Setting up icecast+liveice so I can stream music from my PC to the internet. A simple
sudo apt-get install -y liveice icecast-server
installs the software. Use
makepasswd --crypt
to make a password and a hash of that password for the icecast server. Edit the /etc/icecast/icecast.conf to put the hashed password in there. Set port, hostname, and server_name. I used my dyndns hostname for my server name and used 8888 for my port. I was sure to open that port on my firewall and forward it on my nat/router. Restart the server with
sudo /etc/init.d/icecast-server start
Check the logs with
tail -f /var/log/icecast/icecast.log
That will let you know if you have password errors connecting to the icecast server.
Now edit the file $HOME/.liveice.cfg by starting with the example found on the internets. Some of the values I put in are:
SERVER localhost PORT 8888 X_AUDIOCAST_LOGIN PASSWORD XXXXXXXXXXXX MOUNTPOINT /x NO_SOUNDCARD MIXER PLAYLIST /home/hal/playlist.pl
Be sure to set all the values, not just the ones I listed.
#!/bin/sh
# $HOME/bin/startliveice.sh
# DTPD
DIR="/d/music/"
find "${DIR}" -name '*.mp3' \
| ${HOME}/bin/randomize-list.py \
> ${HOME}/playlist.pl
exec liveice -F ${HOME}/.liveice.cfg \
2> /dev/null
Now you're ready to start the liveice program. Read /usr/share/doc/liveice/README.liveice.gz to find out the commands for the curses frontend.
Check that it's working with
mplayer -quiet -cache 32 http://127.0.0.1:8888/x
If I'm broadcasting, check me at at
http://halcanary.dyndns.org:8888/x
.