Icecast, the project, is a collection of programs and libraries for
streaming audio over the Internet. This includes:
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<li>icecast, a program that streams audio data to listeners</li>
<li>libshout, a library for communicating with Icecast servers</li>
<li>IceS, a program that sends audio data to Icecast servers</li>
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A source client is an external program which is responsible for sending content data to icecast. Some source clients that support icecast2 are Oddcast, ices2, ices0.3, and DarkIce.
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<h4>What is icecast, the program?</h4>
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icecast streams audio to listeners, and is compatible with Nullsoft<66>s Shoutcast.
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<h4>What is libshout ?</h4>
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From the README:
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libshout is a library for communicating with and sending data to an icecast server.
It handles the socket connection, the timing of the data, and prevents bad data from getting to the icecast server.
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<h4>What is IceS?</h4>
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IceS is a program that sends audio data to an icecast server to broadcast to clients.
IceS can either read audio data from disk,
such as from Ogg Vorbis files, or sample live audio from a sound card and encode it on the fly.
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<h4>How can I view the stream status page?</h4>
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Check your icecast configuration file for an element
called <webroot>. This directory contains web stuff.
In it, place a file called <20>status.xsl<73> that
transforms an <acronym>XML</acronym> file containing stream
data into a web page
(either <acronym>XHTML</acronym> or <acronym>HTML</acronym>).
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There are sample <acronym>XSL</acronym> stylesheets available
in icecast/web/ in the CVS distribution
of icecast.
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In addition, the web directory can
hold multiple status transforms, if you can<61>t decide which
one you want.
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<h4>What can I use to listen to an Icecast stream?</h4>
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We maintain a list of Icecast-compatible audio players at
