Streaming "desktop" audio to an icecast server

I want to stream whatever I can hear on my machine to an icecast server. How can I do this?

What audio system do you use? (ALSA,, OSS, PulseAudio, JACK, etc.)
With PulseAudio:
- Run paman (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9045), find and select the 'sink' you are sending audio to, click 'Properties' (in the lower-right corner) and select/copy the 'Monitor Source' name.
- To get at the audio, run:
parec -d MONITOR-SOURCE-NAME --raw |COMMAND-THAT-STREAMS-STDIN-TO-ICECAST
I think you'll have to use ices for this, not darkice. The default output format of parec is 44100 Hz stereo, native-endian signed 16-bit; use 'parec --help' for documentation (the man page seems to be out-of-date).
EDIT: The package you need for ices is ices2 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24156).
Last edited by rransom (2010-06-17 10:42:03)

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