Quick Start

Uninstalling Broadcaster

System Requirements

Troubleshooting and FAQ

Broadcasting from a playlist

Broadcasting live

Providing more information about your station

Adjusting Connection Settings

Monitoring Listener Activity

Using Webstream

Testing your microphone input

Linking your station on your web page

Broadcasting from a playlist

You must be connected to the Internet to broadcast. Only live broadcasts are listed on the directory.

1. Assemble your song files
   Before you begin a broadcast, your song files (MP3s, .wavs, .aiffs, etc.) should be arranged into directories that can be easily accessed by you. If you intend to insert a song from CDs into your Playlist, have a CD in your primary CD-ROM drive with others waiting close by. Using the line-in feature with a mic will allow you to intro songs or chat while you smoothly change CDs.
2. Add files to your Playlist
   The Playlist is a list of songs that are ready to be accessed by the RadioDestiny Broadcaster 3. You can save each Playlist that you create as a file and load it up at another time. To access the Playlist menu, click on the yellow Playlist button.
   
   
   
   The Playlist window can be detached and stretched for convenient editing.
   
   
   Once the Playlist window is open, you will have several ways of adding files to the playlist. You can add individual files by clicking the Add File button. You can add the entire contents of a folder of audio files by clicking on the Add Folder button. Or, you can load a previously created Playlist by clicking on Load. Another way of doing this is to simply drag and drop files, folders or playlists onto the black portion of the Playlist window.
   
   Creating a series of different Playlists will allow you to easily and conveniently keep your content fresh. The Playlist saving and sorting functionality will be built out in future versions of the software. Because the RadioDestiny Broadcaster will play playlists from the Destiny Media Player and other third party players such as Winamp (.lst, .m3u), we recommend using your Destiny Media Player to do your playlist editing. For example, the Destiny Media Player includes the extra functionality of including sub-directories when a folder/directory is added. The Destiny Media Player also has expanded sorting and randomizing features.

3. Decide how Broadcaster plays the Playlist Default ('top to bottom')
   If you just load up a Playlist without pressing the Random button, Broadcaster will pick the first song at the top of your Playlist. After that song is finished, it will go on to the one below it until it reaches the end. Then, if the Repeat button has already been pressed, it will go back to the top and start again.
   
   
   
   Random - If you press random the Broadcaster will pick a song at random in your playlist regardless of the order. If you have repeat selected the Broadcaster will continue selecting random songs even after it has played every song in the Playlist.
   
   
   Beta Note: At this time the randomize feature does not work on a purely random basis and has been known to repeat songs before finishing with the entire playlist.

4. Changing order in the Playlist
   The Playlist enables you to change the order of songs in the Playlist using a few methods. You can click down on a song title name and then drag it up to a spot and release it to insert it into another spot in the Playlist. Or, you can highlight the song or a group of songs and use the move up and move down buttons to shift the songs one space at a time. Removing songs To remove songs from the playlist, hilight the song or songs and then click the Remove button.
   
   

5. Saving the Playlist:
   After spending many minutes (or hours!) creating a playlist you will want to save it. Click on the Save button.
   
   Save the file in the Destiny folder or some other convenient location so that you know where to Load it from later. Use descriptive names for your list to easily distinguish from other lists. Playlist saving image: the dialogue box above shows part of the Playlist saving process.
   
   
   Note: It's important to know that a Playlist does not include the songs themselves. A Playlist is a set of pointers to the files. If you create a Playlist and then move the songs from their original locations, the Playlist will not know where to find them and will skip that slot.

   (As mentioned above) The Playlist saving and sorting functionality will be built out in future versions of the software. Because the RadioDestiny Broadcaster will play playlists from the Destiny Media Player and other third party players such as Winamp (.lst, .m3u), we recommend using your Destiny Media Player to do your playlist editing. To learn more about the Destiny Media Player Playlist building, visit THIS PAGE.
   
   
6. Broadcast! Once you have created or loaded a playlist, go to the main interface and click the Begin button!