CenotvaCast Basic Configuration
In this tutorial we will explain how to setup the CentovaCast control panel for shoutcast on the listen2myradio premium service.
When you signup for our hosting services you will receive a email with your CentovaCast username and password
With these details you can login to your control panel. The link to the control panel can be found under “Server Name”
Configuration
Once you are logged in you can start with the configuration right away
First of all you should go to “Configure Server”
On the first tab you can see some basic configuration details
•Stream title
The name of your stream or radio
•E-mail address
The email address on which you want to receive updates like server restarts, errors and music requests (if you use the script that comes with Centova, we will talk more about this later)
•Company/organization
If your radio is for a company or organization you can put its name here
•Website URL
Your radio’s website (if you happen to have one)
•Source password
This is your stream password, you use this password when you want to broadcast live using a shoutcast client (for a broadcasting tutorial click here)
•Administrator password
This is your CentovaCast password, can also be used for broadcasting
•Time zone
The time zone of the radio
•Character encoding
On this tab fill out the details and click “Update”If you want to use special characters in your titles or names you have to use the appropriate character encoding
On the next tab you configure your AutoDJ feature
AutoDJ
AutoDJ is a feature that enables you to stream music to listeners when you are not live
You basically just upload your mp3’s to our server with FTP, create a playlist and enable server side stream (for a detailed tutorial covering everything from configuring auto-dj to creating the playlist click here)
Configuring AutoDJ is easy 
•Change the “AutoDJ status” to Enabled
•Specify the genre you broadcast on you broadcast on your radio
•Enter a description
Start page
The start page is a little page that listen2myradio creates for your radio. Using this page people can listen to your radio, request songs, see recent tracks etc.
You can enable or disable this page, in our case we will enable it ,will all of its functionality
To enable the page just choose yes for all the options, and click update
If you want to disable this page, you just have to select “No” for “Activate start page”
Files
In this tab you can do something really important for a radio station, you choose a Introduction and Fallback file.
You are probably asking yourself what Introduction and Fallback files are.
•A introduction file is an audio file that is played immediately after each listener connects, before tuning in to the live stream
These files can be pretty important for a radio station, when making the files note that this file must match the bit rate, sample rate, and number of channels configured for your stream. If the intro/fallback files are not matching the bit/sample rate your stream wont work properly, so it is important to pay attention when making these.
•A fallback file is an audio file that is played in a loop if the source stream disconnects
When you have the files you want to use, just click on the “Browser” button, find the file, press “Open” and the upload will start
Server overrides
There isn’t much you can configure in this tab
It basically controls the title and URL shown in media players, it would be best if you leave it at %s (source provides title and url ) and you should leave “Public server” at automatic as well
Relaying
Relaying is probably a function that most users wont use.
When it comes to relaying you have two options
•To relay your stream to a remote server
Relaying means that you relay your stream to another remote server, then that server uses your stream as its source. But it also works vice versa, meaning you can use another server (that has relaying enabled) as your source, then your server will broadcast that remote stream.
•A remote server relays its stream to your server
Advanced
This tab give you the options what will happen to the listeners when your stream gets disconnected
You have 3 options here
•Disconnect listeners if source disconnects-yes/no
This is a thing of preference, if you wish to disconnect your users so they don’t wait when the stream is down you should enable it, but probably it doesn’t matter, when listeners see that there is no sound coming, they will probably disconnect after a while anyway.
•Disconnect idle sources after-here you state after how many seconds your listeners get disconnected if your stream doesent get back online
•Always disconnect listeners after-this means that even if your stream is working,you can choose to disconnect listeners after a certain amount of time
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