They were a little slow in getting it out, but as of July 2005 with Airport 4.2, Apple’s Airport Extreme and Airport Express base stations now support it. NAT-PMP happened when Apple looked at the giant mess that is UPnP and decided they’d rather make their own protocol. The easiest way to make sure everything is running properly is to simply use Nicecast’s Server Checker in the Share drawer: if it succeeds, then you’re good to go. If your router supports UPnP then things will just work, and if not, you’re no worse off than before. UPnP support in Nicecast is pretty much invisible. You’ll have to restart Nicecast to get it to recognize the change on your router.
#Nicecast 1.8 2 manual#
Every router will be different, so you’ll have to consult your router’s manual if that’s the case. Most routers have it turned on by default, but some may require you to enable it manually. UPnP is supported by most home routers made in the last couple of years, with the notable exception of Apple’s Airport Base Stations. Among all these different capabilities lies the Internet Gateway Device protocol, which allows Nicecast to ask the router to forward your listeners’ requests to it. UPnP, which stands for Universal Plug and Play, is a massively complex standard that does about a million different things. Nicecast now includes two technologies to help with this problem by automatically communicating with your router and asking it to send listeners to the right place. One of the most important new features in Nicecast 1.8 is NAT Traversal, which takes care of this annoying issue. By default, any NAT device will prevent remote computers from connecting to anything on your local network, meaning that listeners can’t get to your broadcast without reconfiguring your router. Home routers are a big problem for anybody running a server such as Nicecast. This brings up options which were previously available only by option-clicking the Start Broadcast button. Speaking of the Source drawer, there’s a new button for both hijacking and audio input called Advanced. You’ll find this in the Source drawer along with the standard application and audio input sources. Using this source, you can capture and broadcast all sound generated by every program running on your computer without doing any extra setup. Nicecast now offers the System Audio input source as seen in Audio Hijack Pro.
#Nicecast 1.8 2 mac os x#
Unfortunately, bizarre technical limitations of OS X limit this feature’s availablity to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Nicecast will now serve a robots.txt with a blanket deny statement inside it, which will make all properly-designed search spiders ignore your stream, as they should. This doesn’t do anyone any good at all, as they get unusable data and you get wasted bandwidth.
#Nicecast 1.8 2 full#
You can also check out the full press release.Ĭertain internet search engines have the bad habit of finding links to your stream and then trying to index them for their databases. If you’ve never used Nicecast, click to learn more about our award-wining audio broadcasting utility. All this and more is available in Nicecast 1.8, free for all previously registered users, so download it now.
Other features in Nicecast 1.8 include the new Application Mixer Effects plugin, allowing for audio to be pulled from multiple applications at once, as well as the new System Audio input source, which optionally allows all audio from your Mac to be broadcast. The new version also provides enhanced control and security, with the ability to password-protect the stream and even kick listeners. If your router supports one of these protocols, the network will be automatically configured to allow outside access.
To start, we’ve made setup easier than ever, with support for UPnP and NAT-PMP enabled routers, including most new LinkSys, Netgear, and Apple devices.
Version 1.8 offers major new features alongside under-the-hood changes and bug fixes.
#Nicecast 1.8 2 update#
Today, we’ve released a major update to Nicecast, our essential tool for live audio broadcasting on OS X.