How to create my own radio station in Internet Radio Cast on VPS?

Updated: June 3, 2019
To create your own radio station in Internet Radio Cast on VPS, you have to buy or subscribe a free trial plan. You don’t have to create an account prior to buying a plan. It is very easy and direct, just follow these simple steps.

Step one: Choose the plan you need in the Homepage or in Products page

All the plans are clearly seen in the homepage and Radio plans menu. Choose view plans to view specific product and you will be directed to their single product page.

Step two: Choose the Server location, Broadcasting server and optionally, add further instructions

1 – First, under Data Center | Server location dropdown menu, you have 3 options to choose from… *Asia, America and Europe.

*In the future, we are planning to provide server location in countries such as Australia and New Zealand.

2 – Secondly, choose what type of broadcasting service do you want us to install in your server. Either Shoutcast v2 or Icecast v2.

3 – ***Additionally, if you have a domain name already hosted somewhere else. You can further instruct us to create a server that is under your domain name as a sub domain. For example, you have domainname.com, we can create a server that is sub.domainname.com. Whatever sub domain you want it to be. And because of this, your free web player will automatically become a **white labelled player.

** For this feature, white labelled web player and server, we require a one time payment of $20. This feature request may be created and paid after the server is functional. On the recent update, the extra field will be your radio station name. Once you provide a radio station name, your server will automatically create a station out from your added name.

*** This is not a required step. If you don’t want this feature, you can just leave it blank and proceed to add to cart button.

Step three: Add Product to Cart and apply a coupon code if you have one. Then proceed to checkout.

Once you have added the plan, you can enter this promo code, OPENING20. It’s a 60% discount for 1 month. That means you only pay $6 for a VIP plan! What’s inside the plan? Well, it’s a 320kbps and unlimited listeners. You get more than what you paid for!

Step four: Fill up the required details and then check the box if you agree on our Terms and Condition. After that, Place the order.

After placing the order, you will now be redirected to Paypal’s website. Where you can either pay via your PayPal account or pay using your credit card via PayPal gateway.

Please be informed that you are not required to create a PayPal account in order to buy using a credit card.

Also please take note, that our website is not storing any payment information. All payments are redirected to PayPal for extra safety measures.

As of the moment, we don’t accept any other payment gateway other than PayPal.

Step five: Lastly, after payment is done, these are the things that you can do.

• Finally, once you have paid via PayPal. You will be directed to a thank-you page, where you can see a summary of your order.
• Your account has been created and you are log in automatically. Also, there is a direct link of your complete order overview.
• You can also check your email, for your newly created account password. The username is the email you have registered.
• Another email indicating that your order has been processed already. We will now be implementing a nav menu on your dashboard for your server credentials.

*The direct link of your account will always be, https://www.radiocastvps.com/my-account. But you can login and logout anytime using the primary menu above. Currently, log in menu is on the secondary navigation

In less than 1-3 hours, after your streaming server has been created.

1. Another new email will be emailed to you. This time, with all the informations about your streaming server.
   • The log in link
   • Username and password for the login link
   • Host IP address for the live software connection
   • Port number for the live source connection
   • The source password for the live source connection
   • Admin password – for your Shoutcast or Icecast admin page.
2. You can also find the same information in your account’s order menu.
   • A view button, indicating your streaming information and login link and the associated order. So if you bought 2 plans, they are separated and organized properly with different login links.
   • Additionally, a PDF invoice of your recent order.

You can visit the link anytime and login to your newly created streaming server. (Please check the slider image).

That’s all!

Today’s Lesson: Automatically Tweet your Radio Tracks in Twitter.

To allow Twitter to tweet your current songs, you must have the following: 

• Twitter developer account
• Twitter API keys and tokens
• Azuracast subscription

Step one: Create a web hook in Azuracast

In the Web Hooks tab (left sidebar), click the (+) button, and then choose Twitter post. Copy the exact URL and we will paste it later to your Twitter app in the Callback URLs field.

