This evening, I’m contacted by one of my friend via YahooMessenger because I put a status about searching an Indonesia VPS provider, and from the conversation he teach me to install Icecast in a vps.
The tutorial is based from here, and since this is the first time I’m configuring Icecast, I thought it’s a good way to wrote the tutorial. And this is performed in a VPS from ServerHub with the following :
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Promo Servers - LEB-1R Linux 1 1 CPU Core 1024MB RAM 512MB Burst 65GB Diskspace 1000GB Bandwidth 100Mbit Port Speed 1 IPv4 Address 8 IPv6 Addresses OpenVZ/SolusVM $3.99/Month Location : Phoenix Operating System : Debian 6 32bit |
Initial setup for preparing the required package for my Debian 6 VPS :
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# apt-get install gcc make zip openvpn build-essential pkg-config libxml2-dev icecast2 ezstream |
Configuring Icecast2
Icecast2 configuration is located at /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml, and we need to configure the password in that file
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<authentication> <!-- Sources log in with username 'source' --> <source-password>your_passworda</source-password> <!-- Relays log in username 'relay' --> <relay-password>your_password</relay-password> <!-- Admin logs in with the username given below --> <admin-user>admin</admin-user> <admin-password>password_for_admin</admin-password> </authentication> |
Starting Icecast2 after reboot
To make Icecast2 started automatically after reboot, we need to change the Icecast startup file /etc/default/icecast2
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# 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 |
Test run the Icecast2
We need to make sure that Icecast can run, to start it, use the following command :
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# service icecast2 restart or # /etc/init.d/icecast2 restart |
By default, Icecast will run at port 8000, so try to visit your IP:8000 , http://ip.address.of.vps:8000
Creating Playlist and configuring ezstream
We will use an addon named ezstream, and this is the tutorial for installing ezstream :
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Install libogg : # wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.1.tar.gz # tar xf libogg-1.3.1.tar.gz # cd libogg* # ./configure # make && make install Install libvorbis : # wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz # tar xf libvorbis-1.3.3.tar.gz # cd libvorbis* # ./configure # make && make install Install libshout : # wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/libshout/libshout-2.3.1.tar.gz # tar xf libshout-2.3.1.tar.gz # cd libshout* # ./configure # make && make install Install ezstream : # wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ezstream/ezstream-0.5.6.tar.gz # tar xf ezstream-0.5.6.tar.gz # cd ezstream* # ./configure # make && make install |
Saving mp3 files. we can use any folder, but for this tutorial I use /home/mp3
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# cd /home # mkdir mp3 # cd /home/mp3 |
Creating playlists :
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# nano /home/mp3/playlist.txt /home/mp3/song1.mp3 /home/mp3/song2.mp3 /home/mp3/song3.mp3 /home/mp3/song4.mp3 |
Configuring ezstream
By default, we already have ezstream configuration examples located at /usr/share/doc/ezstream/examples, so we can copy and configure it :
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# cp /usr/share/doc/ezstream/examples/ezstream_mp3.xml /root/ezstream_mp3.xml |
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# nano /root/ezstream_mp3.xml <!-- EXAMPLE: MP3 playlist stream WITHOUT reencoding This example streams a playlist that contains only MP3 files. No other file formats may be listed. Since ezstream will not be doing any reencoding, the resulting stream format (bitrate, samplerate, channels) will be of the respective input files. --> <ezstream> <url>http://ip.address.of.vps:8000/stream</url> <!-- If a different user name than "source" should be used, set it in <sourceuser/>: --> <!-- <sourceuser>mr_stream</sourceuser> --> <sourcepassword>your_password</sourcepassword> <format>MP3</format> <filename>/home/mp3/playlist.txt</filename> <!-- Once done streaming playlist.m3u, exit: --> <stream_once>0</stream_once> <!-- The following settings are used to describe your stream to the server. It's up to you to make sure that the bitrate/samplerate/channels information matches up with your input stream files. Note that <svrinfoquality /> only applies to Ogg Vorbis streams. --> <svrinfoname>Server Name</svrinfoname> <svrinfourl>http://www.yoururl.com</svrinfourl> <svrinfogenre>RockNRoll</svrinfogenre> <svrinfodescription>As you wish</svrinfodescription> <svrinfobitrate>64</svrinfobitrate> <svrinfochannels>5</svrinfochannels> <svrinfosamplerate>44100</svrinfosamplerate> <!-- Prohibit the server to advertise the stream on a public YP directory: --> <svrinfopublic>0</svrinfopublic> </ezstream> |
Set the permisson of ezstream_mp3.xml to 0644 or 0755
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# chmod 0644 ezstream_mp3.xml or # chmod 0755 ezstream_mp3.xml |
Starting ezstream
We need to keep ezstream running while we’re streaming the mp3, so we need to run it in background by using “screen”.
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# screen -S "stream" # ezstream -c /root/ezstream_mp3.xml |
Now we have our Icecast ready, to get the playlist, try to visit http://:ip.address.of.vps:8000/stream.m3u or http://ip.address.of.vps:80000/stream.xspf