Editing Altacast (section)

==Development==
The original streaming software, Oddcast, was developed from 2000 to 2010. The official site at Oddsock.org hosted streaming media tools, which included [[Oddcast (company)|Oddcast]], Stream Transcoder, Icecast Station Browser plugin, Song Requester plugin and Do Something plugin.<ref name="oddsock-tools"/> In late November 2010, Oddsock.org was shut down.<ref name="oddsock-farewell"/>

Edcast, a fork of Oddcast, is being updated and hosted at Club RIO. In early 2012, development of Edcast was moved to [[Google Code]] and [[SourceForge]]. As of October 30, 2011, the latest stable version is ''3.33.2011.1026'' and the latest beta version is ''3.37.2011.1214''.

In September 2012, a second fork, Altacast was released. The Standalone & DSP edition are derived from [[GPL]] software and is available on [[GitHub]],<ref name="github-1"/> while the RadioDJ edition is written in [[.NET Framework]] and developed separately. A version 2.0 for the Standalone & DSP edition that will be SHOUTcast v2 compatible is planned for the future.

Altacast plugin for RadioDJ will no longer function with new versions of RadioDJv2 - Altacast is not supported by the developer of RadioDJ due to legal issues.<ref name="radiodj-legal"/>