|  |  |  | # 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 - using the faac library AAC HEv2 - using libaacplus 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 on intel and PowerPC MacOS X NetBSD / OpenBSD SUN 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 1.0, 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 our Trac system. ## 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! ## 5. Download DarkIce is © Copyright Tyrell Hungary and Rafael Diniz and Ákos Maróy under the GNU General Public Licence version 3. You can download DarkIce releases from the project's download page. Download the source tarball darkice-1.0.tar.gz and compile it. You will also need lame (version 3.89 or above), twolame (version 0.3.6 or above), Ogg Vorbis and faac libs. I used the following libs: lame-3.96.1.tar.gz twolame-0.3.6.tar.gz libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz libvorbis-1.1.0.tar.gz faac-1.24.zip If you like to live on the edge, you can check the subversion repository: svn checkout http://darkice.googlecode.com/svn/darkice/trunk/ darkice This page last updated: $Date$. |  |  |  |