Icecast vs mpd

Icecast

Icecast streaming media server (Mirror) - Please report bugs at https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/issues (by xiph)

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mpd

Python library which provides a client interface for the Music Player Daemon. (by Mic92)

Media Streaming Audio Streaming Python Mpd

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Icecast		mpd
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33	Mentions	-
458	Stars	342
2.6%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	6.3
4 months ago	Latest Commit	23 days ago
C	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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Icecast

Posts with mentions or reviews of Icecast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.

AzuraCast: A Simple, Self-Hosted Web Radio Management Suite
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023

I'm using icecast2 for that. The only downsides are that it does only mp3s and sometimes it goes mute after a track ends. A short silent transition track should workaround the latter problem but I never managed to make it work. I configured a hotkey to restart VLC on my laptop instead.
https://icecast.org/
Self-hosted real-time audio streaming
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 1 Jul 2023
Setting up my own scanner broadcast on my website
1 project | /r/policescanner | 3 Jun 2023

My impression is that people use Icecast for this.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2023
PSP Internet Radio in 2023
1 project | /r/PSP | 10 Apr 2023

Yeah, if you have an old Raspberry Pi collecting dust or something like that, icecast will work great.
Selfhosted radio with Broadcasting Software or OBS? Which is easier to manage?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 5 Apr 2023
Audio stream encoding/relaying?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 11 Jan 2023

https://icecast.org/ perhaps?
Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?
7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Dec 2022

icecast server. It's exactly would covers you needs... for free
Stream a unei melodie de tip .mp3
1 project | /r/programare | 8 Dec 2022

Vezi https://github.com/xiph/Icecast-Server
Show HN: Phoenix10.1, a Personalized Radio Station
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2022

Very cool, if you want to go even further with this. You could integrate this using Icecast[1] with Liquidsoap[2] to have a more expansive schedule.
1 = https://icecast.org/

mpd

Posts with mentions or reviews of mpd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Icecast and mpd you can also consider the following projects:

Snapcast - Synchronous multiroom audio player

Mopidy - Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python

AzuraCast - A self-hosted web radio management suite, including turnkey installer tools for the full radio software stack and a modern, easy-to-use web app to manage your stations.

Volumio - Volumio 2 - Audiophile Music Player

Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.

Navidrome Music Server - 🎧☁️ Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic

Mopidy MusicBox - Web Client for Mopidy Music Server and the Pi MusicBox

Libresonic

LibreTime - LibreTime: Radio Broadcast & Automation Platform

mStream - The easiest music streaming server available