The Centova Cast v2.0 stable release is now available! See below for a list of updates in this new version.

Centova Cast is a professional streaming radio server control panel and hosting management solution, providing complete control over the provisioning and management of your streaming servers.

Its features include:


AJAX drag-and-drop media library manager (direct-link demo (http://castdemo.centova.com/index.php?page=login&username=demo&password=demo1234&login=1&returnto=cGFnZT1saWJyYXJ5))
Built-in track scheduling capabilities (schedule countdowns, pre-recorded shows, jingles, ads, etc.)
Built-in track weighting capabilities (heavy rotation, light rotation, etc.)
Server-based streaming source support using ices or sc_trans.
Feature-rich web-based administrative interface for provisioning and managing streaming servers.
Complete web-based client control panel for starting/stopping and configuring streaming servers.
Data transfer and listener statistics, complete with graphs.
Configurable bit rate, listener, disk quota, and data transfer limits for each client account.
Automated, built-in stream monitoring system to minimize downtime.
FTP server integration (ProFTPd or Pure-FTPd) for streaming media (MP3) uploads.
Billing system integration for ModernBill (http://www.modernbill.com) (v4/v5) and iPanel/iHost (http://www.ihostdev.com/ihost.html), and WHMCS (http://www.whmcs.com) billing systems.
Automatic playlist generation for WinAmp, Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and RealPlayer
Flexible XML and PHP APIs for integration with third-party billing and provisioning systems.
Cross-browser compatibility.
Support for both ShoutCast and IceCast streaming servers.


Centova Cast is extremely easy to use for both the administrator and clients. It is a complete, standalone control panel, and does not require any other control panel software on the same server (although it will happily coexist with CPanel, Plesk, and others).

This new version of Centova Cast includes the following new features:


Added completely new AJAX-driven, drag-and-drop media library (screenshot (http://www.centova.com/pages/casttour/#medialibrary), direct-link demo (http://castdemo.centova.com/index.php?page=login&username=demo&password=demo1234&login=1&returnto=cGFnZT1saWJyYXJ5))
drag-and-drop tracks to build playlists
browse or search by artist, album, or genre
live audio preview of tracks

Added support for per-stream start/home pages (screenshot (http://www.centova.com/pages/casttour/#startpage), direct-link demo (http://castdemo.centova.com/start/demo/))
Added support for on-demand, downloadable/streamable content
Added multiple playlist support with scheduling capabilities (screenshot (http://www.centova.com/pages/casttour/#playlists)), including:
weighted general rotation playlists
timed-interval and song-interval playlists (for station identification, commercial advertisements, etc.)
scheduled playlists (for countdowns, etc.)
immediate "play-now" playlists
Added port-80 proxy for streaming audio

Added full internationalization support
Added track preview option in media library browser
Added WHMCS billing system support
Added embeddable recent tracks list and JavaScript code snippet
Added Amazon integration for CD covers and buy-now links
Added song request support
Added embeddable on-demand content browser JavaScript code snippet
Added administrator password change support
Vastly improved ID3 tag reading support

Improved administrative notifications
Migrated to new licensing system (monthly licensing now available!)
Added dynamic playlist support for ices2
Added support for client-defined encoder/bit rate settings
Added portability improvements for BSD support
Fixed a significant number of bugs


For more information and screenshots, please visit:
http://www.centova.com/pages/cast/

Or try our free, live demo at:
http://castdemo.centova.com

Requirements:

Linux OS (Red Hat/CentOS, Debian, and Fedora are officially supported)
Apache v1.3 or 2.0 with PHP 4.3+ or PHP 5
MySQL v4.x or 5.x
ShoutCast v1.9.x+ or IceCast v2.x+
Optional: ices-cc (http://www.centova.com/pages/icescc), ices 0.4, sc_trans 0.4.0, ices 2, ezstream
ProFTPd v1.3.0+ or Pure-FTPd v1.0.21+ (optional)
ionCube loader (included with Centova Cast)
Shell access (i.e., SSH) required for installation


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Centova Technologies Inc.
http://www.centova.com
Centova Cast - ShoutCast Control Panel (http://www.centova.com/pages/cast)

Could you please inform me of the hardware requirements that a web server must have in order to run Centova?
Does the number of users alter the hardware requirements?

We originally want to create a 300 user web cast server. What would you suggest fo a server hardware?

I see that you've also opened a ticket with our helpdesk, and I've responded there with more information.

For anyone else who may be interested, in short, the resource requirements of Centova Cast itself are negligible; it's those of the ShoutCast server and any source software you might be running which will be your bottlenecks. More information is available in this knowledge base article (http://www.centova.com/pages/faqs/display/resource_usage_of_centova_cast_9).