icecast8

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the icecast command. It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

icecast is an audio broadcasting system that streams music in the MPEG Layer III format.

The options are as follows:

-b

Force icecast server into the background

-c configuration_file

Use specified configuration file instead of default one (/etc/icecast/icecast.conf)

-d directory

Specifies the directory in which icecast will search for its config files. Default path is /etc/icecast

-l file

icecast will use the given file to store server logs. Default is /var/log/icecast/icecast.log

-p password

Specifies the password used to authenticate stream encoders

-P port

Specifies the port on which the server listens for client connections (default 8000)

Files

/etc/icecast/icecast.conf

Contains configuration data for icecast. The file format and configuration options are described in the html documentation shipped with the package, located in /usr/share/doc/icecast-server

/etc/icecast/mounts.aut

contains configuration data for icecast mountpoints.

/etc/icecast/groups.aut

contains configuration data for icecast groups.

/etc/icecast/users.aut

contains configuration data for icecast users.