Editing Altacast (section)

==Features==
Altacast is supported on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]. It will run in conjunction with various media players compatible with [[Winamp]] plugins, such as [[AIMP]], [[JetAudio]], [[KMPlayer]], [[MediaMonkey]], [[MusicBee]] and [[foobar2000]], as well as a standalone encoder.

Altacast Standalone & DSP can stream to [[Icecast]] and [[SHOUTcast]] servers in [[Ogg Vorbis]] and [[Ogg FLAC]] out-of-the-box. [[MP3]], [[Advanced Audio Coding|AAC]] and [[AAC+]] support can be added via the [[LAME]] encoder (lame_enc.dll), [[FAAC]] encoder (libFAAC.dll), and [[Coding Technologies|CT-aacPlus]] encoder (enc_aacplus.dll obtainable from Winamp 5.61)<ref name="edcast-alive"/> respectively. Adjustable settings for each encoder include bitrate (for MP3, AAC+, Ogg Vorbis), quality (for AAC, Ogg Vorbis), sample rate (22050&nbsp;Hz or 44100&nbsp;Hz) and channels ([[Parametric Stereo]] is available for AAC+ up till 56&nbsp;kbit/s).

SHOUTcast v2 is currently not officially supported in Altacast Standalone & DSP. However, it is possible to connect to stream ID no. 1 of a SHOUTcast v2 server in legacy (v1) mode. As a temporary workaround, the SHOUTcast DSP 1.9.2 plugin for Winamp-compatible media players may be used to broadcast to alternate mount points (e.g. stream ID no. 2).

SHOUTcast v2 and [[Opus (audio format)|Opus]] support is available in v1.4 onwards in the plugin.