icecast – Make Me Engineer

Broadcast to Icecast / SHOUTcast with Objective-C, C, or C++

June 3, 2023 by Tarik

Comment: It’s about time someone makes a SHOUTcast source client for mobile. I’ve been needing this for a while, but don’t have time to build it, so kudos to you. Please make an Android version at some point. The first thing you should do is download Wireshark. Start the packet capture, fire up a SHOUTcast … Read more

Icecast 2: protocol description, streaming to it using C#

July 16, 2022 by Tarik

As far as I know, there is no protocol spec anywhere, outside of the Icecast source code. Here’s what I’ve found from packet sniffing: Audio Stream The protocol is similar to HTTP. The source client will connect to the server make a request with the mountpoint, and pass some headers with information about the stream: … Read more