SHOUTcast – der Name ist Programm!

1998 gegründet von Stephen Loomis (‘Tag), Tom Pepper und Justin Frankel von der Firma Nullsoft. Nach nur einem Jahr Bestehen dann der große Verkauf an den Medienkonzern AOL Time Warner. Sowohl WinAmp als auch SHOUTcast gehen mitsamt der Nullsoft Marke in die Hände vom Internetriesen AOL. Im gleichen Jahr hat sich AOL übrigens auch ICQ von Mirabilis gekauft. Diese zwei Käufe gehören heute vielleicht zu den bedeutendsten Käufen von AOL.

Nach dem Verkauf wurden WinAmp und SHOUTcast richtig polulär. Die Stunde der Webradios war geboren und dauert mittlerweile schon zehn ganze Jahre an – und ist aus dem Netz schon gar nicht mehr wegzudenken.

Wir zeigen euch hier die unterschiedlichen SHOUTcast Versionen und somit einen Überblick über die ganzen Versionen dieser einzigartigen Streaming Software.

Derzeit suchen wir noch nach Screenshots der alten Versionen von Januar 2000 bis heute. Solange könnt ihr ja mal interessehalber die Versionshistorie durchlesen.

Wir haben nun folgende, ältere SHOUTcast Versionen zum Download für euch:

SHOUTcast Server Version 1.9.9beta (Release: 13. Mai 2008)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.9.8 (Release: 28. Februar 2007)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.9.7 (Release: 23. Juni 2006)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.9.6 (Release: 19. Juni 2006)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.9.5 (Release: 27. Dezember 2004)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.9.4 (Release: 17. März 2004)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.9.2 (Release: 25. November 2002)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.8.9 (Release: 15. März 2002)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.8.3 (Release: 7. August 2001)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.8.2 (Release: 23. Juli 2001)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.8.0 (Release: 4. Januar 2001)
SHOUTcast Server Version 1.7.1 (Release: 29. August 2000)

v1.8.8 (January 16, 2002)
* internal release only

v1.8.7 (December 12, 2001)
* internal release only

v1.8.6 (November 2, 2001)
* internal release only

v1.8.5 (October 18, 2001)
* internal release only

v1.8.4 (September 15, 2001)
* internal release only

v1.7.0 (August 14, 2000)
* new features
- New XML pages for subsets of shoutcast statistics data. See XML section.
- Average Listener Time now listed on status page
- New logging system tracks individual listener events, and assigns
unique ID for every connected socket for easier tracking.
- DNAS should now be MUCH more optimized for high-bandwidth
delivery (listener impact on CPU is now linear instead of geometric)

* new config items
- WebLog (Yes/No, default No) – display http:// requests in log
- TchLog (Yes/No, default Yes) – display yp touches
- Sleep (value) – tweakable parameter for high-traffic SHOUTcast
servers — adjusts sleep granularity.
- CpuCount (value) – tweakable parameter for high-traffic SHOUTcast
servers — adjusts client threads.

* bugfixes
- All non-ASCII characters are now properly encoded for XML
- YP now receives average listener time data (for ratings)

v1.666.1 (June 12 2000)
* bug fixes
- Occasional CPU full load issue at idle, and during client connections
(a thread-safe sleep() would sure be nice. way to track it down, tag.)

v1.666.0 (June 6 2000)
* new features
- ListenerTimer config item will force-disconnect listeners active for
the number of minutes specified
- AllowRelay config item will permit or deny other servers from relaying
- AllowPublicRelay config item allows relaying, but forces relays to treat
server as non-public
- Ban / Reserve IP lists now available to add on-the-fly
- Initial stream backpositioning set at 32k (faster sync-up for listeners
with faster connections)
- Taillog via HTML admin now available regardless of disk logging setting

* bugfixes
- XML now displays appropriately URL-encoded data for all wacky characters
- Linux SIGSEGV errors fixed. No, really, I mean it.
- Taillog now handled internally via circular buffer because Linux pukes
when more than one thread is accessing a file a lot
- Relay lock fixed
- On-demand content delivery fixed for Linux

v1.6.0rc2 (May 16 2000)
* new features
- Reported listener count only tracks unique IPs (cuts down on fake entries)
- Upon NAK from yp, server will now attempt to speak to yp again on a source
disconnect/reconnect, instead of total server restart

* bugfixes
- SPARC solaris sleep isn’t thread-safe, fixed
- Fixed bug where servers occasionally locked in listener thread and listener
count skyrocketed
- Fixed Linux web-admin SIGSEGV bug
- Fixed taillog SIGSEGV bug

v1.6.0b1 (Feb 16 2000)
* new features:
- XML status page [http://server:port/admin.cgi?pass=(passwd)&mode=viewxml]
- on-demand content serving (prevents save-to-disk in Winamp, etc.)
example included: [http://server:port/content/scpromo.mp3] (open in Winamp)
- on-demand content playlist generator (for direct URL linking)
example included: [http://server:port/content/scpromo.pls] (open in IE)

* bugfixes:
- yp bug where losing connection with yp would leave server out of directory
until sc_serv restart
- fixed obscure bug in client thread which would occasionally freeze clients

v1.5.0 (Jan 20 2000)
- Complete rewrite of source
- Now 4 thread model instead of n+3, much more efficient
- Fixed annoying year 2000 log display anomaly (thank you tm struct)
- Code no longer leaky on any supported OS to best of our knowledge
- No more wierd signals sneaking in and killing sc_serv on Solaris
- Addition of IRC, AIM, and ICQ flags for directory
- Addition of Bans via web interface — kick and ban the bastards
- Addition of Reserved connects — always permit connects by IP
- Low-bandwidth status report for Palm VII (http://server/7.html)
- New hyperleet web interface (thanks for the help Steve)
- Last n songs integrated into web interface (1-20)
- Admin and Broadcast passwords can optionally be different (hello live365)
- Listener list (http) now sorted by connect time
- (fixed 1.3.0b1 gui display bug, taillog now persistent)
- removal of usage graph (it was crappy)
- removal of telnet log interface (use http, please)
- Top secret credits page (happy hunting)
- Tom has new kick-ass girlfriend (Nullsoft is in bloom)
- Tag now highly eligible bachelor