[LAU] Linux radio / streaming tips?

[drew Roberts]

On Monday 28 January 2013 06:29:30 Dan MacDonald wrote:
> Yesterday I had a small local radio station get in touch with me as they're
> looking to switch from Windows to Linux for their streaming server. I'll be
> helping them out just as a favour and because it sounds like it could be
> fun but I don't really have any experience with the various Linux streaming
> solutions so I thought I'd post on here to see if anyone has any tips?
>
> I've not been down to check out their existing setup but I don't think they
> want much more than to be able to stream recordings and Skype. I think
> Skype lacks JACK support so maybe that will require a bit of messing to get
> it to play nicely (if we use a JACK based streaming solution).
>
> Did the OSM podcast guys ever do a write-up/ HOWTO I could read? Any other
> good resources for those setting up a small, Linux-based radio station?

Get to know the Rivendell folks.

IRC #rivendell on freenode

http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.paravelsystems.com/

I use darkice and icecast2 here.

Have seen people suggesting liquidsoap in place of darkice iirc.

all the best,

drew