Icecast 2 FAQ

General Questions

What is Icecast?

Icecast, the project, is a collection of programs and libraries for streaming audio over the Internet. This includes:

icecast, a program that streams audio data to listeners
libshout, a library for communicating with Icecast servers
IceS, a program that sends audio data to Icecast servers

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.

What is icecast, the program?

icecast streams audio to listeners, and is compatible with Nullsoft`s Shoutcast.

What is libshout ?

From the README:

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 pr
Icecast v2.x Documentation

Icecast 2 Server Statistics

Overview

This section contains information about the server statistics available from icecast. An example stats XML tree will be shown and each element will be described. The following example stats tree will