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Does somebody knows of a streaming server which i can use for streaming audio, and, the most important, that i can use a remote source for live streaming ?

We want to setup a news station (we're a university project) and we would like to stream from our website every day during one hour. But we're not in the same physical location where the server (with the good internet connection) is. So we'd need to connect from our house, just one person to use his microphone, mp3, whatever and send the audio from there to the server which will use this source as the source for any user which wants to connect. Audio quality is very "basic" we expect just like 15 kbps which should be more than enough by now (teamspeak uses 5kbps).

Also, which would be the best way to connect for users ? a flash player ? a wm plugin ? i know most of the linux based servers use mp4 and ogg, which client coudl be used ? (worst case would be to use shoutcast as server and have users use winamp to listen. But even in this case we don't know how to use the remote (live) source as the one to broadcast).

Could be either linux or window. Be it free or cheap please, below US$ 100. Thanks !

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Shopping and Product recommendation questions are off-topic. Please read (again) the FAQ. – EEAA Sep 7 '12 at 3:41
As far as i understand the FAQ, it was designed to prevent people from asking question for buying products such as "is this camera ok ?" which someday in the future will not exist. I can't imagine how asking for which good server exists for audio streaming from a live remote source becomes an off-topic question. These kind of question will help multiple users in need of the same kind of guidance now and for many, many years. Usually these projects such as pulseaudio, icecast, don't disappear in a couple of years, which is what the faq tries to prevent. – Mr X Colombia Sep 7 '12 at 3:45
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Please see the blog post linked from that line in the FAQ. – EEAA Sep 7 '12 at 3:48

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Generally these questions are off topic (like ErikA (and Jeff Atwood) said) - the available software changes too frequently for us to be able to maintain a viable list and the answers (even this one) will be outdated almost as soon as they're printed.

(It's also a question that lends itself to becoming a list-of-things, which tends to lead to sucky answers).

Having said all that I have to zot this question as off-topic, but as a fan of shall we say "underground broadcasting" I don't want you to go away empty handed -- here's a sucky list-of-things answer as a consolation prize.

ShoutCast is perhaps the oldest and most venerable of the broadcasting tools.
You can get it working on pretty much any OS. AAC encoding works out of the box (free), MP3 costs some coin. It's been around a while and has pretty good documentation.

IceCast is a popular ShoutCast competitor, and there are some decent tutorials on getting it running.

Apple has a whole mini-site dedicated to HTTP Live Streaming which may be of interest

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This About.com page may also be helpful - it's a far more comprehensive list. – voretaq7♦ Sep 7 '12 at 4:30

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