Stream your Shoutcast streams to Blackberry users

Posted on by Admin

I am pleased to announce that MixStream now supports streaming to Blackberry users with no need for additional plugins or complicated instructions – your listeners can now tune in on their Blackberry at the click of a link.

To test the system, please open your Blackberry browser and navigate to this page. When you click on the following link, it will open up the Blackberry player and play a 24k Shoutcast stream:

http://usa1-pn.mixstream.net/8208.sdp

This service is now available on all Premium Shoutcast accounts and will soon be rolled out to Value Shoutcast and possibly free services.

To access your Blackberry stream, please use the following link format:

http://[SERVER ID].mixstream.net/[PORT].sdp

I am also looking in to adding more features for mobile users as mobile technology is becoming more advanced and a lot of station owners are keen on making it as easy as possible to provide streaming content to their users.

Posted in Announcements, Stream Servers, Stream-servers 1 Comment

[potential slowness] USA2-TRANS (transcoder)

Posted on by Admin

The transcoding server is running a little slow at the moment, we’ve had no complaints of audio problems but you may find that the control panel is slow for transcoders.

I’ll work on this by setting up a new server for the transcoders and transferring a few over – this will cause a short outage of a few seconds which will just cause a skip in the audio for the moved transcoders.

Posted in USA2-TRANS

Premium network added to new CP

Posted on by Admin

I’m pleased to announce that all premium network Shoutcast servers have been added to the new control panel at http://streampanel.mixstream.net/

If you have Shoutcast servers on the premium network, then you can log in with the same details that you use for your billing account. You will now see all of your servers under a single control panel.

The overall aim of the new control panel is to bring all streaming services ‘under one roof’ so that there are not multiple panels to log in to for customers that are hosted on different value/premium servers.

There are some limitations:

  • If your billing username(email) is different to that of your normal control panel login, then the servers won’t be displayed. If this is the case then please open a support ticket to get your account updated.
  • The new panel will not yet work for resellers and the customers of resellers. A separate panel will be made for this.

If you find any problems with the new panel then please open a support ticket.

Posted in Announcements, Premium Network

[maintenance] database changes

Posted on by Admin

We are making some changes to the database used for storing Shoutcast  and AutoDJ server settings in order to start the changeover to our new control panel.

Date: 04/05/2010

Time: 4PM, for approx 15 minutes

The premium network control panel will be unavailable during this time. This will not affect any streams.

If the unavailability of the control panel is causing you any problems then please open a support ticket and any changes or restarts will be made.

Posted in Premium Network