SHOUTcast is Nullsoft's Winamp based distributed streaming audio system. This software is free.
Installing Step 1: Lets download the SHOUTcast server..
First open your SSH client to your server and type this command.
Step 2: Extracting
Once you have downloaded Shoutcast onto your server type the following command in your SSH client.
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tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
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Step 3: Clean Up
Before moving on lets clean up your home directory.
Type the following commands in your SSH client..
Quote:
rm -rf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
mv shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6 shoutcast
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Configuration Step 1: Modifying the configuration file
Your going to want to modify the configuration file to your needs.
It is recommended that you change the following..
MaxUser
Password
PortBase
AdminPassword (remember to uncomment)
Type the following in your SSH client..
Quote:
cd shoutcast
pico sc_serv.conf
or (different on some types of servers.)
nano sc_serv.conf
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Now at this point you can go threw the settings and change them to what you want or you can save and start shoutcast and it will work perfectly.
After your done modifying the configuration file save it.
Press
crtl+x to save.
Starting Shoutcast
After you have finished all the above steps go into the shoutcast directory and type this command in your SSH client..
Now it should start up and you can start listening!
Enjoy.
Stopping Shoutcast Step 1: Finding the Process ID Number
If you have cPanel/WHM you will need to login as the ROOT user.
Go to "System Health" then click "Show Current Running Processes".
Ccrolled down until you see
sc_serv.
Look at the number right before (sc_serv). That's the
Process ID number running your shoutcast server.
Open your ssh client.
Log in as root user
At the prompt, type the following command..
Place the process ID number you just found by going into your WHM in the blank spaces.
Done, shoutcast has stopped.
Installing SHOUTcast® server 
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