Stream Music into Second Life

Category: Random Ramblings Posted by Ashok Bania, Sep 6th 2008 9:25AM

People nowadays live 99 lives and what is a life without music!

I have been following this new website, Secondlife which lets me live a different life on the internet. It lets me become a pilot, DJ, surfer - anything I want to be. Tinkering with it, I found that we can stream music into it. It lets you link up a server where from you can stream audio into the secondlife environment. Winamp provides a great platform of streaming through SHOUTcast and I thought 'Why not use SHOUTcast and stream some music and make my Secondlife more interesting? I even found a cool video uploaded by one of our esteemed users.

Quick easy steps:

1) Download the plugin 'Be a DJ' from www.shoutcast.com
2) Install the plugin and configure it from Preference-> Plugin->DSP/Effect->SHOUTcast Source DSP V1.x (See SHOUTcast.com's 'Be a DJ' page for more installation help
3) Once you install and configure, you will be able to stream music as well as sound card's output (which can be microphone input etc.) into the server. You will get the server address as well. Copy the server address.
4) When you are in Secondlife, just go to the AboutLand box and click on the media tab and paste the server address and you are ready to go :)

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1. Since AOL bought Nolsesoft will the Aim player replace Winamp since Winamp is so buggie, and people are supposed to pay for features that were once free?

Posted at 11:19PM on Sep 6th 2008 by James Vaglia

2. Hmm... What i'd really like to see, is Last.fm support for Winamp Remote... I use it to access home music from the office!!! =)

Posted at 4:46PM on Sep 8th 2008 by nicolas

3. James - Nope... no plans of AIM player replacing Winamp.

Nicolas - Not a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion!

Posted at 5:00PM on Sep 8th 2008 by The Winamp Team

4. ok, i went the the four tabed window for shoutcast source. and there is no place to input an ip adress. what do i do now? can you please direct me to an updated helo video?

Posted at 12:27PM on Apr 30th 2009 by Roland Tigerfish

5. ok disreguard my last post. lol. im a newbie so please forgive me.

if i'm using shoutcast DNAS how do i tell what my server url is? because it turns my computer into the server?

Also i have yet to find an easy 1-2-3 walk through on configuring the DNAS. So i'm basically stuck with a station i cant figure out how to put the name to, or how to figure out how to up link my DNAS url code into the media tab on SL. please help

Posted at 2:31PM on Apr 30th 2009 by Roland Tigerfish