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<h1 align="center">DarkIce</h1>
<h2>1. What Is DarkIce?</h2>
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.
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DarkIce can record from:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.opensound.com/">OSS</a> audio devices</li>
<li><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">ALSA</a> audio devices</li>
<li>Solaris audio interface</li>
<li><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">Jack</a> sources</li>
<li>uLaw audio input through a serial interface</li>
<li>CoreAudio (branch darkice-macosx)</li>
</ul>
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DarkIce can encode in the following formats:
<ul>
<li>MP3 - using the <a href="http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3">lame</a>
library</li>
<li>MP2 - using the <a href="http://www.twolame.org/">twolame</a>
library</li>
<li><a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis</a></li>
<li>AAC LC - using the <a href="http://www.audiocoding.com/">faac</a>
library</li>
<li>AAC HEv2 -
using <a href="http://tipok.org.ua/node/17">libaacplus</a> library </li>
<li>Opus - using Xiph's libopus library</li>
<li>Vorbis - using Xiph's libvorbis library</li>
</ul>
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DarkIce can send the encoded stream to the following streaming servers:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.shoutcast.com/">ShoutCast</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.icecast.org/">IceCast</a> 1.3.x and 2.x</li>
<li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/">Darwin
Streaming Server</a></li>
<li>archive the encoded audio in files</li>
</ul>
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Darkice runs on the following operating systems:
<ul>
<li>FreeBSD</li>
<li>Linux</li>
<li>MacOS X</li>
<li>NetBSD / OpenBSD</li>
<li>Solaris</li>
</ul>
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DarkIce initial author is
<a href="mailto:darkeye@users.sourceforge.net">Ákos Maróy</a>
<br>
DarkIce current author and maintainer is <a href="mailto:rafael@riseup.net">Rafael Diniz. </a>
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<h2>2. Status</h2>
DarkIce is considered stable, it has been used since fall 2000 in production 24 hours per day.
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The latest version is <b>1.3</b>, check out the
<a href="https://github.com/rafael2k/darkice/blob/master/darkice/trunk/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>.
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There is a GTK frontend made by Rafael Diniz, called DarkSnow.
<a href="http://darksnow.radiolivre.org/index.en.html">DarkSnow</a>.
<h2>3. Discussion</h2>
For questions & feedback on DarkIce, please join the
<a href="http://www.freelists.org/list/darkice">darkice-list</a>
mailing list.
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Should you find any issues with DarkIce, please submit a bug or feature
request at
Git <a href="https://github.com/rafael2k/darkice/issueshttps://sourceforge.net/p/darkice/tickets/">Issues</a>
page.
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<h2>4. Support</h2>
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.
<b>Thank you! Btw, we already received a donation!</b>
<h2>5. Download</h2>
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You can download DarkIce releases from the project's
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/darkice/files/">download page</a>.
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Download the source tarball
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/darkice/files/darkice/1.3/darkice-1.3.tar.gz/download">darkice-1.3.tar.gz</a>
and compile it.
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If you like to live on the edge, you can check the
git repository at github:</p>
git clone <a href="https://github.com/rafael2k/darkice">https://github.com/rafael2k/darkice.git</a>
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DarkIce is
© Copyright <a href="http://tyrell.hu">Tyrell Hungary</a> and Rafael Diniz and Ákos Maróy
under the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public Licence version 3</a>.
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This page last updated: 04/08/2016.
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