On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, David Simpson wrote: > On 2/01/2011 11:16 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: >> I have followed this tutorial to install icecast on Centos >> 5.5, >> >> http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_webradio_with_icecast2_ices2 >> >> but cannot find the ices package for sending the audio >> to icecast for it to stream. >> >> I would like to send the data as mp3, if there is a suitable >> program to do this. >> > I just went through this, and could not find a package for ices. In the > end I downloaded and compiled DarkIce (once the development libraries > were installed) http://code.google.com/p/darkice > > Only thing that caught me out, was that you need to specify the output > device in the DarkIce config file as an icecast2 server, or you get a > message about opening underlying sink error. > > Now happily streaming mp3 data. > > Good Luck > > David I'm doing the same thing for broadcasting my NOAA weather radio stations around me. It just works. Icecast and Darkice are excellent. And David's right: use the Icecast2 server. Cheers! Gilbert ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************