Streaming to a SHOUTcast server with Pi

I've had a search around in the forums, there are people doing similar projects to what I am hoping to acheive, but in reverse and using the Pi as a server as opposed to an encoder.

What I'm looking to do, is using my Model B Pi (512MB Edition), capture audio from my USB sound card device, and stream it to a Shoutcast server to broadcast.

I've heard of "MuSE" however from what i've looked at, it appears more of a multi-track sound editor rather than stream encoder.

I could just be looking in the wrong place within the software, but I thought it's definately worth asking here, there's bound to be somebody who knows what to do.


I was using a Windows machine before, using some free software called "Edcast" and another called "Oddcast" which were freely available from SourceForge but since the original software isn't available any more, I can't find any references to it being available on a Linux platform hence the search for an alternative.

I look forward to your responses.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=72909



I've heard of "MuSE" however from what i've looked at, it appears more of a multi-track sound editor rather than stream encoder. There are at least two projects using the name "Muse", the multi-track wav/midi editor - http://muse-sequencer.org/ and the Streaming Engine - http://www.dyne.org/software/muse/. I think the latter is what you're looking for. I have tested it and it doesn't work on a Raspberry Pi, it's too CPU hungry.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=63102&p=469099#p469099

I use Darkice myself, which is available in the repositories. I stream to Icecast servers, but it can do Shoutcast too.

Darkice doesn't have support for MP3 or AAC out of the box, due to licensing, but it's fairly easy to build it yourself following these write-ups if you need it:

http://www.t3node.com/blog/live-streaming-mp3-audio-with-darkice-and-icecast2-on-raspberry-pi/

https://sites.google.com/site/glyman3home/raspi-streaming-to-broadcastify




Darkice is quite good (as mentioned) but the way it pre-buffers the stream is poorly designed.
Basically if you run Darkice for 3 hours you'll have a 3 hour ogg buffer file eating up your disk space even though pre-buffering only really requires 10 - 15 seconds of audio per client.
mp3 and aac+ support are missing from the build probably due to licensing malarkey but ogg isn't too bad unless you're using flash player.
Some capture devices don't play nicely with certain sample rates which you'll notice if playback sounds skippy / missed samples on playback