Sam Broadcaster
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SAM Broadcaster is a professional computer-based internet broadcasting application by spacialaudio. It can also be used with PCI Max Ultra hardware (provided by the same company) to broadcast on medium range FM radio. It is highly customizable and versatile. It also includes web pages that can be published so listeners can request songs from the internet.
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[edit] Technical Details
[edit] Server types:
- SHOUTcast, originally from Nullsoft (the publisher of Winamp)
- Live365
- Windows Media
- IceCast (v1 and v2)
- P2P Streamer
[edit] SAM Broadcaster can encode in:
- Standard ACM mp3
- mp3pro
- Ogg/Vorbis
- Windows Media v9
SAM Broadcaster uses a database to store its song information and can use MySQL, FireBird, PostgreSQL, or MS SQL database systems.
[edit] Versions
- SAM2 was the first popular version of the software and introduced many to the world of internet broadcasting.
- SAM3 is the current version with many improvements over SAM2.
- SAM4 is currently in beta testing, and will include AAC+ support, and other upgrades over SAM3.