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#CONFIGURE NICECAST SERVER INSTALL#
In the olden days, you needed to install a DynDNS client on your computer to detect IP changes and update the DynDNS service.
Services like DynDNSÂ solve this problem for you, detecting changes to your address and hiding them behind a consistent address, like. But you don’t want to have to keep track of your ever-changing IP address.
Most home users get a dynamic IP from their ISP, which means you might have to connect to an audio stream at a different IP every day. Get a Consistent Address to Access Your Home Computer from Outside
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That’s a matter of router configuration, which comes next, but be sure to read the relevant sections of the Nicecast Help manual carefully if you run into trouble. There’s a “Check Connection” button on the Share tab in Nicecast which you’ll definitely want to use after starting your broadcast, since it will test whether your stream is accessible to the outside world. I set it up for high-quality 256kbps streaming, since much of my audio is Apple Lossless. Nicecast needs little explanation – just install it, configure it to hijack the stream from iTunes, and check all of its configuration tabs.
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 Technically, you could do this for free with Icecast alone, but Nicecast makes things WAY easier. Nicecast costs $60, but is free to try with streams lasting one hour or less.
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For that, I use Rogue Amoeba’s excellent Nicecast app, which knows how to hijack audio from iTunes and pump it out as a protected stream (technically, Nicecast is a friendly wrapper around the open source Icecast broadcast package). Screen Sharing will let you control your desktop remotely, but it doesn’t do audio! For that, you’ll need a broadcast server to create your own personal radio station. Ignore the IP addresses it offers for access – there’s a better way, which we’ll get to in a bit. Click Computer Settings and select “May control with password” and create a control password. This will allow authenticated VNC or Screen Sharing clients to connect to and control your computer from other machines. Go to System Preferences | Sharing and enable the Screen Sharing option.
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So what if you just want to be able to listen to music on a Mac at home from work? It is possible, but it’ll take some setup work, and 60 bucks (which is one-time fee, and money you won’t have to pay to Apple, Pandora, rdio, MOG or Spotify). Apple won’t take my money to solve this problem. It’s the answer to my prayers, but off-limits. Shame, too – I’d happily pay 2x or 3x the subscription price to get Match working. For those of us with legit collections of 50k or 75k tracks, Match isn’t an option. Of course, iTunes Match is meant to solve exactly this problem, but Match has a fatal flaw that makes it unusable by the people who need it the most – its 25,000 song limit. You may have no intention of sharing your music collection with the world, or of running your own little public radio station from home, but you simply can’t connect to an iTunes library from another network. It’s a well-known bummer that the iTunes “Share” feature only works over your local LAN.