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Muhammad Ali S.
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What do you like best about Icecast?

It covers all the major operating systems plus a wide variety of apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Icecast?

Nothing, I am happy with its performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Icecast:

Its upto date and stable, I highly recommend this over others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Icecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

Offcourse radio casting, Once again it is the stability of the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Icecast Overview

What is Icecast?

Icecast is a GPL streaming media server that currently streams in MP3 format.

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Icecast is a GPL streaming media server that currently streams in MP3 format.


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Xiph.Org
Year Founded
1994
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Recent Icecast Reviews

Muhammad Ali S.
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Muhammad Ali S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"I found it stable,,"
It covers all the major operating systems plus a wide variety of apps.
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5.0 out of 5
"Icecast is awesome!!"
Icecast provides password protected radio stream. It also support video streaming. It is open source.
Kit F.
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Kit F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Decent for streaming audio"
It makes streaming audio pretty easy. Just set up a server, set up a streaming client on another machine, and off you go.
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What do you like best about Icecast?

It makes streaming audio pretty easy. Just set up a server, set up a streaming client on another machine, and off you go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Icecast?

You'll need a lot of bandwidth (relatively speaking) for multiple high-quality streams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Icecast:

It's an open-source solution, so you'll have to support it yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Icecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm streaming audio over the Internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Icecast?

Icecast provides password protected radio stream.

It also support video streaming.

It is open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Icecast?

I don't think anythink missing in icecast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Icecast:

Please use icecast for your radio audio streaming free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Icecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

I provide icecast hosting as well as secure streaming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Icecast?

That it is quick and easy to setup and just gets the job done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Icecast?

That the KH fork is better. Also the lack of security around the admin interface is troubling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Icecast:

Consider reviewing both the main release and the KH fork. See which works best for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Icecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

Radio live streaming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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