NOTE The remainder of these examples are meant to be run on the machine you Method for configuring your workstation to do just that. If you want the flexibilty of using pulseaudio instead, what follows is a It's worth mentioning that at this point you can easily use aĬonventional player like Internet DJ Console to broadcast, and skip the rest of That's it! Your internet radio station is now waiting for you to start Vim /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml # edit authentication block to set passwords Updated to add the password we will use to authenticate when broadcasting: # as root on the icecast host pointed at it, on which I install icecast2 as root: # as root on the icecast hostīy default, icecast2 will start automatically and only needs to have the config For this, I'm using a cheap Linode VPS with the name The first thing you'll need is an internet-accessible host for running your

the GUI tool pavucontrol (Pulse Audio Volume Control) for managing the inputs and outputs.

the command-line tool darkice for streaming pulseaudio to icecast.

an audio player of your choice, I use rhythmbox but anything will do.

the recording studio: a computer that uses pulseaudio for sound, I use Ubuntu on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon.

the radio station: an internet-accessible host for running icecast2, I use a Linode VPS.

Obviously there are a lot of ways to do this, but if you want to do thingsĮxactly as I did, this is what you'll need: With a significant upside: You can stream the sound from any program you want, It turns out that if you'reĪlready using pulseaudio, this is not that difficult to do! In fact, it comes Work with local files, but I specifically wanted to keep using rhythmbox andĭAAP to play my music, even when broadcasting.

Most tools that make broadcasting easy are designed to When I became interested in internet radio, I learned that my setup wasn'tĬonducive to streaming. Rhythmbox to browse and play my music via this service. In my apartment, exposed to the local network as a DAAP service. I arrived at this solution because I have kind of a weird music set up: MyĬollection of mostly Ogg Vorbis files are on a network-attached storage device This is a tutorial on how to use pulseaudio to stream the audio output of any Become an internet DJ using pulseaudio Tuesday May 26, 2020

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