I am interested in playing my own music on my land. I have firestorm and have no idea where to start

[superscotty888]

i am interested in playing my own music on my land. i have firestorm and have googled it and can't find a good step by step guide. could someone assist me?

[Alwin Alcott]

there are two ways to take your question

 

first is easiest... go to about land/parcel details, tab sound and add a stream adress there from the station you like. This will only be possible when you own the land, when you rent it's possible you'll have to ask your landlord/manager for assistence.

 

second... really your own stream... is a lot more.

you have to set up broadcasting from your pc, a bit long to write that all down, i'd advice you to use google "broadcast stream" there are many tutorials on the www for that, some simple others with real dedicated software.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

Here are the steps

• Buy or get free software that you can use to broadcast your music on the internet.  Some will only let you choose and play one song at a time, while other's have the ability to make up play lists of music. Google where to get the various software and be sure to research it's abilities, reliability and costs before choosing. If you plan on maybe DJ'ing in SL, get the best one you can afford for the most flexibility and sound quality.  A lot of DJ's use SAM which is probably the most expensive choice, but also the one professionals and internet radio stations use.  (DON'T accept free versions of SAM as you will violate copyright laws and will get in trouble with the law in RL if you are caught.)
• Use Search or look on Marketplace for Shoutcast stream rentals.  Choose the number of listeners you want.  That can be 10 to 100 or more.  The more you have the more it will cost.  If you choose 10 and 11 people are on your land, then the last one there won't hear anything.  So choose a number that will cover as many people as are likely to be on your land at one time and add a few more just in case.
• Set up your software with the stream info you get from the rental compay.  You'll have to see your software instructions to see how to do this if you don't know how.
• Plug in the URL the stream rental gave you into your land tools under Sounds.
• Start broadcasting from your PC.
• Enjoy your music.

Note that you will have to have your PC on all the time if you want people to hear the music when you aren't in SL. Alternatively you can rent a server and upload your music on it along with your software so you don't have to use your PC.  Some stream rental companies will rent you a stream with server space.  Of course that's going to cost more.

There are classes offered sometimes in SL to teach you how to stream.  Some stream rental companies will help you get set up too.

See this wiki page and the links in it for details http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Streaming_Music

[Alwin Alcott]

Amethyst points you right on the use of illegal versions of Sam, or other software... but keep also in mind you can not play music you have on CD or any other storage without paying rights to broadcast ... just buying a CD/DVD or mp3 does NOT include the right to make it public by broadcasting.

Now you will say its not public because it's on your land, but that's not true, you broadcast it to the whole internet worldwide, everybody can log on your stream and listen... your land on sl only hooks on that stream.

 

Depends a lot where you are but some countries hunt actively on illegal broadcasts or spreading music that's not legaly bought/used.