Online Radio – Howto

 

Here’s a howto for setting up your own online internet radio station. This was done on a CentOS 6.2 platform but it’s pretty much the same for others as well. Most of the installs are source compiles, yum has been used for some libraries you could use your favourite package manager on your server.

Config files and installation service are available on request. We will be refining this project over time adding much much more funtionality and software to the web player. for now enjoy this player here:

Prepare the server for greatness

  •  yum -y install bzip2-devel ncurses-devel aspell pspell expat-devel gmp-devel freetype-devel flex-devel ruby-libs ruby gd-devel subversion libjpeg-devel libpng-devel gcc-c++ gcc-cpp curl-devel libxml2-devel libtool-ltdl-devel httpd-devel pcre-devel libc-client-devel unixODBC-devel postresql-devel net-snmp-devel libxslt-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel atop htop pspell-devel
  • cd /home/imtiaz/src/; wget http://space.dl.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.98.4/lame-3.98.4.tar.gz
  • tar -zxf lame-3.98.4.tar.gz
  • cd lame-3.98.4
  • ./configure
  • make
  • make install
  • yum install libshout-devel, flac-devel, perl-devel, python-devel, libmp4v2-devel

add a user which will be used to run everything

  • useradd ice
  • passwd ice

start working on the streaming server setup as the user from above

  • su – ice
  • mkdir src
  • cd src
  • wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.3.2.tar.gz
  • wget http://www.centova.com/clientdist/ices/ices-cc-0.4.1.tar.gz
  • tar -zxf icecast-2.3.2.tar.gz
  • tar -zxf ices-cc-0.4.1.tar.gz

setup icecast

  • cd icecast-2.3.2
  • ./configure –prefix=/home/ice/srv
  • make
  • make install

build a local copy of flac 1.1.2(or lower) as ices wont work with latest versions of flac

  • cd ..
  • wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/flac/flac-src/flac-1.1.2-src/flac-1.1.2.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fflac%2Ffiles%2Fflac-src%2Fflac-1.1.2-src%2F&ts=1338063039&use_mirror=space
  • tar -zxf flac-1.1.2.tar.gz
  • cd flac-1.1.2
  • ./configure –prefix=$HOME/srv
  • make
  • make install

build ices

  • cd ../ices-cc-0.4.1
  • make distclean
  • ./configure –prefix=/home/ice/srv –with-flac=/home/ice/srv
  • make
  • make install

work on the housekeeping

  • export PATH=/home/ice/srv/bin/:$PATH
  • cd srv
  • cd etc/
  • vi icecast.xml
  • cd
  • mkdir -p /home/ice/srv/var/log/icecast
  • chmod -R 755 /home/ice/srv/var

Launch icecast

  • /home/ice/srv/bin/icecast -c /home/ice/srv/etc/icecast.xml -b

(-b sends it to the background, icecast.xml will need to be editted for passwords etc.)

playlist setup and directory structure for music files and playlists

  • cd
  • mkdir media
  • cd media
  • mkdir pls
  • cd ~/srv/bin
  • vi mp3list
  • cd ~/media
  • cd music

##(remove spaces from name of songs)

  • find . -name ‘* *’ | while read file; do target=`echo “$file” | sed ‘s/ /_/g’`; echo “Renaming ‘$file’ to ‘$target'”; mv “$file” “$target”; done;
  • cd ~srv
  • cd bin
  • chmod 755 mp3list

##(generate the playlist)

  • ./mp3list ~/media/music/1 1

(write the config file for the stream)

  • cd ~/srv/etc/
  • mkdir stubs
  • cd stubs
  • vi 1.conf

Launch ices

  • cd
  • srv/bin/ices -c srv/etc/stubs/1.conf

Create the webpage for the demo embedded player

  • su –
  • cd /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs/
  • mkdir radio
  • cd radio
  • vi 1.htm
  • chmod 755 radio -R

That is it, your radio is online and you can tune in by going to the mountpoint you setup in the ices configuration you used. If you need assistance with this setup please mail us on R at NetBrix dot net. Lots of improvements on the way in the meanwhile enjoy this online radio channel

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