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Creating and Broadcasting a "LoFi Radio" Station with Amazon IVS

Todd Sharp on February 03, 2023

This post might not fall into the "normal" ways that you'd use live streaming with Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), but it's a fun pr...
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Michael Tharrington

Maybe it's time that someone built an entire live streaming UGC platform that gives users the ability to create their own custom lofi channels and broadcast them to their friends? That's a free idea - run with it!

That is a seriously awesome free idea, haha! It'd be cool to have a community where everyone could create their own lofi playlist, customize the character's looks and setting, chat with others... ya got my wheels turning!

Anywho, this was a really cool tutorial that shows how ya might use the Web Broadcast SDK & Amazon IVS in combo to create a lofi radio live stream. Appreciate ya sharing!

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Todd Sharp

Thanks, Michael! I would love to see someone build something like this!

You can also check out our live stream from the other day where we talked about this and walked through building it live.

twitch.tv/videos/1725282471

Have a great day!

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo awesome! Thanks for linking this over to me. 🙌

Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

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k1lgor

hmmm, this looks interesting but is it possible to stream deep house for example, not only lofi music?

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Todd Sharp

You can stream any kind of music that you'd like!

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Chuck LaPress

Great article Todd, I can’t wait to build and add the chat and experiment.
Thanks so much for posting.

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Todd Sharp

Looking forward to see what you cook up! 🔥

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Brian Kirkpatrick

If you are having issues getting the IAM policies set up for the IVS actions: docs.aws.amazon.com/ivs/latest/use...

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Todd Sharp

Thanks for sharing, Brian!

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Ken Savage

Very cool post Todd @recursivecodes

Is there a way to build this and also stream it to places like YouTube and Spotify?

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Todd Sharp

You could probably do something with an app like Streamyard (which supports streaming to multiple destinations). Maybe I'll blog something like this in the future!

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k1lgor

Hi Todd, I am following your guide step by step but at the end nothing happened. Not to mention that you have not added some steps regarding usage of aws cli - need to be configured, to create a user by IAM, create custom policy and add it to the user's permission so can create a channel via cli.