Icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia.

About Icecast 2

Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 audio streams.
It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for commuincation and interaction.

Icecast is distributed under the GNU GPL, version 2.

Icecast Release 2.4.0

We are pleased to announce release 2.4.0 of Icecast. A summary of the changes is listed below, for details please refer to the ChangeLog.

Downloads

• Source: icecast-2.4.0.tar.gz
• Windows icecast_win32_2.4.0.zip

New features

• Support for Ogg Opus streams
• Support for WebM streams
• HTTP 1.1 PUT support for source connections. Deprecating SOURCE method.
• Default mount
  This allows you to define a global set of defaults for all mounts. This way you can use e.g. url-auth for sources and or listeners also for dynamically generated mounts.
• Web interface redone
  • Web output properly redone, credit to ePirat.
  • Added <audio> element for supported audio streams.
  • Now validates completely as XHTML1.0 strict.
  • Improves rendering on mobile devices.
• Added basic JSON API (/status-json.xsl) based on a xml2json template by Doeke Zanstra (see xml2json.xslt). Output is roughly limited to data also visible through status.xsl.
• Send charset in HTTP headers for everything, excluding file-serv and streams.
• Allow (standard strftime(3)) %x codes in <dump-file>. Disabled for win32.
• Added stream_start_iso8601, server_start_iso8601 to statitics. ISO8601 compliante timestamps for statistics. Should make usage in e.g. JSON much easier. Added as new variables to avoid breaking backwards compatibility.
• Now compiles for win32 using mingw
• Added options headers and header_prefix to URL based listener auth.
• Updated listener_remove handler, added ip= and agent=
• Allow full URLs to be returned by the master server.

Fixes

• Security Fix: Override supplementary groups if <changeowner> is used
• Fixes for some race conditions
• Dropped debian packaging directory as debian use their own.
• Send proper HTTP headers in responses to clients.
• Corrected Content-Length header in admin (raw) requests. Thanks to paluh for reporting.
• Escape log entries in access log
• Fixed a memory leak. Lost headers of stream because of wrong ref counter in associated refbuf objects.
• Avoid memory leak in _parse_mount() when type-attribute is set
• Updated web interface to be XHTML compliant.
• Removed status2.xsl from release. It was only a broken example file anyway.

Known issues

• Will crash if certain config tags are left empty.
• Webinterface shows Login when using just stream_auth.

Icecast Release 2.4-beta5

We are pleased to announce a fifth beta release of Icecast.
A summary of the changes is listed below, for details please refer to the ChangeLog.

Please note that while Opus and WebM are considered production ready, there might be other problems in this release. We appreciate feedback and discussion on the icecast-dev mailing list!

Downloads

• Source: icecast-2.4-beta5.tar.gz
• Windows icecast_win32_2.4_beta5.zip

Changes

• New features:
  • Web interface redone
    Web output properly redone, credit to ePirat. Now validates completely as XHTML1.0 strict.
    Also improves rendering on mobile devices.
• Bugfixes:
  • Reverting r18945 for now as using -b breaks things. Reopening #1886, patch needs rework.