What is Icecast - page one

This is a short article on installing, configuring and running an Icecast streaming server on Debian. Everything I describe here should work on Debian 7 with Icecast 2.3.2 and or Icecast Release 2.4-beta3, however I used Icecast server version 2.3.2 on Debian 6.0.7

What is icecast?
Icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia. It currently supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station, a stream for freinds and family, or your own private playlist stream. I use Icecast to stream my favorite music within my home. By using an audio stream I can listen to my music on any device within my home.

In this article comments and instructions are in this font; commands you enter are in bold, and settings in config files you enter or verify are in italic bold .


I am  going to install Icecast and all acillery programs on an OpenVZ virtualized instance of Debian 6.0.7. To find out more about virtualiation see my article; "OpenVZ on Debian" here; http://openvzondeb.blogspot.ca/

To jump to a particular topic or page in this article;
What is Icecast                                      - page one
Installing and configuring Icecast                   - page two
The web interface                                    - page three
source clients and what they do                      - page four
setting up on server music directories               - page five
Ices2, installation, configuration, and use          - page six
Ezstream, installation, configuration and use        - page seven
using off streaming server music sources             - page eight
Ezstream source from a windows machine               - page nine
VLC source from a windows machine                    - page ten
multiple streams                                     - page eleven
references                                           - page twelve