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If you are looking for a streaming media platform for the internet, you can consider Shoutcast. It is a cross platform proprietary software quite commonly used for the purpose.
- Login to root
- add user shoutcast
- passwd shoutcas
B. After that it will inquire you a new password. You have to set the password and remember it. Then you will have to login as the new shoutcast user.
C. Grab shoutcast from nullsoft : wget http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads/s…-glibc6.tar.gz
D. Extract shoutcast : tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
E. Tidy up the directory:
rm -rf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
mv shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6 shoutcast
cd shoutcast
3. How to configure SHOUTcast?
A. If you wish to edit the shoutcast configuration follow the the steps below:
pico sc_serv.conf
or
nano sc_serv.conf
B. Then fixed some essential configuration options. Change the following settings in the file:
- MaxUser
- Password
- PortBase
C. Reset your Admin password.
D. At this stage you can change all the settings and set them to what you want. You can even save the settings and start shoutcast- it will work just fine. To save the settings, you must use crtl+x.
