SETUIX Solutions

Yesterday I had to install a SHOUTcast server for a customer. The installation wouldn’t take more than 15 minutes if it was the first time installing. If you have installed it before it would take you less than 5 minutes because you can just re-use the config file.

This tutorial will only cover the installation of SHOUTcast on the server side. Below are more tutorials that you might be interested in:

• Tutorial on installing SHOUTcast for client side can be found here.
• Tutorial on embedding your SHOUTcast player on your website can be found here.

There isn’t really much to write about installing SHOUTcast on the server side because this is by far the easiest and fastest installation I have done so far. Before we begin you need to download the SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Software (DNAS) that is suitable for your operating system. Supported systems are:

• Window 95,98,ME,NT/2000/XP/2003
• FreeBSD 5.x server
• FreeBSD 4.x server
• Linux server with glibc6. Will not work on older glibc5 kernels.
• Mac OS X server (Mac OS X 10.3+ / Mac OS X Server 2 10.3+

In this tutorial the SHOUTcast DNAS was installed without any problems on FreeBSD 7.2 using the FreeBSD 5.x server. To download the appropriate servers click below:

• Download – SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Software

Installation for Windows users

1. Extract the downloaded file into a folder anywhere on your computer. Example C:\Program Files\SHOUTcast
2. Create a shortcut for sc_serv.exe on the Desktop. To do that right click on sc_serv.exe and select send to Desktop.
3. Run sc_serv.exe and click on “Edit Config” menu.
4. After editing the config file, save and close the editor then close and restart the SHOUTcast Radio DNAS application.

Installation for Linux and FreeBSD users

1. For terminal users download SHOUTcast DNAS with wget.
2. Create a directory called SHOUTcast and place the downloaded file inside.
3. Run: [zero@matrix { ~/SHOUTcast }] tar –zxvf <SHOUTcast DNAS filename>
4. Edit sc_serv.conf with your favourite text editor.
5. To run sc_serv in the background type: [zero@matrix { ~/SHOUTcast }] ./sc_serv &

And that is the end of the installation for the server side. The next time you install the SHOUTcast DNAS you can reuse the config file and make slight changes where applicable.