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Also known as Icecast server

Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open-source audio streaming server that anyone could modify, use, and tinker with. Version 2, a ground-up rewrite aimed at multi-format support (initially targeting Ogg Vorbis) and scalability, was started in 2001 and released in January 2004.

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Software.name
Icecast
Software.logo
Icecast logo large 2004.svg
Software.developer
Xiph.Org Foundation
Software.programming language
C
Software.operating system
Unix-like and Microsoft Windows
Software.genre
streaming media server
Software.license
GPL-2.0-only

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Wikidata facts

Official website
icecast.org
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software version identifier
2.5.0
IRC channel URL
irc://irc.libera.chat:6697/icecast
source code repository URL
gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server
email address
mailto:[email protected]
inception
1999-00-00
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Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open-source audio streaming server that anyone could modify, use, and tinker with. Version 2, a ground-up rewrite aimed at multi-format support (initially targeting Ogg Vorbis) and scalability, was started in 2001 and released in January 2004.

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