Question / Help I need an advise.

[hardliner_4]

Hello guys. I'm a beginner in this, so my questions might be simple.
Just yesterday I decided to start my radio streaming and registered a google cloud platform.
The idea is just a simple radio, when you make a playlist and the music is playing.
But I do not know how to set the audio settings from the machine, cause the audio device is absent on that. I think it's possible when the audio caption would be straight out of the system not from devices. If you know how to do that the trouble will be solved.

Also I've seen a tutorial with using nginx, if honestly I didn't understand what is the sense to stream from your pc, when you have a virtual machine and you can install and run obs from that.
Please give me an advise, or tips about this.

My goal is to make a radio, which will play from the playlist 24/7. And I don't have to keep my pc turned on. That is all.

Thank you for an attention. I will be really happy if you can help me.
Thanks.

 

[koala]

A virtual machine is not suited as base for OBS Studio, because OBS relies on capturing audio from audio devices and requires GPU hardware for compositing video. In addition to that, OBS is a video streaming client. It's not made to broadcast audio only, it is made to composite and broadcast live video. OBS might not be the right tool for you.

 

[hardliner_4]

A virtual machine is not suited as base for OBS Studio, because OBS relies on capturing audio from audio devices and requires GPU hardware for compositing video. In addition to that, OBS is a video streaming client. It's not made to broadcast audio only, it is made to composite and broadcast live video. OBS might not be the right tool for you.

Thank you for reply.
Do you know another broadcasting programs for twitch or youtube, which would be better for this kinda streaming?
Thanks.

 

[koala]

Twitch and Youtube are video streaming services. If you intend to stream audio to these, you probably mean to send a static image as video and add your audio, and the viewer/listener throws away the video part and only listens to the audio. But technically, that's not really audio streaming. It's still video streaming.

A tool that is made to simply play (or stream) a playlist of media files is probably VLC.

By the way, you don't really need a special audio broadcast tool or server to serve files for a playlist only. Upload your audio files to a web server and create a playlist that points to these files (file paths like this: http://my.server.example.org/directory/musicfile1.mp3). Your player will pull the files according to the playlist and play them.
Keep copyright in mind by doing this (uploading music to a web server and let it serve to the public).