Authhash tutorial updated

Late last year, Google Chrome made technical changes that effectively stopped Chrome users from being able to listen to Shoutcast V1 streams. It has been brought to our attention that Chrome now supports V1 again so web players will work in all browsers as they did previously.

Icecast is now available to Webcaster Plus users! Due to popular demand, we have added Icecast as an option for all Webcaster Plus users. You can log in and change over to Icecast, which is in the Server Type list under Server Settings. There is no extra charge and you can switch back to Shoutcast…

We are currently in the process of updating Shoutcast 2.6.0 to 2.6.1. This includes several welcome improvements such as native HTTPS support (no proxy required) and the lifting of the 128k limit for streams listed on the Shoutcast YP. We will be updating servers over the next few weeks, if you are using Shoutcast 2.6…

Some  versions of SAM Broadcaster don’t support statistic relays for Shoutcast V2 servers, however there is a workaround for this. In the Statistic Relay settings, it will ask for your server address/host, port and password. Enter your address/host and password as normal. The port should then be entered in the following format: 8000/stats?sid=1 Change 8000…

We will be performing important maintenance on the following servers in order to improve stability over the next week starting from tomorrow (29/09/2017) 29/09/2017 s1, s2, s4, s5, s6 02/10/2017 s7, s8, s9, s11, s12 03/10/2017 s13, s14, s15, s17, s40 04/10/2017 s43, s44, s45, s46 Each server will experience downtime of around 15-30 minutes…

We have now added SHOUTcast 2.6 as an option in the user area. We recommend using this version if you have a ‘new style’ authhash. If you need to update from 2.5 then log into the user area and scroll down to Server Settings > Server Type. You will now see the option for SHOUTcast…