currently it is available only in some countries.

In order to use their free service you need to trigger ads, you can find more details in this regard from the email that they will send you.





They offer two streaming options:

1.Free Streaming Service(Self Hosted)
You don’t need to host anything on your server or somewhere else, because they offer free hosting with unlimited bandwidth for your streaming service, basically you need only one account there and that’s it.

2.SHOUTcast (DNAs)
You can host the streaming software to your server, I would not recommend this unless you have a powerful server and enough bandwidth to stream.


Let's Start!

1.Go to SHOUTcast and register your account.

2.Next, after confirming your account, login to SHOUTcast , then Click to “Create a Radio station” after that you’ll need to choose one of two streaming options as is in photo below.




3.Choose Streaming Option which you prefer, and type all needed details and then click save.

4.After Clicking SAVE, you’ll receive streaming credentials on your email.

Like this photo below.



5. Now double click and Run Winamp

1. Click to Options
   
2. Go to Preference
   
3. Select DSP/Effect
   

Now you need to set the credentials that shoutcast has sended to your email, to do that simply double click to “SHOUTcast Source DSP”

Set Server Address, Port, Stream ID and password of your shoutcast account



Then click Connect to start streaming.


You can listen your radio via shoutcast website, or you can embed the player to your website,also you can manage everything from your shoutcast dashboard menu.


That's it! Enjoy..