Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm a technician on a research ship with a 128K link to the outside world. Because of this, letting people listen to the radio via the Internet isn't really an option - two people doing this would kill it.

What I thought about doing was hooking a short-wave or World Space receiver up to a Linux laptop, and somehow getting that to stream what the receiver put out.

I'm assuming all I'd need to do is run apache as a web server, plus the icecast software, and liveice or ices, which would simply re-broadcast whatever came in the microphone port.

How simple/difficult is it for a newbie to icecast (but not Linux) to make this happen?

Thanks!

Paul
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[Anonymous]

I don't think it'd be anymore difficult if you configure a sound server (oss or alsa) as a streaming source. Then it will stream whatever comes out of the soundcard. Hook your shortwave up the the microphone jack of the computer and there you go. Sounds like a cool solution to me! You could also play archived music off the PC at the same time as the shortwave, leaving your listeners a choice.

I just configured icecast for the first time. It's fairly straightforward