Shoutcast Server Hosting
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Order Freemium View PricingAll of our Shoutcast hosting plans include bandwidth, allowing you to grow your station without the worry of reaching any limits.
All the features of Shoutcast hosting can be managed with the Centova Cast control panel.
You can review detailed performance metrics, resource usage, listener demographics and royalty reports. Drag and drop to create playlist for use with the AutoDJ feature.
If you have a website or require web hosting to create your station's online presence, you can integrate now-playing details, recent tracks, song requests and more using widgets on your site.
When you create your own internet station, your audience can be listening from any where in the world.
Shoutcast allows your listeners to connect using any device such as a laptop, PC, smartphone or tablet. Providing your listeners have an internet connection, they can listen to your stream anytime.
Your listeners will enjoy high quality streaming, no matter where they are.
Centova Cast allows streams to be clustered, otherwise known as a relay stream. This allows your stream to be broadcasted to one server, this in turn allows other Shoutcast servers to relay from that main server, enabling you to send your stream to geographical locations anywhere in the world. Your listeners can then connect to a more localised server.
Our service is packed with features for your stream, here are just some.
Stream to your listeners when you are offline. Centova Cast gives you the ability to create multiple playlists for different times of the day.
View historical statistics on performance, listeners and resource usage in a friendly graphical interface, plus many other useful metrics.
With continuous updates and improvements to Shoutcast, your server will always be on the latest available version of the streaming platform.
Every listener has different preferences for streaming internet music. With Centova Cast, you can provide listener links for different devices.
Collate your music and the genres you wish to stream and broadcast live to your audience, creating a real internet radio station that you own.
With Centova Cast, take full control over the Shoutcast software with the additional features such as AutoDJ and listener statistics.
Some of the common Shoutcast hosting questions
Shoutcast is server-side software that listens for source based media connections. Once established users can connect to the Shoutcast server and listen to what is being streamed, creating a live broadcast to anywhere in the world.
Using Centova Cast management, you can add use the AutoDJ feature to create a stream that plays 24/7.
There are a number of client-side applications you can use, but most commonly used is Winamp.
You will also need to install the Shoutcast DSP plugin for Winamp. This will then allow you to connect and stream to the Shoutcast server.
All of our streaming plans come with unmetered bandwidth, allowing you to broadcast all day, every day.
As with any kind of streaming, bandwidth can be easily consumed. We recommend you have a good internet connection to stream from your source computers to the Shoutcast server.
The control panel provides detailed statistics of your listeners, including geo location. You can also ban these listeners if you wish to.
After a while you will see trends of listeners, devices used and other stats.