[Icecast] Linux source-client that can push AAC to icecast2?

Geoff Shang
2020-07-13T21:23:24Z

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020, axeon wrote:

> Hi all, I set up ezstream to read a playlist.m3u file containing only
> MP3 encoded songs (to shuffle continuously) and push this to icecast2.
> This works, and I can also reencode to a lower bitrate.

> I would like to know if there is a way to reencode these MP3s into
> AAC-LC 128kpbs and then push the stream to icecast2. I'm doing this on
a
> VM with only terminal access and no audio hardware, so ezstream was
> perfect because it could just read MP3s and send it over, but it does
> not support AAC.

The thing about ezstream is it can literally support anything if you have
the needed command line decoder and encoder.

I have no experience with streaming AAC, but presumably you could figure
out the appropriate faac command line and set it up as an encoder and have
ezstream stream it.

Cheers,
Geoff.