BUTT Setup

Prefer video? Watch the BUTT tutorial on YouTube.

Before you start

You'll need your Stream Info notecard, delivered in-world when you rented your plan. The fields you'll copy from it are HOST/IP, PORT, and PASSWORD. (If you're a live DJ connecting to someone else's AUTO-DJ station, use the credentials they gave you instead.)

Three things go wrong more often than anything else:

1. Extra spaces from copy/paste. Double-click the value to select it cleanly. If you drag to select, you can grab a leading or trailing space without seeing it, and the connection silently fails.
2. HOST/IP format. Use the address exactly as written, just live.xxx.lightmanstreams.com. Don't add http:// in front, don't add :PORT at the end (the port goes in its own field), and don't paste the in-world Land URL.
3. Password length. S Plan and M Plan passwords are always 6 characters. L Plan passwords are always 8 characters. AUTO-DJ live DJ passwords have no fixed length. If your S or L Plan password doesn't match the expected length, you grabbed the wrong line from the notecard.

⚠️ S Plan users: Set bitrate to 192k. Anything higher will fail to connect.

⚠️ Server Name is required. SHOUTcast rejects connections that don't send a name. In BUTT, this is the Name field in the Add Server dialog. Set it now and you avoid the most common cause of "won't connect".

1. Open Settings

In BUTT, click the Settings button (the gear icon).

2. Add a server

In the butt settings window, click the Main tab.

Under Server Settings, click ADD below the Server drop-down.

In the Add Server window:

• Name: type any name (required, see warning above)
• Type: Shoutcast
• Address: paste the HOST/IP from your notecard
• Port: paste the PORT from your notecard
• Password: paste the PASSWORD from your notecard (passwords are case-sensitive)

Click ADD to save the server.

3. Configure audio

Back in butt settings, click the Audio tab.

• Audio Device: select your audio source (mixer, sound card, or audio interface)
• Streaming > Codec: MP3
• Streaming > Bitrate: 320k (or 192k for S Plan)

4. Start broadcasting

Close the settings window and click the Play button. You're live.

Common issues

• Connection rejected? See SHOUTcast Connection Issues.
• Stream drops mid-broadcast? See Stream Cuts Out.
• Stream sounds bad? See Audio Sounds Bad.
• Status page says "requires registration"? See Listing Status: Private (BUTT defaults to private, so this is unlikely to apply).