Reviewed by Ana Marculescu-Sofptedia on August 27th, 2014
Nullsoft SHOUTcast Server GUI is designed as the GUI for Nullsoft
SHOUTcast Server and is helpful for
broadcasting radio stations.
It comes with
support for a rich set of configuration settings that give you the possibility to set up
an online or a local network radio station which can be managed with the aid of the SHOUTcast plug-in from Winamp.
Nullsoft SHOUTcast Server GUI proves to be a reliable and powerful GUI
for the SHOUTcast server, and thanks to its advanced set of features is suitable for especially for power users.
The main window embeds several handy configuration settings and reveals a log with details about the entire broadcasting process. The tool includes a help file but offers only a few details about the utility’s features.
The application
offers support for an automatic mode in case it experiences crashes and is able to restart the
process if bugs occur.
Nullsoft SHOUTcast Server GUI is capable of accessing the
SHOUTcast GUI channel and sending notifications on the channel about the song that is played
online.
ShoutcastGui will autoregister/autoupdate titles to shoutcastgui.com Radio Station List bringing more listeners
A smart feature included in the package enables you to diagnose errors that may appear upon connecting and registering to Shoutcast Directory. Plus, the program repairs .conf file errors related to missing portbase, admin password and other types of issues.
The application allows you to kill or restart the server
, save the log to plain text file format and open it directly from the main window, clear the log window, copy the log info to the clipboard, configure
the server using the built-in editor, check the server status, as well as chat with other users using the built-in client.
When it comes to chat settings you can make the
program pop up personal messages, update titles on chat and use a remote IP or DSN for title updates and connections.
Other settings allow you to automatically run the
utility at Windows startup, show notifications related to server and chat in the system
tray, automatically clean log windows after a user-defined number of lines,
view information about servers (name, host, prefix, nickname and channels), and create a
list with filtered words.