Well, it is common question when you are thinking for “How do I start my own FM radio station?”

Traditional VPS/Dedicated Server Solution [Cost: $29/month]

These Radio Hosting Solutions must be paid on a monthly or yearly basis. The Radio pricing will vary depending on the country you’re broadcasting from, as well as the countries you’re broadcasting to Online.

First of all you must know about your targeted listeners, you can use Internet Radio Bandwidth Calculator to calculate your Radio Server need.

Based on above calculation you need to choose your Radio Hosting Plans Like normally start from $29 per month

We are talking here about Radio Server Hosting Cost Only, not about Radio Studio Equipment, Microphones, Music Systems, Headphones, Boardband Internet, Royalty Free Music and Backup Systems. These are other Local cost while setting up Radio Studio.

ServerlessRadio (No VPS required) [Cost: $0/month]

But wait …. if you need to save this Radio Hosting Setup (VPS) Cost, you can try ServerlessRadio. ServerlessRadio will save you monthly Radio Hosting Bills.

ServerlessRadio.com Player provides JavaScript Radio Linear Audio (MP3) Stream like AutoDJ for your Internet Radio Listeners anywhere in the world.

Advantage of ServerlessRadio: You can insert Audio Ads in Linear Audio Playlist that can easily advertise your product or company. It will also save your Advertising Cost.

ServerlessRadio is ZERO Cost Internet Radio Solution for Radio Jockey, Radio DJs and Listeners.

ServerlessRadio provide you Free WordPress Plugin to install and setup your first Audio Playlist to broadcast it like Radio Stream using ServerlessRadio Player.

Checkout some ServerlessRadio Player Demos here

You can set your radio station up to run 24/7 using ServerlessRadio, it can play/broadcast pre-recorded Audio content anywhere in the world!

Do you need any special hosting or can you use current hosting account to setup ServerlessRadio?

How many listener can listen to ServerlessRadio can handle?

You can have as many listeners that your hosting account can take. If you have a service with unlimited bandwidth you will have unlimited listeners.

Recently one of my customer need to restream their Radio Live Stream on YouTube. So, I helped them to do Live Radio Stream on YouTube.

If you also need to stream Radio Stream to YouTube you will need a VPS server with FFmpeg installed. FFmpeg is a free open source, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

Ubuntu Install FFmpeg

You need to get YouTube Live URL & KEY from YouTube Live Dashboard

radio.sh

#! /bin/bash

VBR="1500k"
FPS="24"
QUAL="superfast"

YOUTUBE_URL="rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2"
KEY="xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"

VIDEO_SOURCE="/home/radio.gif"
AUDIO_SOURCE="http://[radio-server-ip-address]:[port]/stream"

ffmpeg \
    -re -f lavfi -i "movie=filename=$VIDEO_SOURCE:loop=0, setpts=N/(FRAME_RATE*TB)" \
    -thread_queue_size 512 -i "$AUDIO_SOURCE" \
    -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 \
    -map_metadata:g 1:g \
    -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset $QUAL -r $FPS -g $(($FPS * 2)) -b:v $VBR \
    -acodec libmp3lame -ar 44100 -threads 6 -qscale:v 3 -b:a 320000 -bufsize 512k \
    -f flv "$YOUTUBE_URL/$KEY"

Replace [radio-server-ip-address] with your Radio Server IP Address and [port] with Radio Stream Port

Find valid Radio Stream URL

Replace KEY with YouTube Live stream Key

VIDEO_SOURCE will be used to show animated gif as placeholder for YouTube Video while broadcasting Music from Radio Stream

Run Radio Live Stream for YouTube

# chmod a+x radio.sh
# ./radio.sh

Make this shell script run in background

Make sure your Radio Stream is Online, you can check your radio stream here Is Radio Stream Online?

SHOUTcast doesn’t support SSL/HTTPS. The shoutcast service on port like 8000 is an unencrypted server for HTTP and ICY. So Shoutcast need proxy / restream HTTP stream to HTTPS Server. Whereas Icecast Support SSL using custom Icecast configurations which need dedicated or VPS server.

Are you using HTTP Radio Stream providers?
Do you need HTTPS Radio Stream for Icecast and Shoutcast?

We have solution for HTTPS Secure Radio Streaming

Subscribe now $2.5 / month per stream and get HTTPS Secure Radio Stream address that forwards to your existing HTTP Radio streaming address and make your Radio Stream HTTPS compliant.

RadioForge will provide you “HTTPS Secure Streams” for your existing HTTP Radio Stream URL. You just need to subscribe our “HTTPS Secure Streams” service. Then we will provide you new HTTPS Radio Stream URL for Radio Stream Server on HTTP.

