Get Set to Stream!

This is a streaming audio guide which came about through a grant from the Albert A. List Foundation in support of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) National Youth in Radio Training Project. In addition to identifying and organising youth training programmes in the United States nationwide, NFCB received List Foundation support to help youth groups gain access to new distribution methods for their work. Get Set to Stream! is intended to assist these groups in webcasting, or streaming audio programmes produced by youth on the internet.

The first section of this guide is focused on those "things to think about," and how the answers can help the reader make sound technical choices best suited to the specific circumstance. Next, this guide examines the pertinent issues associated with streaming audio, from already existing servers, or forming partnerships with other organisations who already maintain large server capacity. There are a number of online tutorials that take the reader step-by-step through the process of audio webcasting or web audio streaming (both live and on demand), and each of them provides links to additional web resources.

Section four points the reader toward the major media production applications available on CD-ROM, and section five is an annotated list of books and tapes for onhand reference that can provide background information, theory basics, principles, and project planning suggestions. That section is followed by an overview of digital editing tools/sites for both Macintosh and Windows PC platforms. The remaining sections of this guide feature links to each National Youth in Radio Training Project (NYRTP) participant that has streaming audio on line, and relevant public radio streaming media sites.