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'Not sure about the rest of the world — However at least in terms of licensing (yet alone the costs of building out!) in the United States, getting ANY new FM signal on the air is a major headache these days. The Low Power FM filing window ended months ago, and the FCC's last one was like…. A decade ago.

A large number of religious broadcasters occupy the entire lower portion of the FM band, but what's irritating is that one small broadcaster might buy up multiple stations in an area, and then broadcast the SAME THING! It's like… Guys, that's cool. Do your thing, but you could at least let someone else do their thing too?!!! 🙂

I have seen this happen… Including a Community College that sold their 100+ Watt signal in Southeastern Pa. to a religious broadcaster…. Who already had a good signal in the same area…..

Meanwhile, the local community NPR station — Which is more or less stepped on in terms of listenership by Penn's [My bad, a tad below 3KW] blowtorch coming out of Philadelphia — Can't even increase their power, so they have bad multipath right next to their studio. Or, in their coverage area. (As a side note, they also feed their web stream off of the FM output of an Optimod 8500, and then run it at 128kbps mp3 stereo with a bad encoder. :).

Maybe the FCC will open up some new frequencies, if that's even possible. I mean it's not like most car radio can go below 87.7FM anyway, right? — I thought I saw something about it. But if you get a frequency that nobody can access….. It becomes only marginally better than that joke that is iBOC / HD Radio.

I have also seen a University lose a Class-A FM License to a religious broadcaster because the FCC looks at the number of people served. The other guy had a better antenna placement idea than the University. It was a number's game.

Ironically, this was the same broadcaster that did the whole Community College thing I mentioned earlier….. And the Community College did not want to sell their license to the University, but was almost taken over by a local PBS Affiliate who had a conflict of interest with multiple parties…. Yeah.

It's a brutal game, but fun to sit back and watch! 🙂

*Laughs.*

I found that I had to do something like this to get Live working correctly with an older Audioscience card, though the problem was flat-out stuttering upon the audio being connected for the first time.

A work-around that might work is to install the demo of Breakaway *Broadcast* along with Live, and make sure to install four instances of it. This should give you four pipelines, that you can route audio between.

I *believe* that if you then remove Broadcast and leave Live, the pipelines should still appear.

I have a stream* setup where the input is the line input device of the professional sound card, and the output is Pipeline 3. EdCast takes the audio from Pipeline 3. I can then listen to the output by telling Windows 7 — under the volume control properties — to listen to the device on whatever I want, say, the sound card output itself, or event the front-panel headphone jack which runs on the onboard audio.