|  |  |  | # DarkIce ## 1. What Is DarkIce? DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server. DarkIce can record from: OSS audio devices ALSA audio devices Solaris audio interface Jack sources uLaw audio input through a serial interface CoreAudio (branch darkice-macosx) DarkIce can encode in the following formats: MP3 - using the lame library MP2 - using the twolame library Ogg Vorbis AAC LC - using the faac library AAC HEv2 - using libaacplus library Opus - using Xiph's libopus library Vorbis - using Xiph's libvorbis library DarkIce can send the encoded stream to the following streaming servers: ShoutCast IceCast 1.3.x and 2.x Darwin Streaming Server archive the encoded audio in files Darkice runs on the following operating systems: FreeBSD Linux MacOS X NetBSD / OpenBSD Solaris DarkIce initial author is Ákos Maróy DarkIce current author and maintainer is Rafael Diniz. ## 2. Status DarkIce is considered stable, it has been used since fall 2000 in production 24 hours per day. The latest version is 1.3, check out the ChangeLog. There is a GTK frontend made by Rafael Diniz, called DarkSnow. DarkSnow. ## 3. Discussion For questions & feedback on DarkIce, please join the darkice-list mailing list. Should you find any issues with DarkIce, please submit a bug or feature request at Git Issues page. ## 4. Support If you feel that DarkIce is having a good effect on your online streaming radio, feel free to donate some money to allow further development. Thank you! Btw, we already received a donation! ## 5. Download You can download DarkIce releases from the project's download page. Download the source tarball darkice-1.3.tar.gz and compile it. If you like to live on the edge, you can check the git repository at github: git clone https://github.com/rafael2k/darkice.git DarkIce is © Copyright Tyrell Hungary and Rafael Diniz and Ákos Maróy under the GNU General Public Licence version 3. This page last updated: 04/08/2016. |  |  |  |