Step two: Create a Twitter Developer account

If you don’t have a Twitter developer account, please create one (if you have, you can skip this and move to step 3). When applying for a developer account, I would suggest to choose the personal option. After that, just fill in all the required details properly, to avoid Twitter from disapproving your application.

Step three: Generate APIs by creating a Twitter app

Click the Create an app button to get started in creating your first app! Answer the required questions from Twitter. Do not tick  “Enable Sign in with Twitter”.

In the Callback URLs field, make sure to copy and paste the exact URL from your AzuraCast Twitter creation tab. If you have a website, you can add the URL and also add your TOS and privacy policy link.

Click save.

Step Four: Test the web hook

Finally, after adding the APIs, you can select what web hook trigger you want Twitter to post automatically. After that click save and test it.

* Update (May 2019). The app is now capable of limiting tweets by time and by events. For more details, please check the web hook of your station.

In this video, we will show you how to connect your broadcasting software to AzuraCast panel.

1. First, is to start broadcasting on your AzuraCast panel.
2. Next, is to open your broadcasting software. In this example I use, BUTT broadcasting software.
3. And then add the hostname/IP address. (The IP address will be given to your email separately).
4. Now add the owner’s source password located at the station’s dashboard.
5. Finally, enable streaming and add the port number.

* You should take note that in AzuraCast, Shoutcast port number is deducted by 1. So in this example, the port number is 8016 minus 1. So 8015 should be your port number.

* Explanation provided by AzuraCast in their official webpage. Kindly check it here, https://github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast/wiki/Streaming-Software.

Additionally, you can create a separate account for your DJs.

Connecting your DJ account has the same procedure except for the source password. The source password for dj has a different format and it will be like this, djuser:djpassword.

That’s all!

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Video Tutorial: How to connect your Broadcasting service to a Shoutcast installed AzuraCast panel

In this video, we will show you step by step (1-8) on how to simply create a playlist in your AzuraCast panel and then add your newly updated song files to that newly created playlist.

1. Click Manage tab on your dashboard
2. Click Playlist tab
3. Click (+) button Add New
4. Name your playlist
5. Weight your playlist (1- played few, 20 – played often)
6. Click save
7. Go back to Playlist tab
8. Tick/Check the songs you want to add to the new playlist created.

That’s all!

Connecting remotely to AzuraCast panel could be tricky if you are not careful enough.

In this tutorial, I am assuming that you are using BUTT to connect to AzuraCast. Just recently, I had minor connecting issues when I overlooked one vital information. So how should you connect to AzuraCast successfully?

ShoutCast server configuration

First of all, let’s connect your BUTT to a Southeast configuration. It’s worth to mention, that AzuraCast has one important step that you should not overlook. And because of that, I was having a hard time connecting to my ShoutCast server. Until too many failed attempts, I finally figured it out.

For this guide, to connect your live broadcasting software successfully, you must configure the PORT incorrectly.

According to AzuraCast documentation:

BUTT will automatically add 1 to the port number you specify if used in ShoutCast mode, so use the port specified in the “IceCast Clients” section. Since ShoutCast v1 does not let you specify a username, specify your password as dj_username:dj_password (the username and password for the DJ separated by a colon).

So that means, if the port information under the Streamer/DJ Accounts tab is 8016, then port configuration in BUTT should be 8015.

Also don’t forget to create a dj user or just use the owner account to activate live streaming. All server setting info will be emailed to you like the IP address, port number to use and source password. After all settings are added, you can now connect to BUTT successfully.

IceCast server configuration

On the next configuration, we will be setting up IceCast server. Normally, just copy the informations from AzuraCast dashboard to BUTT software. After adding all information, the next step is to enable firewall settings.

If AzuraCast server is installed via VPS, you have to enable the firewall settings. From your admin console, open TCP port range 8000-8020 or higher.

Otherwise, a non VPS streaming server will just work as is and doesn’t need further configurations.

Thank you for reading!