Free J999
Live shows only
$0a month
$5 once, when the station is built; that fee is not refunded.
- Bitrate cap32 Kbps
- Listeners at once1,000
- Auto DJno
- Podcastingno
SHOUTcast server hosting · DNAS 2.6 · New York & Bucharest
SHOUTcast server hosting.DNAS 2.6 is one switch away.
Your station starts on Icecast, and one switch in your control panel moves it to a SHOUTcast DNAS 2.6 server, on every plan including Free, with its own DNAS admin and status pages, a listing in the SHOUTcast Directory, and every panel feature Icecast stations have.
- SHOUTcast DNAS 2.6
- DNAS admin and status pages
- SHOUTcast Directory
- AS19624
The servers are ours, in New York and Bucharest, on our own network. The switch sits in the control panel of all three plans, and Free costs $5 once and $0 a month after that.
The switch
What a station gets when it moves to DNAS 2.6
Icecast or SHOUTcast is a setting of the station, not a separate product. Flip it in the control panel and these are the parts that change, and the parts that stay.
The server
The station runs a SHOUTcast DNAS 2.6 server in place of Icecast, on the same hardware, in New York or Bucharest.
Admin and status pages
DNAS's own admin and status pages for your station, alongside the control panel.
SHOUTcast Directory
Enter the authhash from your own SHOUTcast RadioManager account in the panel and the DNAS reports the station to the SHOUTcast Directory. Directory listeners play it from a plain-http address that exists only while the station is listed; the links you hand out stay https, with a plain-http copy in the panel for older players.
The control panel
Every tool an Icecast station has stays: statistics, the station page, the airplay log and licensing records, and Auto DJ on the paid plans.
The plan
Listeners at once, bitrate and storage come from the plan, Free, Premium or Platinum. The switch is on all three.
The hardware
Servers we own on AS19624. No reseller sits between your station and the machine it runs on.
Encoders
Three values from the panel, in the encoder you know
A SHOUTcast encoder needs the server, the port and the password. The Go live tab prints all three with a copy button beside each, and reveals the password when you ask for it.
Where the fields are
- BUTT
- Server type SHOUTcast; address, port, password
- RadioBOSS
- SHOUTcast output; host, port, password
- SAM
- SHOUTcast encoder target; server, port, password
- Mixxx
- Type Shoutcast 1; host, port, password
- Winamp DSP
- Legacy (v1) mode; address, port, password
- Send MP3 at or below the plan's bitrate cap of 32, 128 or 320 Kbps; a source above it is disconnected
- Liquidsoap's SHOUTcast output connects the same way
- On Platinum the panel also gives the Nearest server settings: ingest.radio.serverroom.net, port 14000, and your station number and a colon in front of the password
- On Premium and Platinum, the browser studio and DJ accounts go on air without any encoder at all
- Also on the paid plans: a talk-over input that puts a presenter's voice over the programme with the music ducked, and a recording of every live show kept in your library
- On Platinum, a standby slot beside the DJ handoff takes the air only when neither show is sending
Listeners
Audience limits, written down per plan
The cap on listeners at the same moment is 1,000 on Free, 2,500 on Premium and 5,000 on Platinum. Premium includes 500,000 listener hours a month and Platinum 1.5 million, about 690 and 2,080 people tuned in for the whole month.
Bandwidth is not counted on any plan. Above 5,000 at once, tell us the expected peak and we quote a stream spread across several of our servers.
- Email at 80% and at 100% of the monthly listener hours, with the running figure on the overview tab
- At 100%, new connections are refused until the month turns or the station moves to Platinum; nobody already listening is cut off
- Listener counts, sessions and peaks in the panel, kept 7, 30 or 90 days by plan
- A live list of who is listening right now, on all three plans, with a CSV download
Plans
Free, Premium, Platinum
SHOUTcast encoders connect on all three. The plan decides bitrate, audience and whether music keeps playing after you disconnect.
Premium J402
Auto DJ between shows
$39a month
$390 paid yearly, $78 less than twelve months.
14 days free
- Bitrate cap128 Kbps
- Listeners at once2,500
- Music library20 GB
- DJ accounts5
- Podcastingincluded
Platinum J403
Worldwide delivery, full bitrate, extra streams
$79a month
$790 paid yearly, $158 less than twelve months.
14 days free
Global radio CDN
SHOUTcast and Icecast listeners, and your encoder, on our nearest server: New York, Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam or Bucharest.
A faster start and less buffering across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, North Africa and West Asia. How it works
- Bitrate cap320 Kbps
- Listeners at once5,000
- Streams3
- Music library100 GB
- DJ accounts20
- Podcastingincluded
14 days free on Premium and Platinum. The card or PayPal account goes on file at checkout and nothing is charged until day 14 ends; cancel before then and the trial costs nothing. One trial per new customer, and a Free or Premium station gets one when it moves up a plan.
An audience in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, North Africa or West Asia?
