please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message altacast main window of altacast original author s ed zaleski developer s altacast.com initial release april 2001 ; 15 years ago 2001 04 as oddcast 1 october 30 2011 2011 10 30 as edcast 2 september 3 2012 2012 09 03 as altacast stable release standalone dsp 1.0 radiodj plugin 2.5.5 standalone dsp september 3 2012 ; 4 years ago 2012 09 03 radiodj plugin march 19 2016 ; 6 months ago 2016 03 19 development status active written in standalone dsp visual c radiodj plugin . net framework operating system microsoft windows platform x86 x64 size windows 2.2 mb type streaming media license free and open source gpl standalone dsp proprietary radiodj plugin 3 website www.altacast.com oddsock type non profit industry internet radio software founded chicago il 60067 headquarters chicago il united states key people ed zaleski founder number of employees 1 website www.altacast.com altacast formerly known as edcast and oddcast is a free and open source audio encoder that can be used to create internet streams of varying types . many independent and commercial broadcasters use altacast to create internet radio stations such as those listed on the icecast loudcaster and shoutcast station directories . contents 1 development 2 features 3 see also 4 references 5 external links development edit the original streaming software oddcast was developed from 2000 to 2010 . the official site at oddsock.org hosted streaming media tools which included oddcast stream transcoder icecast station browser plugin song requester plugin and do something plugin . 4 in late november 2010 oddsock.org was shut down . 5 edcast a fork of oddcast is being updated and hosted at club rio . in early 2012 development of edcast was moved to google code and sourceforge . as of october 30 2011 the latest stable version is 3.33.2011.1026 and the latest beta version is 3.37.2011.1214 . in september 2012 a second fork altacast was released . the standalone & dsp edition are derived from gpl software and is available on github 6 while the radiodj edition is written in . net framework and developed separately . a version 2.0 for the standalone & dsp edition that will be shoutcast v2 compatible is planned for the future . although altacast is available as a plugin for radiodj . altacast is not supported by the developer of radiodj due to legal issues . 7 features edit altacast is supported on windows . it will run in conjunction with various media players compatible with winamp plugins such as aimp jetaudio kmplayer mediamonkey musicbee and foobar2000 as well as a standalone encoder . altacast standalone & dsp can stream to icecast and shoutcast servers in ogg vorbis and ogg flac out of the box . mp3 aac and aac support can be added via the lame encoder lame enc.dll faac encoder libfaac.dll and ct aacplus encoder enc aacplus.dll obtainable from winamp 5.61 8 respectively . adjustable settings for each encoder include bitrate for mp3 aac ogg vorbis quality for aac ogg vorbis sample rate 22050hz or 44100hz and channels parametric stereo is available for aac up till 56kbps . shoutcast v2 is currently not officially supported in altacast standalone & dsp . however it is possible to connect to stream id no. 1 of a shoutcast v2 server in legacy v1 mode . as a temporary workaround the shoutcast dsp 1.9.2 plugin for winamp compatible media players may be used to broadcast to alternate mount points e.g stream id no. 2 . shoutcast v2 and opus support is available in v1 .4 onwards in the plugin . see also edit list of internet radio stations list of streaming media systems references edit oddcast archive.org changelog edcast reborn oddsock s edcast given new life google project hosting archive.org altacast source code and clarification oddsock.org tools internet archive wayback machine the time has come for me to close oddsock.org dustydrifter altacast github radiodj altacast not supported issue 72 edcast reborn will edcast support other file types google project hosting external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title altacast & oldid 744153025 categories digital audiointernet radio in the united statesorganizations based in chicagostreaming softwareinternet radio software2001 softwarehidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2008all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata 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