Streaming Radio Howto

by Asbesto & Fruity - Dyne.org, Freaknet.org, Radiocybernet.org, Poetry Hacklab

TCPC9, Palazzolo Acreide, Oct 4, 2009

Software to use

Server side

• Icecast2

Client side

• MuSE
• Darkice

Configs

Server side

Icecast 2

This is only the mountpoint configuration.

<!-- asbesto, radiocybernet -->

<mount>
        <mount-name>/rcyb.mp3</mount-name>

<!--        <username>asbesto</username>
            <password>porcodio</password> -->

            <intro>radiocybernet/intro.mp3</intro>

            <max-listeners>1000</max-listeners>
            <fallback-mount>/radiocybernet-oldies.mp3</fallback-mount>
            <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
            <fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
</mount>
                                
<mount>
        <mount-name>/radiocybernet-oldies.mp3</mount-name>
        <max-listeners>1000</max-listeners>
        <hidden>0</hidden>
</mount>

Client side

VLC

(to be added)

MuSE

Command line streaming tool "Strimma" by Asbesto

echo "strimma v0.1 (c) 2002 Gabriele Zaverio (asbesto@freaknet.org)"
muse -e mp3 -D 3 -o -C -b 16 -q 4 -i \
     -f rcyb-`date +%d%b%Y-%H%M%S`.mp3 \
        -s radio.dyne.org:8000 -m rcyb.mp3 -U source -p revolution \
        -n radiocybernet_LIVE_NOW

#        -s indivia.net:8000 -m rcyb -p xxxxxx \
#        -n radiocybernet_HACKIT2005_NAPOLI \
# questo per strimmare su 2 server contemporaneamente analmente hackit03

(work in progress)

Darkice config file

This is the config file for darkice under Linux, to stream on radio.dyne.org:

# sample DarkIce configuration file, edit for your needs before using
# see the darkice.cfg man page for details

# this section describes general aspects of the live streaming session
[general]
duration        = 0        # duration of encoding, in seconds. 0 means forever
bufferSecs      = 5         # size of internal slip buffer, in seconds
reconnect       = yes       # reconnect to the server(s) if disconnected

# this section describes the audio input that will be streamed
[input]
device          = /dev/dsp  # OSS DSP soundcard device for the audio input
sampleRate      = 22050     # sample rate in Hz. try 11025, 22050 or 44100
bitsPerSample   = 16        # bits per sample. try 16
channel         = 1         # channels. 1 = mono, 2 = stereo

# this section describes a streaming connection to an IceCast2 server
# there may be up to 8 of these sections, named [icecast2-0] ... [icecast2-7]
# these can be mixed with [icecast-x] and [shoutcast-x] sections
[icecast2-0]
bitrateMode     = cbr       # avr=average bit rate
format          = mp3 #vorbis    # format of the stream: ogg vorbis
bitrate         = 32        # bitrate of the stream sent to the server
server          = radio.dyne.org
                            # host name of the server
port            = 8000      # port of the IceCast2 server, usually 8000
password        = revolution    # source password to the IceCast2 server
mountPoint      = rcyb.mp3  # mount point of this stream on the IceCast2 server
name            = Radio Cybernet
                            # name of the stream
description     = Test from tcpc9
                            # description of the stream
url             = http://www.radiocybernet.org
                            # URL related to the stream
genre           = live    # genre of the stream
public          = yes       # advertise this stream?
localDumpFile   = rcyb.mp3
fileAddDate     = yes