Radio Mast streams can be promoted or published to various internet radio directories, to make it easier for new listeners to discover your radio stream. Several radio apps use these directories as their source of data too, so publishing to these directories can significantly boost your listenership beyond the web.
A unique advantage of Radio Mast is that your stream can be published in both the Icecast and Shoutcast.com directory simultaneously, for maximum exposure.
To publish your stream on Shoutcast.com, you must enter an "Auth Hash" obtained by registering for an account on Shoutcast.com. Find out how to get an Auth Hash for your stream.
If you already have an Auth Hash for your stream, enter it under Promotion.
If you do not wish to publish your stream to the Shoutcast.com directory, leave the Shoutcast.com Auth Hash field blank.
Streams published on the Icecast directory can include extra information:
Due to some limitations of these directories, it may be necessary to disable promotion for 10 minutes to get changes to apply. We recommend configuring the fields above first before enabling publishing for the first time. If you need to make changes later, disable publishing for 10 minutes while you make your changes, save your stream, then re-enable it.
Before enabling promotion, we recommend filling out all the fields first, as changes may not be reflected for 5-10 minutes afterwards.
Finally, to enable publishing your stream to internet radio directories: