[ubuntu-uk] Streaming to a shoutcast server

[Rob Beard]

On 11/06/10 19:58, Byte Soup wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> A coupe of years back, I was using WinXP and winamp with the shoutcast
> plugin, or "Edcast" to stream to a shoutcast server for live feed to an
> internet radio station. Id like to find out how I could do the same
> thing in Linux. Does anyone acheive the same thing, or know what apps /
> packages id need to do that?
>
> I was simply routing a sound feed into the PC from a mixer and then out
> to the shoutcast server. The encoding was 96K mp3
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>

It's been a while since I've done anything like this, IIRC I was 
streaming to an IceCast server (which AFAIK is similar to Shoutcast). 
I'm sure I used a program called ices to do this.  I'm not sure if it's 
compatible with Shoutcast but it was reasonably easy to setup and ran as 
a daemon.

If you prefer to do something like this with a GUI though, I'm pretty 
VLC will support streaming to a Shoutcast server.

Hope this helps.

Rob