I have a need to stream audio from my PC over the net so I can listen to it on my phone as I am out and about. This will not be music as such, just whatever sound my pc is outputting at the time. This is so if I want I can listen to a youtube playlist as audio only to save bandwidth, or even sample a TV prog which is playing on my skybox, via a capture device into Line In, and listen to that. Streaming seems the way to go as I can just set the PC playing the audio and go out, rather than phaffing about making mp3's and loading them onto the phone.
I looked into this and Shoutcast seems to have lot of hits on youtube tutorials etc. One in particular suggested using a site called Listen2MyAudio to set up a host, and use a Winamp plugin to do the broadcasting. The Winamp plugin allows you to set the audo to be streamed as LINE IN, which is the crucial bit for me. However, as I looked into this it seemed to me this shoutcast/host thing may be an out of date process, as most of these guides were years old, and also I couldn't get the host website suggested to accept a new account, maybe cos the site is defunct?
So can anyone confirm this is still the way to do this or has all this been completely replaced by some new thing like Discord? As I say the key thing is being able to use my sound cards line in, or "What U hear" as the sound being output. Another key thing is it needs to be free. Suggestions of other methods/sites welcome.
I looked into this and Shoutcast seems to have lot of hits on youtube tutorials etc. One in particular suggested using a site called Listen2MyAudio to set up a host, and use a Winamp plugin to do the broadcasting. The Winamp plugin allows you to set the audo to be streamed as LINE IN, which is the crucial bit for me. However, as I looked into this it seemed to me this shoutcast/host thing may be an out of date process, as most of these guides were years old, and also I couldn't get the host website suggested to accept a new account, maybe cos the site is defunct?
So can anyone confirm this is still the way to do this or has all this been completely replaced by some new thing like Discord? As I say the key thing is being able to use my sound cards line in, or "What U hear" as the sound being output. Another key thing is it needs to be free. Suggestions of other methods/sites welcome.