How to Upload Your Own Music to a Website to Then Play in Second Life

April 13, 2022 Post a Comment

This tutorial came well-nigh after following the case of SL resident Captain A-Jay who listens to Second Life music streams via an external media player, namely the excellent and free VLC. After trying this it became articulate that music quality was much improved compared to listening through the SL viewer.

Notwithstanding there was one small problem. If you wait at the url of a Second Life stream it is clear its non easy to lucifer it to a DJ, so picking the correct stream in VLC to listen to tin can exist a challenge. Hence the purpose of this tutorial is to show a style to salve a stream in VLC so that it has an identifying name.

After this we'll show another way of saving and listening to a Second Life stream by using MusicBee, which is some other excellent and complimentary music software package.

If you adopt, you can lookout a video of this tutorial on our YouTube channel, or you lot tin view the video at the bottom of this page.

Copying A Stream Url From Second Life

Before you can mind to a Second Life music stream in a media player you need the stream url. To get information technology follow these steps.

one/ Bold you're already at the location where the stream is playing click on the 'i' icon at the beginning of the location accost at the top of the viewer. This will open up the Identify Profile window, shown above.

2/ Click on the About Land button and the above window will open. Select the Sound tab. Drag your cursor over the music url, right click and select Copy from the drop down list. Proceed information technology somewhere safe as we'll need information technology afterward.

Some locations in Second Life won't allow visitors to copy the music url, in which case you lot tin ask the DJ if he tin share the stream url with yous. Most DJs will be happy to do this, although it may be a expert idea to tell them why yous want information technology.

Calculation The Music Url To VLC

1/ In VLC select Media > Open up Network Stream equally in the paradigm above.

2/ In the window that opens paste the music url from Second Life. And then hitting the Play button.

3/ Now select Media> Save Playlist to File.

four/ Navigate to where you desire to save the playlist file then give it an identifying name. The playlist is of course the music url from Second Life so I've named it later on the DJ. Now click Relieve.

5/ To start playing the stream in VLC select Media > Open file, and if necassary navigate to the folder with the file you lot just saved. Double click on the file to open up and heed to information technology in VLC.

Alternatively, go directly to the folder and double click on the file. This volition open the it in VLC, and and then long every bit the DJ is streaming, you'll be able to listen to them.

MusicBee

Another piece of cake style to save and play 2d Life streams is to use MusicBee. Like VLC, MusicBee is an splendid media player, merely it is much more than that. You can employ information technology to sort your music files into playlists, organise them by genre, and basically use it as a database to manage and play all of your music.

Different VLC which tin also play movie files, MusicBee is focused entirely on music including cyberspace radio stations, and it is this feature that can exist used to add together and proper name music streams from 2d Life. Follow these steps to do merely that.

1/ MusicBee is quite complex with many dissimilar looks and ways to configure information technology, then when you first offset it upwards, it may look unlike than above. Don't worry about that though, just click on the Radio tab about the top of the window.

2/ Now click on Radio towards the elevation left and from the driblet down menu select New Station.

iii/ The small window shown higher up will open where you lot can add the stream details, the most important of class being the url and an identifying name. As you can encounter I accept also added an image for the stream and I've chosen the genre 2d Life so I know its the stream of an SL DJ.

Click Relieve, and the stream has been added to MusicBee.

4/ The above image shows the music stream and name. If more url streams were added they would form a list. To select a stream simply double click on it. Once you're connected, details of the electric current song and (quite often) a related epitome will exist shown to the right.

Thats all there is to adding streams from Second Life to either VLC or MusicBee. Have fun trying out both and see which you adopt.