Web-Radio

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Rant Web-Radio LiquidSoap Icecast

Link to my personal Radio :)

Hate for apt

I feel the shittest package manager to ever exist is apt. Two packages needed different version of ubuntu and for some reason restricts me to do anything.

Setup

The icecast2 won’t work if you are using Ubuntu 22.xx because of apt’s bullshittry

  1. First install icecast2 as a normal being using apt
  2. Install liquidsoap from apt as well

Setting up Icecast

After installing icecast2 the config file can be found at /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml

The only important thing is the port that you are using for inbound and outbound connection should be open by your firewall check with or if using AWS add a security group for that port netstat -plnt.

Here’s my icecast.xml file.

<icecast>

    <location>India</location>
    <admin>arman@loonix.in</admin>

    <limits>
        <clients>100</clients>
        <sources>2</sources>
        <queue-size>524288</queue-size>
        <client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
        <header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
        <source-timeout>10</source-timeout>

        <burst-on-connect>1</burst-on-connect>

        <burst-size>65535</burst-size>
    </limits>

    <authentication>
        <!-- Sources log in with username 'source' -->
        <source-password>Your_Source_Username</source-password>
        <!-- Relays log in with username 'relay' -->
        <relay-password>Your_Relay_Username</relay-password>

        <!-- Admin logs in with the username given below -->
        <admin-user>Your_Admin_Username</admin-user>
        <admin-password>Your_Admin_Password</admin-password>
    </authentication>

    <hostname>loonix.in</hostname>

    <listen-socket>
	<port>8000</port>
    <bind-address>::</bind-address>
	<ssl>1</ssl>
    <ssl-certificate> /etc/letsencrypt/live/_location_/ssl_cert.pem </ssl-certificate>
     <ssl-private-key> /etc/letsencrypt/live/_location_/priv_key.pem </ssl-private-key>


    <http-headers>
        <header name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
    </http-headers>

    <fileserve>1</fileserve>

    <paths>
        <!-- basedir is only used if chroot is enabled -->
        <basedir>/usr/share/icecast2</basedir>

        <logdir>/var/log/icecast2</logdir>
        <webroot>/usr/share/icecast2/web</webroot>
        <adminroot>/usr/share/icecast2/admin</adminroot>

        <alias source="/" destination="/status.xsl"/>

    </paths>


    <logging>
        <accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
        <errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
        <!-- <playlistlog>playlist.log</playlistlog> -->
        <loglevel>3</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
        <logsize>10000</logsize> <!-- Max size of a logfile -->
    </logging>

    <security>
        <chroot>0</chroot>
    </security>
</icecast>

Afer setting up simply start and enable the service icecast2.service using root perms

Setting up LiquidSoap

I hate apt so much. and took me around 3 hours to figure out how to daemonize liquidsoap

So if you followed everything from this tutorial version of liquidsoap for you should be 1.4.1 and hence you cannot use Liquid Soap Deamonize because i guess it required version >= 2.x.x and i cannot simply install it using apt

So what else you can do is use this simple liquid file from my server

#!/usr/bin/liquidsoap
set("init.daemon.pidfile",true)

set("init.allow_root",true)

set("init.daemon",true)


# Music
myplaylist = playlist(mode="randomize",reload=1,reload_mode="rounds",
<DIR OF YOUR PLAYLIST>)

# Use your absolute directory above as you will be running under root privileges

# If something goes wrong, we'll play this
security = single("ANY DEFAULT FILE")

# Start building the feed with music
radio = myplaylist

# And finally the security
radio = fallback(track_sensitive = false, [radio, security])

# Stream it out
output.icecast(%mp3,
  host = "ICECAST HOSTNAME", port = ICECAST_PORT,
  password = "YOUR ICECAST PASSWORD", mount = "radio",
  radio)

and run this using sudo liquidsoap --quiet config.liq this will make liquidsoap run in background.

And now you have a working web-radio!

Update: I hate AWS too

Why the free tier only allows usage of only 1GB of outbound data also if you exceed they charge $0.09/GB that might get exhausted pretty fast if you stream a radio so its more preferable to use a OCI instance instead of AWS because they allow for 10TB outbound data / month. But what is with these Amazon/Azure/Google cloud services why can’t they make something like Oracle ?? Absolute state of money hungry tech giants.

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