RadioForge support ALL version of Radio Streaming Servers

– Shoutcast Version #1
– Shoutcast Version #2
– Icecast Version #2

Request a Quote for RadioSSL – HTTPS Secure Radio Streams

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— HTML5 Player ♫ ♪ (@HTML5MP3Player) September 26, 2018

Radio Icecast Analytics Statistics Push Access Log #Piwik @matomo_org #SaturdayMotivation https://t.co/1FOSy7wv2G pic.twitter.com/58ylHyQ6h4

— HTML5 Player ♫ ♪ (@HTML5MP3Player) June 16, 2018

Upload Icecast Server Access Log to Remote Server #Icecast #Analytics #SaturdayMotivation #YouMadeMe https://t.co/1FOSy7wv2G pic.twitter.com/4Cq113jDfz

— HTML5 Player ♫ ♪ (@HTML5MP3Player) June 16, 2018

# curl -X POST -F ‘log=@/var/log/icecast2/access.log’ http://remote-server-ip/logs/upload.php

PHP $_FILES
………..

Array(
“log”: array(
“name” => “access.log”
“type” => “application/octet-stream”,
“tmp_name” => “/tmp/phpXpTKre”,
“error” => 0,
“size” => 4287878
)
)

PHP $_FILES json_encode
…………………..

{“log”:{“name”:”access.log”,”type”:”application\/octet-stream”,”tmp_name”:”\/tmp\/phpXpTKre”,”error”:0,”size”:4287878}}

Install EZStream on Ubuntu
# apt-get update && apt-get -y install ezstream

Make MP3 Playlist for Icecast AutoDJ
# /usr/bin/find /usr/share/nginx/html/radio-autodj/songs/ -name “*.mp3” > /usr/share/nginx/html/radio-autodj/playlist.m3u

# chmod 0755 /usr/share/nginx/html/radio-autodj/ez.xml

Start EZStream with Icecast AutoDJ mountpoint
# /usr/bin/ezstream -v -v -c /usr/share/nginx/html/radio-autodj/ez.xml &

Radio Icecast MP3 Uploader for AutoDJ @playlist #ThursdayThoughts #Wordpress #plugin #radio #icecast #ezstream #autodj #m3u rc.local https://t.co/7z18deJK7i pic.twitter.com/TsjsQZN14Q

— HTML5 Player ♫ ♪ (@HTML5MP3Player) June 7, 2018

Live Radio Schedule Table Data Edit Delete using Tabledit Plugin in PHP #Radio #Schedule #enjoymore #WednesdayMotivation https://t.co/NytHDfoSTQ pic.twitter.com/5xQyNy8ELL

— HTML5 Player ♫ ♪ (@HTML5MP3Player) May 23, 2018

If you are thinking about How much data does the Internet radio use?

You can use Internet Radio Bandwidth Calculator to calculate Daily / Weekly / Monthly uses. It will give you Estimated Bandwidth Usage for Radio Stream.

For example 128Kbps Bitrate, One Hour Time and 10 Listeners you need 0.55 GB (562.50 MB) Internet Data.

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MP3 Database for Songs playing on Radio Server

– ID
– Title
– Artist
– Duration
– Year
– Style
– Commentary
– Composer
– Album
– Image

Radio Live Now Playing Database

– ID
– Current Playing Title
– Play Date
– Start Time
– Listeners
– Radio Station ID
– IP Address

Icecast Shoutcast Metadata API
Icecast Shoutcast Metadata provides a very simple API for retrieving current StreamTitle for Shoutcast and Icecast Streams. You can use the API by making a GET request

(Icecast Metadata)
http://API-Server-IP/metadata/icecast.php?url=http://icecast-server-ip:port/

(Shoutcast Metadata)
http://API-Server-IP/metadata/shoutcast.php?url=http://shoutcast-server-ip:port/

NowPlaying Radio Metadata Table

Radio Icecast / Shoutcast Database

Metadata Panel will allow spreadsheet / table for download using the database metadata query.

Radio Icecast / Shoutcast CSV Download

Metadata Panel also allow to download other file format like XML, JSON, TXT etc.

MP3 Song Info metadata playing on Radio Server

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RadioForge TuneIn API allow users to connect their radio stream with current playing metadata to the TuneIn Radio API, Radio Users can grow online radio station faster (Increase Listener Base by up to 500%).

RadioForge TuneIn API works with SHOUTcast v1, SHOUTcast v2 and Icecast KH – Any Provider!

TuneIn API
http://tunein.com/broadcasters/api/

Create a New Station
http://tunein.com/syndication/new/?IsBroadcaster=true

TuneIn StationId
http://tunein.com/radio/tuneinstation-s######/
Your station ID would be ‘s######’.

# Update the song now playing on a station
GET http://air.radiotime.com/Playing.ashx?partnerId=<Id>partnerKey=<Key>id=<StationId>title=<Title>artist=<Artist>

TuneIn team normally review your submission and will send you a confirmation email within 3-5 business days.