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Icecast is a free open source streaming media server that currently supports streaming of Vorbis, Opus, WebM and Theora. Also known to work are MP3 and AAC.

Icecast is a free open source streaming media server that currently supports streaming of Vorbis, Opus, WebM and Theora. Also known to work are MP3 and AAC. Not every encoding is supported for every protocol (see Icecast on Wikipedia).

On Ubuntu, Icecast is provided by the icecast2 Install icecast2 package.

Use this tag for questions about streaming with Icecast on Ubuntu. If your problem is receiving a stream that appears to be working for others, it's helpful to include other descriptive tags--in particular, a tag for whatever audio player you're trying to use for streaming.

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How do I setup an Icecast server for broadcasting audio in my network?

Broadcasting the output of the soundcard as an internet radio stream is a reliable way to stream audio in a network. This can nicely be used to e.g. transmit audio in a wireless LAN to another computer or any other device capable of playing internet…
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How to run an automated internet-radio station in a server environment?

I'm running an Ubuntu server environment with icecast-2.3.2 and ices-0.4.0 to enable internet-radio streaming. I have a directory with music files, mostly MP3, let's call it /PATH/TO/MUSIC. I also have directories with jingles and podcasts.…
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Stream sound card output to icecast2 via darkice

I want to stream to icecast server via darkice, the default .cfg comes with /dev/dsp, witch is OSS, but there is no /dev/dsp in Ubuntu 12.10, so I tried hw:0,0, but it's just the microphone, and I would like to stream all of the sound-card…
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Icecast2 and darkice stream playing too slow

I am trying to access my InstantFM USB radio dongle using icecast2 and darkice. I have it set up well enough that when I access the stream (192.168.2.108:8000/instantfm) I do get sound but it is playing extremely slow. Can someone tell me what I…
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Stream to stream conversion with icecast

Currently I am using icecast to relay any stream, but i want my output steam in mp3 format whatever is input stream. Like if input relaying stream is mp4 I want my icecast to give just mp3 format of that stream. How it is possible? or how i can do…
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Icecast2 streams microphone input instead of sound card output

I'm trying to set up my laptop (14.04 32 bit) to broadcast the music it is playing (using Clementine) to my local wireless network. That way I can listen to my music everywhere on this network using my phone (using an internet radio streaming…
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Stream Mixxx headphone output via IceCast

Just like the title. Is it possible to configure Mixxx and Icecast in such a way that the headphone output is streamed? (Instead of the master output) How? My laptop has only one sound card. I thought, maybe it's possible to connect my phone (via…
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Setting up Icecast2 streaming server on the Internet for live streaming

I have looking through tutorials for setting up Icecast2 server and ices2 on Ubuntu. Unfortunately all of these are based on LAN. I want to set up a Icecast server on a ubuntu machine which will be connected 24/7 to the Internet. The clients need to…
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How to reencode stream in fly and translate?

I have urls to the Icecast/Shoutcast streams, how can i relay these streams in multiple bitrates? I know how to reencode file, but don't know how to reencode stream in multiple bitrates. For example i find two icecast/shoutcast stream…
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How can I run a live stream as local radio?

I want to play a live stream (for example http://204.45.41.148/) with icecast2 server. I have successfully installed icecast2 and ices2. I want my users to connect to my server for listening this channel instead of playing it from original…
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Icecast on linux using AAC

I'm pretty new to using Icecast. We are streaming MP3s from a Linux box with Icecast, but we need to move to AAC. How can I make Icecast stream AAC files?
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Listeners disconnect from Icecast streams

I'm doing a project on live audio streaming using Icecast and mixxx. I configured icecast server successfully. I'am able to listen the audio but sometimes connection reset occurs and the connection can be again established by refreshing the page.…
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Console streaming client for icecast

I need a console streaming client for icecast which allows me to use dynamic playlists and can play mp3. Ices2 support dynamic playlists but it plays ogg only, it does not support mp3 files.
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Unable to install darkice in ubuntu 12.04 x64

I'm trying to install darkice with "apt-get" by looking at this tutorial here.. but it says unable to locate the package. And I've downloaded a .tar from their web.. extracted the package, cd into it & when I try to use ./configure, it runs and…
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Icecast and darkice combination high-latency

I have successfully installed icecast and darkice on my ubuntu machine and was able to stream live on my lan. but to my disappointment it has a 15sec to 20sec delay.This is very poor performance. I don't think it is because of my lan connection…
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