Broadcasting-Software | Reference: Audio settings

Audio Source

BS-Server can broadcast recorded audio files, or live from a microphone or any other audio device attached to your computer.
Possible audio sources are:

Files : broadcast all MP3, OGG or WAV files stored in the "from Folder" (see below);
Live : broadcast live audio from the input selected in the "Device" drop-down list (see below);
Tune : broadcat a fixed frequency tune. For testing purpose.
Mute: to disable audio.

You can switch audio sources while broadcast is in progress. Example: you can interrupt an mp3, make a voice announcement with the microphone, and resume the mp3.

Bandwidth

The bandwidth of your broadcast is shared between the images stream and the audio stream. This textbox allocates bandwidth to the audio stream. The best value depends on the overall properties of your broadcast. If you want to stream high quality audio, more bandwidth will be required:

24 Kbps and lower bandwidths sound like AM radio and should be reversed to low bandwidth broadcasts.
48 Kbps sounds like FM radio and is suitable for most uses
96 Kbps and higher bandwidths give very high quality audio.

Example: if you intend to broadcast to people who connect to the Internet with modems, total bandwidth should not exceed 54 Kbps. This bandwidth could be split like this: 22 Kbps for the images stream and 32 Kbps for the audio. If you don't need to broadcast images, you will assign all the available bandwith to the audio stream, to get better audio quality.

Playback button

Click it to hear/mute the audio stream originating from BS-Server. Sound will not be heared immediately after enabling audio playback because it takes several seconds to fill internal audio buffers.
The sound you hear is actually decoded from your data stream - not from your original audio files: it means that its quality depends on the Bandwidth value set above.
Playback is disabled when the Live audio source is selected to avoid audio feedback.

Playback slider

Use it to adjust the volume of the local audio playback.

More Audio settings: Files, Live, Record.