Description
Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 audio streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction.
Icecast alternatives and similar software solutions
Based on the "Audio Streaming" category.
Alternatively, view Icecast alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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Ampache
A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device. -
musikcube
a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++ -
AzuraCast
A self-hosted web radio management suite, including turnkey installer tools for the full radio software stack and a modern, easy-to-use web app to manage your stations. -
Airsonic
:satellite: :cloud: :notes:Airsonic, a Free and Open Source community driven media server (fork of Subsonic and Libresonic) -
cloudtunes
Web-based music player for the cloud :cloud: :notes: Play music from YouTube, Dropbox, etc. -
Libresonic
Open-source web-based media streamer and jukebox. A fork of Subsonic's last open-source release, before it switched licenses. -
Polaris
Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. -
CherryMusic
Stream your own music collection to all your devices! The easy to use free and open-source music streaming server. -
Airtime
Airtime is Sourcefabric’s open source radio software for scheduling and remote station management. Airtime provides a reliable audio playout with sub-second precision, an improved interface with modern usability features, advanced user management supporting roles and a Google-style calendar to schedule and move shows and playlists. -
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Audioserve
Simple personal server to serve audiofiles files from folders. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent folder structure will do. -
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Music Browser
Music Browser is a light-weight web-based browser and streamer for your music collection. It is runs on most operating systems, and is light enough to run flawlessly on NAS devices. -
ThRadio
A simple and self-hosted web radio management, inspired by AzuraCast. Developed with Typescript -
Icecast 2
streaming audio server which can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between.
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README
Icecast 2 - README
Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports WebM and Ogg streaming including the Opus, Vorbis and Theora codecs. Also Icecast can handle other streams like MP3/AAC/NSV in legacy mode, but this is not officially supported.
It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction.
Icecast is distributed under the GNU GPL, version 2. A copy of this license is included with this software in the COPYING file.
The name of this software is spelled "Icecast" with a leading capital 'I' but with a lower case 'c'. Any other spelling is incorrect.
Prerequisites
Icecast requires the following packages:
- libxml2
- libxslt
- curl (>= version 7.10 required)
- ogg/vorbis (>= version 1.0 required)
NOTE: Icecast may be compiled without curl, however this will disable Stream Directory server interaction (YP) and URL based authentication.
A note about prerequisite packages
Most distributions have some sort of package management repository for pre-built packages (eg rpm, deb etc). These setups often have a runtime package, which is usually installed for you by default, and enables you to run applications that depend on them. However if you are building Icecast from source then the runtime system is not enough. You will also need a development package named something like libxslt-devel
Build/Install
To build Icecast on a Unix platform, perform the following steps:
Run
./configure
make
make install # as root
This is the typical procedure if you download the tar file.
If you retrive the code from Git, make sure to clone recursively:
git clone --recursive https://git.xiph.org/icecast-server.git
After that, create the configure script by running: ./autogen.sh.
Now you can just follow the steps mentioned above.
A sample config file will be placed in /usr/local/etc (on UNIX,
also depends on path PREFIX) or in the current working directory
(on Win32) and is called icecast.xml
Documentation for Icecast is available in the doc directory, by
viewing doc/index.html in a browser. It's also installed to
$PREFIX/share/doc/icecast/. Online documentation can be found
on the Icecast Website.
If you have problems with setting up Icecast, please join the Icecast mailing list and then email [email protected]. In case you have patches or want to discuss development issues, please join the Icecast developer mailing list and then email [email protected]. Or come and see us on irc.freenode.net, channel #icecast (please be patient, people are not always at their computers).
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Icecast README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.