# Icecast documentation

## Icecast 2.4.2 Docs — Table of Contents

### Pages

- Changes
- Introduction
- Basic Setup
- Icecast Config File
- Admin Interface
- Server Statistics
- Relaying
- Listing in a YP directory
- Authentication
- Win32 specific documentation
- Glossary
- FAQ

### Icecast 2.4.2 Readme

Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for commuincation and interaction.

Icecast is distributed under the GNU GPL, version 2. A copy of this license is included with this software in the COPYING file.

### Prerequisites

Icecast requires the following packages:

- libxml2
- libxslt
- curl (>= version 7.10 required)
- ogg/vorbis (>= version 1.0 required)
- openssl (optional, enable if SSL support is desired)

### Build/Install

To build icecast on a Unix platform, perform the following:

Run

    ./configure
    make
    make install

to build and install this release.

A sample config file will be placed in `/usr/local/etc` (on UNIX) or in the current working directory (on Win32) and is called `icecast.xml`

Documentation for Icecast is available in the doc directory, by viewing `doc/index.html` in a browser.

Please email us at icecast@xiph.org, or come and see us at irc.freenode.net, channel #icecast, if you have any troubles.