Ices is the mp3 version of the command line streamer from Icecast.org. It’s like sc_trans for shoutcast, but alot better. Because of the mp3 stuff, it’s not distributed as a .deb anywhere (if anyone does find a .deb, please let me know), so it has to be built from source.

It’s all relatively straightforward though:

1. First install the Mediabuntu repository.

   wget -q http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/medibuntu-key.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -
   sudo wget http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get -y upgrade

2. Next install some headers (we need these to be able to build it) …

   sudo aptitude install libshout3-dev liblame-dev libxml-dev

3. (Optional) Perl support in ices is useful, for this we’ll need libperl-dev

   sudo aptitude install libperl-dev

4. Download and build the source …

   wget http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/ices/ices-0.4.tar.gz
   tar -zxf ices-0.4.tar.gz
   cd ices-0.4
   ./configure --with-lame
   make
   sudo make install 

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