Audio Streaming Manual

Start your own Internet radio station – Quick & Easy.

20-Minutes to make your own Radio Station:

  1. Open account with AdriaHost – 5 min
  2. Get Winamp player for playing the music for FREE – 5 min
  3. Get DSP plug-in for Winamp for FREE – 5 min
  4. Set your streaming account – 5 min

Total time to setup - 20 min.

After above mentioned settings, your Internet radio station is ready to start transmitting. Only thing left for you to do is to make playlists and transmit your Internet radio signal!

If you have any questions or problems with account settings or installation, contact our technical support service at any time.

Our Audio Streaming Manual will assist you with settings of your account and signal transmission.

Administration Panel (Main Menu)

After you have registered and selected the desired package. Our administrator will create and activate your account. You can then access your control panel using the following link:
http://adriastream.net/cast/
You can enter username and password you received on registration to open the control panel. On the left hand side, you will see the main menu as shown in image.

Server Control

Important: The most important thing to do before transmitting signal from your computer is to activate your server by clicking on option “Start Server”. To allow trouble-free access to your radio station and server, it is mandatory to setup your account first.

Setup your Streaming Account

Use field “Stream title” to enter name of your radio station, then e-mail, company name and name of your radio station. Use field password to enter your password (which you received on registration with us).

Remember this password because you will need it in one of the following steps.

In this way, the most important parameters in your control panel are set up and server is prepared for receiving signal from your computer. Now you can activate server as shown in previous image.

Real-Time Display

AdriaHost provides graphic display of number of listeners in real-time, quantity of transferred data, bit-rate, etc. Monitor your statistics and have insight in number of listeners at any time. It is very important to check this option so that we can ensure trouble-free streaming for you at all times.


Rating Statistics

This will give you detailed rating statistics of your radio. Using this statistics, you can monitor the type of program which is most suitable for your listeners, which could then be used for further planning of the program. You will have an insight in which time period your radio has the largest number of listeners, so you could use this period in the best way. It is recommended to use this option for your monitoring your radio.

DSP plugin for Winamp

Now that you have created and activated server for signal transmission, you need to do the most important part and this is setting your computer to transmit radio signal. For this you can download Winamp player and DSP plug-in for Winamp from our site:

Download Winamp Player
Download DSP plug-in for Winamp

Now that you have downloaded Winamp and DSP plug-in, install them and start Winamp. Go to Options –> Preferenses –> Plugin –> DSP/Effect –> and select ShoutCast Source DSP vxxx

Setting DSP

First you must select the option “Encoder” and then adjust the sound quality corresponding to quality you have leased from us (32, 64 or 128). Go to card “Output” and fill out the following fields in menu “Connection|:

Address: 174.132.123.90
Port: Port you received on registration, for instance: 8999
Password: You entered in control panel
Encoder: Select 1

Go to option “Yellowpages“ and make settings if you want your station to appear on ShoutCast site.

After completing these settings, click CONNECT to connect and start transmission.

Remember: It is very important that you have started your server before trying to connect.

Links and Posting Your Radio

You need to post links used for transmission of your signal to your radio site, so the listeners could hear program from your radio station. We provide links for some most popular media players: Winamp, Windows Media Player, Real Player and Quick Time Player.

We give you links for all four players. Please note that word “username” in each link must be replaced with your username:
Winamp link: http://adriastream.net/cast/tunein.php/username/playlist.pls
Windows Media Player link: http://adriastream.net/cast/tunein.php/username/playlist.asx
Real Player link: http://adriastream.net/cast/tunein.php/username/playlist.ram
Quick Time Player link: http://adriastream.net/cast/tunein.php/username/playlist.qtl

Winamp Player

Only thing left now is to create playlist in Winamp and click Play. From this moment onwards, your Internet radio signal will start transmission. Congratulations!

Important notice: Complete text on this page is posted as a help in process of setting your audio streaming account. If there is any part of this manual that you don’t understand, feel free to contact us via phone, email or our contact page.