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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.

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Save the output of darkice or icecast2 stream to file (mp3)?

I successfully set up a icecast2 server with darkice (ubuntu server 20.04.1 LTS (focal)) on a raspberrypi) to stream audio inside of my network. I now would like to be able to go back and listen to ...
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Equalizer for darkice and icecast

By installing Darkice in combination with Icecast and my USB audio card, it is possible to stream the output of my vinyl player to my Sonos system. I have followed this guide https://www.instructables....
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Trying to stream the output of audio playing on Kodi/Ubuntu 18.04 to Icecast

I have kodi (installed from the repos) as a mediaplayer on top of Ubuntu AMD64 18.04, and would like to stream whatever audio is being played on it to an icecast stream on my LAN, so that individual ...
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How do I make a Icecast live stream play at accurate time?

I've just tried setting up Icecast2, alongside with Darkice. I notice that when I play from the live stream, the audio seems to be 30 seconds later than it should be. How do I make a Icecast live ...
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Re-encoding internet radio to a lower bitrate?

I found an internet radio station, but I would like to re-encode it to Opus 32kbps to fit on my unlimited data plan. How would I achieve this? The source radio uses MP3 @ 160kbps, which is over my ...
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How to stream mic input with little to no delay(over lan)

Seems the default answer is icecast + darkice but many people mention a delay of anywhere from 1-5 seconds. Is this due to hardware limitations?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Put crossdomain.xml into icecast2 webroot

I'm trying to put a crossdomain.xml file inside icecast2 web root to be able to access by the flash player http://mydomain.com:8000/crossdomain.xml I'm frustrated now. Tried everything possible but ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 &...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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