Review on Instreamer - Efficient IP Audio Encoder for High-Quality Streaming by Jon Booth

This is the only product we could find on the market at a "decent" price that allows you to encode streaming audio without using a computer. Because we broadcast events live, we run the audio chord straight from our soundboard to the streamer and then over the internet to our streaming host. We don't have to use computer programs like Sam Broadcaster. The new updated Barix Instreamer has greatly improved the original product. The biggest improvement is the automatic reset. The streamer saves your settings. So if your stream is interrupted due to a power outage, the box will automatically start streaming again when power is restored. The streamer is pretty easy to set up, but it can take a while to get the settings right on the Audio tab. We found that even though we set the speed to 32kbps, we were actually streaming at 59kbps, causing conflicts with our host computer and permanently stopping our stream, as well as severely distorted audio. After adjusting the settings down, the issues were resolved. instreamers