How easy will audio/music streaming be in TeamSpeak 3?

[jlt1087]

Is there any plugins like Vent offers to stream music into a server? That would be totally awesome. I can't wait until it's out. Only a few more hours.

[Sythith]

This plugin would be so awesome. Like just having a chill out music channel that streams some tunes, great idea!

So is there?

[jlt1087]

I agree. I can do it through TeamSpeak 2 with a physical 3.5mm cable with the jack on both ends, I forget what the cable is called. Anyways, I put it into my mic input and put the other end into my audio output for headsets. Since I use a USB headset, I can use that cable to shoot output right back into my computer as an input. It works quite well. I can hook up my iPod to it too, even the radio.

[g 859]

I hope it's easier that manually changing my stereo mix on/off each time I want to stream music. If it is, I'll be extremely happy

[HoschY1987]

music streaming is already possible with TS3. just use the search function :P

[FoV`Silver]

Z_V, I'm setting up a TS3 for my clan, how do I stream music? I assume you might now how being you know where the codec is.

[Zero Visibility]

Ummmmm...... jlt my post was not aimed at you. LOL. It was in response to nightlore. I just forget to use the quote feature. My bad.

[jlt1087]

I will make a video explaining how to stream music into TeamSpeak 3. If you have 10.00 dollars (USD), you can make this happen. I'll post it on here when I make the video.

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[TBK0000]

Will you or will you not make the video?

Or do you need to get paid to do it?

[jlt1087]

Will you or will you not make the video?

Or do you need to get paid to do it?

By 10.00 dollars, I'm talking about the physical stero cable that you need (or will need to buy) to make it happen. I don't make videos to get paid.

[FoV`Silver]

So I can't stream, I'm gonna have to break out the ol' stereo cables?

[TBK0000]

Writing a plugin will be easier, then a mini-jack cable.

[BGen_JD8]

I set up teamspeak3 on a seperate computer from my main computer on my home network. Then I log into my game clans TS3 server with that computer (using a different name like "mystream" or something other than my normal TS3 login name) and stream from my winamp media player on that computer. It's really easy to do and it sounds great. There is a bit of tweeking to do in order to make it sound good but it works well with just a bit of fine tuning. It's important that the channel you are streaming in be set to a high bandwidth so that the sound quality is the best it can be though it will work with low bandwidth as well (just less quality). It is also useful to adjust the equalizer on winamp to get the sound just right.

On the second computer you just need to set the capture device, in TS3, to the playback device instead of a microphone then set it to continuous transmission instead of push to talk or voice activation. You could also set the capture device to line-in and plug in a seperate line level device if you wanted but a media player with a playlist works just fine. In other words, there is no need for cables and ipods if you have a media player and and know how to create playlists.

If the second computer has speakers and is anywhere near the computer you will be using to communicate on TS3 you will need to disable its speakers or turn them down so that they don't create a feedback loop when you key up the mic on your main computer. It's also a good idea to turn the voice and soundpack levels all the way to quiet on the streaming computer (lowest setting). This is because even though you are streaming from the second computer it is still hearing the client voices and voicepack messages. It will reproduce them and stream them back along with whatever sounds you are playing. This will cause an echo for the clients which will get annoying for them. If you turn those two settings all the way to quiet the computer will not reproduce client voices and soundpack messages and stream them back to the clients.

If you want to control the media player on the second computer from your main computer or even let other people control it you can get a program like Browseamp. (Which works with winamp but there may be other similar programs) This is useful as it allows you to change the music you are streaming from a remote location and it lets you set permissions so that you can control who is doing what and when.

Hope this helps.

[CHB68]

hmmm.......so there is no way to link a simple webradio to a TS3 channel ?

Very very sad.....

[areyna]

Try the Virtual Cables from Virtual Audio Cable(VAC) some time ago I use them, when i was starting my Web-radio.

This alternative is to have one computer with the radio stream and 2 TS3 Clients (One for the radio stream and the other for your personal use).

With the (VAC) you can set 1 client that will have as input audio the music from your MP3 player (Winamp, WMP, etc) and the second TS3 client can be set to the Mic.

Is a option, I'm sure you can download a demo from the website, to help you make the test. Hope this help you.

Regards,
Areyna.