How to Create an Internet Radio Station
This tutorial will help you set up an Internet Radio station on your server. You can create the content and then provide it for your listeners. The example uses an Ubuntu server for the set up.
Step #1: Download the Shoutcast Server (latest version):
http://www.shoutcast.com/download/files.phtml
Copy it to the /usr directory and create a folder called shout:
sudo cp sc_serv_1.9.8_Linux.tar.gz
sudo mkdir shout
cd /usr/shout
tar zxvf sc_serv_1.9.8_Linux.tar.gz
chmod 755 sc_serv
Edit the config File:
vim sc_serv.conf
Password=MakeANewPassword
Be sure you document your password for the furture.
Start the Server:
./sc_serv
You should see that it is running.
Step #2: Create a way to feed Music Into the Server
This will use ices0.4 so you will be able to use mp3s.
http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/ices/ices-0.4.tar.gz
Save the file to the /usr directory.
tar -zxvf ices-0.4.tar.gz
This will create a folder called ices-0.4. Move into this folder.
cd ices-0.4
Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.lst has these sources as you will need them to download the files you need. Use all of the usual sources but be sure these three are included so you can draw from them.
backports main restricted universe multiverse
partner
free non-free
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libshout3 libshout3-dev liblame-dev libxml-dev
Make sure you have a compiler.
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make
Compile ices
Move into the directory that you created.
cd /usr/ices-0.4
./configure –with-lame
If you do not have errors then continue, if you do have errors then download the needed dependencies.
make
sudo make install
Step #3: Create a mp3 Directory
You can create the directory anywhere but one good location might be /mp3.
sudo mkdir /mp3
Copy your mp3s into that location.
find /mp3 -type f -name “*.mp3” > /mp3/playlist.txt
Now edit your config file for ices.
sudo vim /usr/local/etc/ices.conf.dist
Change the Playlist to /mp3
Change the Hostname
Change the Password
Change Protocol to icy
ices -c /usr/local/etc/ices.conf.dist
Typically the port to connect to the radio station is port 8000 but you can change that in the config.
BeginLinux 
After “cd /usr/ices-0.4
./configure –with-lame”
I get the following result:
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C… none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking build system type… Invalid configuration `–with-lame’: machine `–with’ not recognized
configure: error: /bin/bash ./config.sub –with-lame failed
I am not sure what to do now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Oeps, seem to have lost the first few lines:
marco@marco-desktop:~$ cd /usr/ices-0.4/
marco@marco-desktop:/usr/ices-0.4$ ./configure –with-lame
configure: WARNING: you should use –build, –host, –target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: –with-lame
checking for –with-lame-gcc… no
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
I am currently broadcasting at http://www.pirateradionetwork.com with Windows XP on the radio destiny broadcaster. It works great but I hate Windows. I have Ubuntu 8.2 now on an extra hard drive. Do I need my own server and the Sam2 broadcaster to use shoutcast or icecast? I can always get these programs for free from Ares file sharing. Most important, is this buffering audio or a webstream? I have webstream now, its great. I hope a windows emulator will work on Ubuntu for my clipstream broacast.
I dont understand why need shoutcast?
nice ,
I did this several years ago on my own with ices0 and icecaster streaming .ogg , and has been streaming audio over ip as an
“STL” -> (Station To Transmitter Link)
for my leagal FM RADIO Station KTRT 97.5 in Winthrop WA,
running rivendell radio station automation system
on ubuntu ,,,(what was suse 10)
now ubuntu 8.04,
lots of work,
but it runs great and saves me thousands upon thousands
we now have 4 terabytes of audio
i need to update the streamer to somthing that will do mp3 streames soon and put it on a public access server , i am thinking to use fluendo streaming server, i guess its just a plugin to gstreamer in ubuntu
i got this error when i run ./configure -with-lame
checking for pkg-config… /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
configure: /usr/local/bin/pkg-config couldn’t find libshout. Try adjusting PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
checking for shout-config… no
configure: error: Could not find a usable libshout
Guys, how other people can connect to my radio via internet???
I didn’t understand that part.
Très simple tu leur donne ton ip (ip du serveur) et ensuite ils ouvrent lecteur windows média ou vlc ou winamp après il clique sur ouvrir url et là ils mettent l’ip du serveur tout simplement.
Hi, what links must i set in source.list?
because when i use sudo apt-get install libshout3 libshout3-dev liblame-dev libxml-dev
it says that the files not found in list..
sry for my bad english.. pls help me!
Better off with something like ustream.