I am currently using winamp/shoutcast on my xp box to stream mp3's over the web but ideally want to make this happen on my linux box (running fedora core 3 behind a linksys router). I have my mp3 collection on a mounted drive installed on the box (/music/tunes/).

Can anyone let me in on what the best way to do this is over linux and what products are out there that make it very very simple?

TIA!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

The first link looks like one to a Linux Shoutcast server. Sadly, shoutcast.com is blocked for me where I work. But that looks like it will help you out. There's a howto in those search results somewhere too.

Jason

For a long time I used icecast2, ices2, and ices to stream an online radio station.

icecast is the server that sets up the ports, web management interface, etc.

ices is the program that actually does the streaming of the mp3 file to the icecast server. ices2 is the program that streams ogg files ... it doesn't stream mp3 files. I used port 8000 as the ogg stream and port 8001 for the mp3 stream.

I kept all the song information in a mysql database along with lyric text and cover images.

By parsing information out of the log files generated by the above programs I was able to create a website that dynamically changed when the music changed, showing the cover photo of the album, the song title, lyrics, author(s), etc.

http://www.icecast.org/


-- Tony

Can you provide me wit ha tutorial in setting up icecast? I am a newbie and want to make sure the install goes smoothly.

Also, would love to check out your site, send me a link if you want to share it.

Thanks!

/etc/icecast.xml is where you go to change the settings
for setting up a stream:
MuSE provides a user friendly but powerful tool for network audio streaming, and they have a redhat RPM
bah2 is a web based playlist creater/editer, It uses css and php so it's easy to change the colors and such
both can be run from outside your network, so long as you set up port forwarding on your router(assuming you have one)

hope that helps