First install the iceacast2

sudo apt-get install icecast2

Edit the /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml with your favorite editor.Most value work by default.We need to change passwords for sources relay and admin.The port for the radioserver and mount points.

gedit /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml

[...] <authentication> <!-- Sources log in with username 'source' --> <source-password>password1</source-password> <!-- Relays log in username 'relay' --> <relay-password>password2</relay-password> <!-- Admin logs in with the username given below --> <admin-user>admin</admin-user> <admin-password>password3</admin-password> </authentication> <!-- You may have multiple <listener> elements --> <listen-socket> <port>8010</port> <shoutcast-mount>/stream</shoutcast-mount> <shoutcast-mount>/mintpenguins.mp3</shoutcast-mount> </listen-socket> [...]

Edit the /etc/default/icecast2 and set your icecast enable

# Defaults for icecast2 initscript [...] # Edit /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml and change at least the passwords. # Change this to true when done to enable the init.d script ENABLE=true

Your icecast2 is set we can start the service

/etc/init.d/icecast2 start

Let's install our Ezcast that will be our playlist (we can also use DarkIces or Ices).
The one i use and work smooth is the ezstream_0.5.6 (click to download the .deb file)

Configure ezstream.

<ezstream> <url>http://metal2k.org:8010/mintpenguins.mp3</url>#stream <sourcepassword>[my password]</sourcepassword>#stream password <format>MP3</format> <filename>/home/mintpenguins/songs.txt</filename>#the playlist text file <stream_once>0</stream_once> <metadata_format>@s@</metadata_format> <svrinfoname>Mint penguins Radio</svrinfoname>#info for our radio <svrinfourl>http://mintpenguins.com</svrinfourl>#Information site <svrinfogenre>Tux Lounge</svrinfogenre>#genre Rock,Pop loung... <svrinfodescription>Relax Radio for penguins</svrinfodescription>#Setting this will add the specified description to the stats (and therefore YP) for this mountpoint even if the source client/relay provide one. <svrinfobitrate>128</svrinfobitrate>#our bitrate <svrinfochannels>2</svrinfochannels> <svrinfosamplerate>44100</svrinfosamplerate>#sample rate <svrinfopublic>0</svrinfopublic>#A setting of 0 will prevent any advertising and a setting of 1 will force it to advertise <shuffle>0</shuffle>#0 , 1 soufle the playlist </ezstream>

Create our playlist text file ,find the mp3 files and add to a text file called songs.txt

find /path/to/music -name *.mp3 >/path/to/songs.txt

If everything went well we are ready to start our mount point and enjoy our radio.

ezstream -c /path/to/ezstream_conf_file.xml &

You can make a launcher for your mount point or a create shell to start after boot (in that case is wise to use a delay)

Tip #1
I use as mount point names .mp3 example: mintpenguins.mp3 (some flash players can not deliver without mp3 extension)

Tip #2
How to show info of our streams in a web page with php.
First create a file in /usr/share/icecast2/web i named it json-MintPenguinsStream.xsl

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0"><xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="text" indent="no" media-type="text/javascript" encoding="UTF-8"/><xsl:strip-space elements="*"/><xsl:template match="/icestats"> <xsl:for-each select="source">~Mount :<xsl:value-of select="@mount"/>~Radio:<xsl:value-of select="server_name"/>~Listeners :<xsl:value-of select="listeners"/>~<xsl:value-of select="server_description" />~Artist :<xsl:if test="artist">~<xsl:value-of select="artist" /> - </xsl:if><xsl:value-of select="title" />~Genre :<xsl:value-of select="genre" />~Bitrate :<xsl:value-of select="bitrate" />~Server url:<xsl:value-of select="server_url" /><xsl:if test="position() != last()"><xsl:text>,</xsl:text></xsl:if></xsl:for-each></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>

Then make in the server a php file to show the informations of your stream

$data = file_get_contents('http://[myserver]:[port]/json-MintPenguinsStream.xsl'); $myArray = explode('~', $data); echo "All data".$data."or just some info for ex:".$myArray[3];

With $myArray you can found all the info you need artist,mount point,song....

All modern browsers support just http://server:port/stream.mp3
but in  html5 is very easy

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <audio controls> <source src="http://metal2k.org:8010/vrouwtotaal.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio> </body> </html>
Hope you like our quick tutorial.Have fun and enjoy IceCast2.