Today, our internet radio tool Nicecast is being retired from active development. Nicecast is no longer available for purchase, and we do not plan any further updates. Nicecast will be supported on MacOS 10.10 through 10.13 until the end of 2018, after which it will be fully deprecated. Nicecast was one of Rogue Amoeba’s earliest apps, first released way back in 2003, and receiving more than sixty updates since then. ![]() Soon after Audio Hijack provided the ability to record any audio on the Mac, users asked us to make it possible to broadcast any audio to the world. At the time, it was very difficult to create an online radio station. So it was that we decided to join our powerful audio capture with a simple user interface on top of the open-source command-line icecast MP3 streaming server. With Nicecast, even novices could get started streaming audio from their Macs to listeners around the globe. In short order, Nicecast users were providing hundreds of different streams for the world. Hobbyists were able to live out their DJ fantasies, while terrestrial radio stations could easily provide online access to their content as well. It was very exciting, and we improved the app significantly in the first few years. However, Nicecast never gained widespread popularity, and thus has always been a junior player in our product lineup. As well, after a brief ascendancy, internet radio has not continued to grow. While it is certainly still in use today, it is small niche compared to the promise it originally showed. The vast majority of listeners rock out with streaming music services like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and many others. Stability: very stable))) taking into consideration the absence of features and functionality.Our customers are best served when we optimize our limited resources, and so the time has come to put Nicecast out to pasture. ![]() Usability: Hard to use some hiden very deep from common users Icecast2 feaures. But today it's not enough.Īppearence: nothing changed since fist versions It's like an iPhone firmware 1.0: it was really cool in 2007, letting you make calls, write sms (no mms) and scroll contact list. Let's mention that we' chosen macs for their ease of use and intuitive interface. I believe, somewhere in logs there should be an info of max listeners, but again it's a kind of voodoo magic to find and organize this information. Nicecast shows only current number of connected listeners. More and more windows software provides great statistics about listeners: max/min/avg of all connections and unique listeners per hour/day/week and so on, geographical location of listeners and other stuff. No! Wrong! Built-in Icacast2 server supports it's features, but to use them you should perform some dark rituals like openening application's contents and editing configuration files with coding and changing scripts. Nicecast supports some Icecast2 server features like intros and some others. Nicecast does not have this feature also. Multistreaming gives people a choice in desired sound quality. I'm watching at '2013' on my calendar now. Icecast2 server got AAC streamming support in 2004. But nowadays people prefer HE AAC streams (32 or 64 kbit/s) for listening on mobile devices with expensive traffic. But now, as it was mentioned above, Nicecast is now out of trend. Nicecast was really an exciting application. Nicecast is perfect for every type of audio broadcasting - try it out today.īy Anonymous reviewed on January 28, 2013 Want to broadcast your band's next gig? Just plug in a cable from the mixer to your laptop, and run Nicecast. Broadcast events live or host a call-in show - anything you can plug into your Mac can also be broadcast out. Radio on your Macintosh has never been this easy or this much fun. The included VoiceOver effect lets you insert radio-style commentary, right between songs. You can use an audio player like iTunes to DJ hour after hour of your favorite music or just to let your friends hear that new song you've been working on. All you need is a streaming MP3 player and you'll be grooving to your favorites all the time. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow you to listen to your iTunes Music Library from anywhere in the world! By setting up a Nicecast stream broadcasting iTunes, you can listen to your music from anywhere in the world, on a Mac, a PC, or even a Linux machine. ![]() Broadcast to the world, or just across your house. Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X.
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