Setting Up an Internet Radio Station

Related link: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digaudio/

Digital Audio Essentials, O’Reilly’s “comprehensive guide to creating, recording, editing, and sharing music and other audio,” is out, and you can read the Internet Radio chapter right now for free. I did, and learned a lot.

The authors go all the way from basic Internet radio concepts to setting up your own streaming audio server. There’s also a detailed discussion of Live365’s services, which enable even people with wimpy upload speeds and zero knowledge of the draconian online broadcasting rules (PDF) to get into the game.

This chapter is all I’ve seen of the book, but it looks very promising—detailed yet digestible. From the table of contents (PDF), it also looks like a good complement to musician-oriented books. Despite the subtitle, the emphasis seems to be more on manipulating music than making it. But that’s a good thing. Many of the numerous skills covered are ones that musicians and active listeners alike should know.

What are your digital audio essentials?