Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hello.
I've wasted so many hours googleing for my problem but no luck so far. So I've finally decided to ask about this in forums.

I would like to stream the very music I'm currently playing to a icecast/shoutcast or whatever. Basically, I'd like others to hear exactly what I hear.

How to do this (is it even possible)? and what should I change in my configuration files then. I use alsa, but it wouldn't be a problem to use other engines.

Please reply asap, I need things to be working by friday
thanks in advance

[karlH]

You need an live input encoder like ices2, liveice etc to capture from the dsp. Configure you mixer settings so that the source of the capture is a mix of what is available (eg Mix and capture settings in alsa)

karl.

[Anonymous]

Thanx for a fast response. I tried livecast but no luck. It says that it's unable to open sound device. Any suggestions what I should do?

[karlH]

You need to check into that error in more detail, it could be that you have that device already open with something else and you haven't configured alsa to allow sharing of the devices between apps or you could have a hardware issue. Check with alternative approaches like aoss or arecord.

karl.

[Anonymous]

I closed rhythmbox and liveice started working mybe you could give me some hints about how to allow alsa to share devices between apps?

[karlH]

There will be people/docs etc that will be far better than me at going through that over at www.alsa-project.org. I'm surprised your distribution is not already setup for it. It may be the case that you just need to run "aoss liveice ..." but you didn't say anything about that.

karl.