Icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia.

Icecast Current Release (2.4.4)

The latest Icecast release can be downloaded below. For Windows there is a binary release in an installer, for Linux/UNIX we provide the sources.

• Icecast for Linux/Unix .tar.gz (2.3 MB), Source Tarball
• Icecast for Windows .exe (5.0 MB), Binary Installer

Linux/Unix Binary Packages

Most current Linux and Unix distributions provide either prebuilt binary packages or a way to build your own package of Icecast.
This is the preferred way to install Icecast, as distribution packaging is tuned to make Icecast fit well into your system. In most cases packaging will also provide necessary scripts/files to make Icecast start as a service on boot.
For details please refer to the package repository section of your distribution’s fine manual.

Official packages of current Icecast

• Xiph.org provides official builds of latest Icecast, packaged for various distributions, using their OBS project for Icecast.
• There are package repositories that can be added to the distro package manager. You can think of it as a “PPA” or whatever your distro calls this.
• Debian and its derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) name the package icecast2.
• Packages are built with openSSL enabled, to ease setting up HTTPS streaming/access.
• Packages are signed by the openSUSE OBS multimedia project GPG key

Other Releases

Older Releases

Older releases can be found here

Source Clients

In addition to Icecast, you will most likely need to download a source client for creating the actual stream. We suggest that you download one from our third-party applications page.

Clone Git Repository

Additionally to the release tarballs we have a public git repository where we do our development, that anyone can clone.

To get the latest development state:

git clone --recursive https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server.git

If your git version does not support --recursive clones, do

git clone https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server.git
cd icecast-server
git submodule update --init

For further instruction, see our Wiki page: Icecast Git Workflow

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