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Choosing the right audio format is important when starting an internet radio station. The format affects sound quality, bandwidth usage and whether your listeners can play the stream on their devices. The most common formats used for online radio are MP3, AAC, AAC+ and OGG. Each of them has different advantages, but for most broadcasters the choice is quite simple.

Starting your own internet radio station is easier than ever. You do not need an FM license, a professional studio or expensive broadcasting equipment. In most cases, you only need a stream hosting account, broadcasting software, audio content and a clear idea for your station. In this guide, we will explain how to create an online radio station, what tools you need and how Free-Shoutcast.com can help you get started.

In older versions of ShoutCast, especially when ShoutCast v1 was still widely supported, getting your station listed on Shoutcast.com was very straightforward. In most cases, all you had to do was set your stream server as public, and the listing process was handled automatically. However, this changed with newer ShoutCast versions.

As our user base grew, our legacy infrastructure - based on manually managed VPS instances - began to show its limits. We needed a way to scale quickly, improve uptime, and simplify operations. That’s when we turned to Kubernetes.

ShoutCast Starter plans are very popular because they are free of monthly charges. There are hundreds new streaming servers created every day. To make it possible and to ensure continuity of our service we needed to introduce some limitations in ShoutCast Starter plans. There are several possibilities described below why your servers could be disabled, all of them have been described in this article.

AutoDJ is a service that allows you to play music whole time without having turned on PC. You just need to upload your favorite music to our AutoDJ and it will play it for you. When the service is active and ready to use you just need to upload your audio files - it is quite simple to do - just need to use FTP software.