We provide free Shoutcast hosting for internet radio stations and individuals that are unable to use paid streaming services, or anyone that just wants to have a go at broadcasting their own radio shows. With our fast, reliable servers, you don't need to worry about your stream buffering when you get too many listeners for your connection to handle - we take care of the bandwidth requirements for you.
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Free listing on StationFinder All streams are listed on stationfinder.org as well as being featured on the free toolbar. www.StationFinder.org |
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Free Shoutcast server A free shoutcast server with a generous 1000 listener limit in up to CD quality 128k. |
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Free shout box Your listenes can chat with you and eachother in real time using our InstantChatBox. www.InstantChatbox.net |
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Free listener statistics See how many people are listening to your broadcast and where they are from. |
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Instant setup on accounts
If you don't have any "Internet streaming" experience, then don't worry - it's easy and FREE! You can be streaming within 10 minutes after installing the free streaming software.
Once you have signed up, you will receive an email with your server login details and a link to your radio stream webpage, which will be in the format sX.myradiostream.com/PORT.htm.
Coming soon: You will have the option to add a logo and change the look of your page.
Your webpage will contain an embedded Flash player which will start playing your stream within a few seconds of going on to the page. There will also be some links for those that prefer to listen using Winamp or Windows Media Player alone.
You can also add any or all of the following features to your webpage:
You will never have to pay for streaming from Free Stream Hosting.org - that would defeat the object ;)
We can provide free Shoutcast servers because we serve ads on the webpage for your station. All ads are text or image based - we don't put audio ads onto your stream. Our system depends on your listeners seeing our ads, if they don't then we have no income to pay our high server fees. It costs many £100s every month to run high bandwidth streaming servers. This is why we ask you to link your listeners to your stream webpage rather than offering a direct tune in link to the Shoutcast server.
Once your listeners have visited your station page, the stream will start through our flash player, however they do then have the option to use their preferred player (such as Winamp, Windows Media or Real).
Once your listener is tuned in using an external player, they can navigate away from your stream webpage and continue listening.
Yes, we offer a control panel where you can start/stop and make configuration changes to your free Shoutcast server.
All FreeStreamHosting users are now listed on the StationFinder.org toolbar and we are open to any suggestions on how we can improve the service.
That's great to hear, we offer very competitive rates. We don't allow the advertising of adult content or radio stations. We reserve the right to reject any advertising request as we deem appropriate.
We offer very competitive rates on advertising, and can target ads towards listeners or radio station owners individually.
Please contact us here for info on advertising and prices.
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