Platinum's radio CDN serves each listener from the nearest of five cities, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Miami, New York and San Francisco, and takes your encoder in at the nearest one too, so the station starts faster and buffers less wherever they are. If a server stops answering, the next nearest city takes over. How the radio CDN works
Compare
On air and live, plan by plan
| Feature | Free | Premium | Platinum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radio CDN, Platinum only | |||
| Listeners on the nearest of five cities | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Your encoder in at the nearest city | Not included | Not included | Included |
| A failed server skipped, the next city serves | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Broadcasting | |||
| Concurrent listeners, hard cap | 1,000 | 2,500 | 5,000 |
| Listener hours per calendar month | no allowance | 500,000 | 1.5 million |
| Maximum bitrate | 32 Kbps | 128 Kbps | 320 Kbps |
| Streams (extras are lower-bitrate relays) | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| https listen link and web player | Included | Included | Included |
| Icecast and SHOUTcast-protocol encoders; switch to SHOUTcast DNAS 2.6 yourself | Included | Included | Included |
| Live shows | |||
| DJ accounts, each with its own login and hours | Not included | 5 | 20 |
| Browser studio, nothing to install | Not included | Included | Included |
| Live takeover, Auto DJ resume, emergency cut | Not included | Included | Included |
| Dead-air detection | Not included | Included | Included |
| Talk-over mount: mic on top, music ducked | Not included | Included | Included |
| Live shows recorded to the library, one click to an episode | Not included | Included | Included |
| Backup source, seamless DJ handoff, standby slot | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Guest links, no account needed | Not included | Not included | Included |
Auto DJ, statistics and licensing rows for every plan are on the internet radio hosting page. On Premium and Platinum, a refund request made within three days of activation is honoured pro-rated, minus a 15% fee, under our refund policy.
Radio CDN · Platinum
Every listener tunes in from the server nearest to them
Your station lives on one server, in New York or Bucharest. Its listeners and its encoder do not have to reach it there: on Platinum, our radio CDN answers each of them from the nearest of five cities, and each of our servers fetches one copy of your stream however many listeners it has.
- One link for every listener. The station's CDN link connects each listener to our server nearest to their network, which plays your station from the copy it keeps for everyone listening there.
- The encoder goes to the nearest server too. That server passes your broadcast straight on to your station, which checks the password and runs the show exactly as it does today.
- A server that stops answering drops out. Each one is checked every 10 seconds; after 2 failed checks in a row it is left out, and listeners who reconnect land on the next nearest.
On Platinum, your panel shows the station's CDN link and the Nearest server encoder settings. On Free and Premium, listeners and the encoder connect to the station's own server. The links and the encoder settings in use today keep working on every plan.
Listeners in several regions? Platinum meets each of them nearby
Instead of crossing an ocean to reach your station, every listener connects to a server in or near their own region, and so does your encoder. In our tests, audio started 0.25–0.7 seconds after the player connected through these servers.
- North AmericaNew York
- Latin America and the CaribbeanMiami
- Western EuropeAmsterdam
- Eastern EuropeBucharest
- North Africa and the rest of AfricaAmsterdam
- The Middle EastBucharest
- West Asia: Turkey and the CaucasusBucharest
- South and Central AsiaBucharest
- Asia-PacificSan Francisco
Each region has a second city behind the first, and New York behind both, for the moment a server stops answering.
Answers
SHOUTcast hosting questions
What does SHOUTcast server hosting include?
A SHOUTcast DNAS 2.6 server for your station on our hardware in New York or Bucharest, its DNAS admin and status pages, a SHOUTcast Directory listing that Directory users can play, once you add the authhash from your RadioManager account, and every tool the control panel gives an Icecast station.
Can a free station run on SHOUTcast?
Yes. The switch is on Free as on Premium and Platinum. Free costs $5 once, when the station is built, and $0 a month.
Does a new station start on SHOUTcast?
A new station starts on Icecast 2.5. Turn on SHOUTcast in the control panel and the station moves to a DNAS 2.6 server; nothing needs to be ordered.
Can an Icecast station still take a SHOUTcast encoder?
Yes. A station that stays on Icecast accepts classic SHOUTcast encoders through a bridge on its port plus one, with the same server, port and password fields.
Which SHOUTcast encoders can I use?
BUTT, RadioBOSS, SAM Broadcaster, Mixxx, Liquidsoap and the Winamp SHOUTcast DSP in legacy (v1) mode. Each needs the server, port and password from the Go live tab, and all of them work on Free, Premium and Platinum.
What bitrate can I send?
Up to 32 Kbps on Free, 128 on Premium and 320 on Platinum, in MP3. An encoder that sends more than the cap is disconnected, so set it at the cap or below.
How many listeners can tune in?
1,000 at once on Free, 2,500 on Premium, 5,000 on Platinum. The paid plans also carry 500,000 and 1.5 million listener hours a month. For a bigger peak we quote a mirrored setup.
Does Auto DJ work with a SHOUTcast encoder?
Yes, on Premium and Platinum. Auto DJ plays your library to the schedule while nobody is live, and your encoder takes over when it connects. Free has no library storage, so it has no Auto DJ. How the hour clocks work.
Is there a free trial on the paid radio plans?
Yes, 14 days on Premium and Platinum. You add a card or PayPal at checkout, the first charge comes when the trial ends, and cancelling before then costs nothing. Each new customer gets one trial, and a Free or Premium station gets one when it upgrades.
Read next
Encoder guides and the rest of the station
Bring the SHOUTcast encoder you already have
The free plan costs $5 once and nothing after that. A paid plan keeps music on air between your live shows.