How can I run Icecast as a Service on Windows? Administration How can I view the stream status page? How do I get started with the Icecast configuration? What happened to the Windows GUI? I only see a black window with some text. How do I set up Icecast? Wearfit troubleshooting What is libshout? What is IceS? Setup What platforms are supported? Icecast is being developed on Linux and Windows, and is being tested with major Unices. This includes: Icecast, a program that streams audio and video data to listeners libshout, a library for communicating with Icecast servers IceS, a program that sends audio data to Icecast servers What is Icecast, the program? We maintain a list of Icecast-compatible audio players here. Most mordern audio players should be able to play Icecast streams without problems, depending on the format you are streaming in.
If you are a Windows user, make sure you started the Icecast server and then click on the shortcut in the Startmenu, it will open the Icecats status page in your browser.
Please see this Wiki page for instruction how to set up Icecast as a service using a third party service manager. We do not have service capabilities in Icecast anymore, currently. The black window with text you see is the command line running the Icecast server, just keep that window open. Icecast used to have a graphical user interface on Windows, but that was deprecated in 2. Most problems occur when over-configuring Icecast. You should start with the default config and only change the passwords. Please read the next question for more advise. Go to the Icecast Documentation Page and follow the instructions for your Icecast version there. 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.Īs already mentioned, Spotify and co.
IceS is a program that sends audio data to an icecast server to broadcast to clients. It handles the socket connection, the timing of the data, and prevents bad data from getting to the Icecast server.