A few simple questions.

For mainly voice only radio quality, do i use Stero, mono, or join-stero??

Is 24Khz ok?? Or even lower??

And do i need a streaming server in order to streaming it. Since i am only streaming it to 1 or 2 people a day. Therefore i am thinking if it is possible like i put WMA file online and windows Media player will auto open it without download it first??

You don't even have those options in WMA voice. Only mono.



16kHz is most probably OK for voice only.

OK............. i have just tested it........ it seems that the only way to change input audio sources from Microphone to MP3 is to manual change it in Audiio Recoding panel.

I am wondering are there anyway to have both audio sources on at same time. So i could have something like music while i am still speaking...........?

And..... this may sounds stupid.... But would there be a VBR for this?? I am thinking of having music at the end of my chatting, but using 12 Kbps 16 mono the quality is .................... I just want it to spend more bit there....

iwod, what is it *exactly* that you're planning on doing? Are you going to broadcasting a voice-only internet radio show? Is it a talk show? If you want music, I don't understand why you can't have it going through the same sound card as what the voice is running through. Also, all sound cards I've worked with will automatically allow the audio from the "line in" to come across to everything else, so all you'd have to do is plug some CD-player or whatever into the "line-in" stage on your sound card. But to give any advice, I'd like to know exactly what you're going to be doing.

Edit: besides, just download Windows Media Encoder from MS's website, it will guide you through the whole process with a wizard, I think.