Yes I checked the default record settings in sound and audio and the USB mic was the default, I have changed it to the sound blaster audigy 2 and will try it again tomorrow. Thanks again for all the help.
Rick ======= Visit my webpage and podcast feed at www.blind-geek-zone.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:45 AM Subject: RE: Shoutcast help needed Hi Rick, aha, that would indeed explain it. Winamp will use the default sound card, so once the USB microphone is connected, Windows treats this is a sound card in its own right. It may have worked to keep the USB plugged in and to go into Control panel and select the other sound card as the default. But anyway, very good to hear you have it sussed now. Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Rick Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 25 May 2007 3:40 p.m. To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Shoutcast help needed Hi Everyone, Ok finally figured it all out. I had a USB microphone plugged into the system. So everytime I switched the input mode from winamp to soundcard it was using the USB microphone as the soundcard. I stumbled upon this when I forgot and left the microphone switch on and was playing with the input settings while streaming and heard my voice from the USB microphone. I unplugged it and the SoundBlaster took over and everything works just fine. Oviously the winamp shoutcast plug-in can't handle more than one sound card as the combo box only says winamp or sound card for the inputs and I was not able to select from the USB microphone and the SoundBlaster. I plugged in a USB sound card after I started streaming to get Jaws to switch to it instead of the sound blaster. So all my problems were due to the USB microphone. That's really crazy isn't it? Now to see if I can teach my client to do this. Thank you everyone that gave me advice, especially Jonathan that got me going in the right direction tonight. Rick ======= Visit my webpage and podcast feed at www.blind-geek-zone.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessica Pitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list." <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:01 PM Subject: Re: Shoutcast help needed you have to get jaws of that sound card somehow. On 5/24/07, Rick Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Yes I just went in to Goldwave and did a test recording. I heard Jaws > speaking and I heard winamp playing it's audio stream and my voice from > the > microphone when I played the recording back. > > Rick > > > ======= > > Visit my webpage and podcast feed at www.blind-geek-zone.net > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:37 PM > Subject: RE: Shoutcast help needed > > > Hi Rick, and if you use a program like Sound Forge of Goldwave, does What > You hear work as you would expect? Because it sounds like you're doing > everything right and that the sound card may be the issue. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 25 May 2007 1:12 p.m. > To: PC audio discussion list. > Subject: Re: Shoutcast help needed > > Yes I'm sending silence. The number of bytes does go up so I can tell the > data is streaming. I even get the right header for the song on the other > end but all I get in the stream is silence. > when I set the input mode back to winamp my audio stream is heard again. > > Rick > > > ======= > > Visit my webpage and podcast feed at www.blind-geek-zone.net > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:55 PM > Subject: RE: Shoutcast help needed > > > Hi Rick, when this happens, can you tell if you are streaming silence? > That > is to say does the number of bytes sent in the Shoutcast Plug-in window > keep > increasing? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 25 May 2007 12:49 p.m. > To: PC audio discussion list. > Subject: Re: Shoutcast help needed > > Hi Jonathan, > > I'm not a broadcaster so unfortunately this isn't all straight forward to > me. I have seen the settings that you are talking about and have tried > switching the input for the plug in to soundcard and then setting up the > volume control for recording to what you hear and setting the playback > microphone to unmuted. When I do this however I hear nothing from the > server. No audio stream and no voice from the microphone. I've been > working on this for a week now and am banging my head against the wall. I > simply don't know how to get this done via winamp and the shoutcast > plugin. > I have no problems getting the audio stream to work. That part is > actually > pretty simple. But getting the voice over simply isn't working no matter > what I try. > > Thanks for your help, > > Rick > > > ======= > > Visit my webpage and podcast feed at www.blind-geek-zone.net > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:35 PM > Subject: RE: Shoutcast help needed > > > Hi Rick, this is really very straight forward. The only issue may be if > the > person concerned is using software speech through the same sound card that > the material to be broadcast is coming from. > > In the Shoutcast DSP plug-in for Winamp, there are two modes. One sends > data > direct from Winamp itself. In other words, if you play an MP3 file, then > the > MP3 data is transcoded to the bit rate you select, and then sent over the > Internet. This is nice because you can minimise Winamp and use your sound > card for other things while streaming music. It doesn't facilitate talking > over music though. > > The other mode simply broadcasts whatever is coming through the sound > card. > So all you have to do is select this mode, select "what you hear" or > "stereo > mix" or whatever the feature on that particular sound card is called that > records what is being played through the sound card, and go for it. If the > broadcaster is using a simple microphone plugged into the microphone > socket, > then the microphone will need to be unmuted in playback controls when > speaking. While there are controls that do this for you in the Winamp DSP, > a > simple way to handle this is to leave the control unmuted and use a > microphone with a switch. These can often be found on analogue headsets > and > some of them sound surprisingly acceptable. > > Now if software speech is coming through the same sound card, then either > a > second sound card or external synthesiser must be obtained, or you'd need > to > go to StationPlaylist Studio which is a fantastic solution and highly > accessible. > > In the main menu archives you can still find a comprehensive series I did > on > Shoutcasting. > > Jonathan > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
