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Ask HN: Internet Radio Station Options

A friend of mine use to own a very prominent record store back east and wants to setup an internet radio station; googling doesn't really yield anything that looks that great. Wondering if there are any new options, new startups, etc, out there that offer a service or even software that you setup/host yourself. Paying a month host fee or service fee is fine, like to keep that as low as possible since this is an experiment for him.

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Internet Radio Station Options by sim0nk on Friday December 12, 2014 @03:36PM (#8742548)
Depends on the operating system and what kind of features they will need.

I am currently doing the following:

Steamcast: - 24/7 relay of other stations. - Accepts a relay of live music (via NiceCast) - Free [running on a Linux VPS]

NiceCast: - Stream music live if I want to demo some tunes to my audience - Mac friendly - $50

Re:Ask HN: Internet Radio Station Options by evo_9 on Friday December 12, 2014 @04:05PM (#8742680)
Thanks, appreciate the info. Basically it would be on mac and feature-wise, not sure just yet. It would be for a 'traditional' radio station style setup, aka music, not podcast type of thing.