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[Steven]

What is shoutcast?

SHOUTcast is Nullsoft's Free Winamp-based distributed streaming audio system. Thousands of broadcasters around the world are waiting for you to tune in and listen.

How do we install shoutcast?

Generally you dont want to run shoutcast as root as that can be really bad. so we create a shoutcast user:

1.) Login to root
2.) adduser shoutcast
3.) passwd shoutcast

Now it will ask for a new password set this and remember it.

Now login as the new shoutcast user.


Installing shoutcast:

Lets grab shoutcast from nullsoft:

wget http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads/s...-glibc6.tar.gz

Lets extract shoutcast:

tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz

Lets tidy up the directory:

rm -rf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
mv shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6 shoutcast
cd shoutcast

How to configure shoutcast?

your going to want to edit the shoutcast configuration.

pico sc_serv.conf
or
nano sc_serv.conf

depending on what you have.

Ok lets set some important configureation options. Change these settings in the file:

MaxUser
Password
PortBase

uncomment AdminPassword and set an admin password.

Now at this point you can go threw the settings and change them to what you want or you can save and start shoutcast and it will work perfectly.

to save crtl+x

How do i start shoutcast?

./sc_serv sc_serv.conf


Enjoy

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[Esr Tek]

Now thats a handy How-to... thanks for taking time to put this together

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[choon]

thelinuxguy, many thanks for this nice HOWTO

[Akash]

I don't know what category this woudl go in?

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[choon]

I think Technical is more appropriate?

[CCF Hosting]

Hello,

What if I wanted to offer something liket his as a service. How can I support multiple shoutcast servers? I am pretty sure you can bind a server to an IP and use the same port, but how do you keep track of them all?

Also, what does the adminpassword do compared the the password?

Thanks and God Bless!

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[Slidey]

rather than giving it a password, and then logging in as that user with a password, would it not be easier and mroe secure to adduser shoutcast, then su - shoutcast ?

that way theres 1 less account on your system that can be used for an attempted breakin..

[hostito]

I did this a couple months ago and forgot a bit so forgive me

./sc_serv should do it.

Did you install the streamer bit? It is another tar ball you need to get for making play lists and such. Other wise you can only stream mp3s. I think that is how I recall it...

There should be a second tar ball that allows you to make lists and such, I wish I could remember what it was called, I set this up for a friend of mine. I found out about it after many hours of searching on their forum.

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[CCF Hosting]

Hello,

What I am looking at is, setting up one shoutcast server per streaming client. Then give a dedicated IP and have them stream from that. But, how do I manage all of the Shoutcast servers, since each one would be seperate from each other?

Thanks and God Bless!

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[Steven]

well you can make separate configs, and in the configs bind separate ips. then

./sc_serv config1.conf
./sc_serv config2.conf
./sc_serv config3.conf
./sc_serv config4.conf

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[RYZER.NET]

Now you can run shoutcast in the background like this:

nohup /home/$ACCOUNT/SHOUTcast/sc_serv >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Or as another user, like this:

su - $ACCOUNT -c "nohup /home/$ACCOUNT/SHOUTcast/sc_serv >/dev/null 2>&1 &"

Regards,
Ryzer

[Veus]

Does anyone know what option it is in the config to allow http access? As ive followed this however when i enter the ip of my box followed by the portbase number nothing comes up.

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[XMediaTech]

Ok,

how do you set up the server to random play the playlist?

I believe there needs to be a dsp pluggin and possibly a player xmms?

I have the shoutcast server running but no go yet as for stream

I have had a Windoze shoutcast station running for two years, now trying to make the jump to a real linux shoutcast server.

thanx for any help guys

cheers

Drew

[hostito]

You should be able to either stream up to it, but there is also a plugin that does what you want, I found it looking through their forums, it is not too clear...

I will see if I can dig up a copy of it somewhere and see what the name of it is

[XMediaTech]

The above linux shoutcast server is easy to set up for relaying a stream.

Normally the Winamp client uses the DSP plugin to encode MP3 files and send a single stream to a DNAS Server (Shoutcast) for distribution to listeners.

Download the SHOUTcast DSP Plug-In for Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD

Drew