Icecast Radio Relay
Internet radio relays wherever your listeners are.
Icecast is the reference free-software streaming server from the Xiph.Org Foundation (the team behind Ogg, Vorbis, Opus, and FLAC). A source client (Ices, Liquidsoap, BUTT, OBS, and others) pushes a stream to Icecast, which relays it to any number of listeners over standard HTTP, making it the open backbone of thousands of internet radio stations.
Key features
- Multi-format streaming: Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora video, MP3, and AAC
- Named mountpoints so one server can host many independent stations or bitrates
- Built-in XSLT web status page plus an authenticated admin console (list clients, move listeners, kick sources, edit metadata)
- Relaying and master/relay setups to fan out load across multiple servers
- Per-mount listener authentication, URL auth, and access control
- YP directory listing so stations can advertise to public station lists
- Live JSON and XML statistics endpoints for external monitoring and dashboards
- Lightweight C codebase that runs comfortably on modest hardware
Use cases
- Running an internet radio station or a network of themed stations
- Live event, conference, or house-of-worship audio broadcasting
- Low-latency talk, music, or community-radio streaming to global audiences
- Fronting a Liquidsoap or Ices automation chain for 24/7 playout
Why run it on the NetActuate edge Placing Icecast in a PoP close to listeners cuts buffering and time-to-first-audio for a smoother tune-in. Anycast plus per-region relays serve local audiences from local capacity instead of hair-pinning to one origin, and edge scale-out absorbs large concurrent-listener spikes without overloading a single box.
Frequently asked questions
How do I deploy Icecast Radio Relay on NetActuate?
Use the Deploy on NetActuate button to talk to our team. We provision Icecast Radio Relay on a NetActuate virtual machine in the point of presence you choose, close to your audience. Each deployment runs in the single location you select.
What does it cost to run Icecast Radio Relay?
Icecast Radio Relay is open-source software and free to run on the marketplace - you pay only for the NetActuate compute (virtual-machine size and location) it runs on, at standard rates. There are no usage-based software fees.
Where can Icecast Radio Relay run?
Icecast Radio Relay can be deployed in any of NetActuate's 45+ points of presence across every continent, so you can place ingest, transcode, delivery and caching close to your contributors and viewers.
Who supports Icecast Radio Relay?
NetActuate operates and supports the underlying infrastructure - the virtual machine, network and edge platform. The application itself is supported by its upstream open-source project.
.png){kind=icon}
.png)
