Ampache Icecast and Liquidsoap
Channels suck, I can't fix them without taking a lot of time for something that is already done better elsewhere.
There's actually a pretty easy way to use icecast and Ampache playlists without having to play around with scripts or the api.
This assumes you have good enough linux knowledge to configure things, i'll work on making this easier in the future.
Install icecast, configure admin accounts, etc and make sure it's all working first.
The default config file has a lot of commented information using <!-- and --> so make sure you're aware of what you delete.
You want to create a source for music to stream to and a source for clients to read the stream from. This is done using sockets.
For a user to hear your streams you need sockets.
In the config below I'm using socket 8000 to stream to clients (Proxied through my Apache server over ssl) and 8200 is a radio input stream.
Configure as many sockets as you want (I have 3 radio streams at home using ports 8200, 8201 and 8202)
<listen-socket>
<port>8000</port>
<bind-address>0.0.0.0</bind-address>
<!-- <ssl>1</ssl> -->
</listen-socket>
<listen-socket>
<port>8200</port>
<bind-address>127.0.0.1</bind-address>
</listen-socket>
note I have commented out the ssl line above. If you're going to proxy through your own web server it doesn't need to be encrypted.
If you want to connect directly to icecast instead of through your webserver you'll probably want ssl configured.
Make sure the ssl-certificate line is uncommented.
<ssl-certificate>/usr/share/icecast2/icecast.pem</ssl-certificate>
To make an ssl cert for your server you need to combine the cert, chain and key into one file.
If you're using letsencrypt it's pretty easy to do. You just need to know where the cert is
Combine the cert into a single file and change perms for icecast to read it.
cat /etc/letsencrypt/live/MYSITENAME/privkey.pem /etc/letsencrypt/live/MYSITENAME/cert.pem /etc/letsencrypt/live/MYSITENAME/fullchain.pem >/usr/share/icecast2/icecast.pem
chmod 600 /usr/share/icecast2/icecast.pem
chown icecast2:icecast /usr/share/icecast2/icecast.pem
note Make sure you set up a cron job or systemd timer if you intend on keeping this going as letsencrypt certs expire pretty quickly
Now you need a mount point is where you'll be serving music from.
<mount>
<mount-name>/radio1</mount-name>
<username>radio</username>
<password>passwordhere</password>
<burst-size>65536</burst-size>
<bitrate>128</bitrate>
</mount>
<mount>
<mount-name>/radio2</mount-name>
<username>radio</username>
<password>passwordhere</password>
<burst-size>65536</burst-size>
<bitrate>128</bitrate>
</mount>
After restarting the service i have icecast available on port :8000
Now it's time to get it playing music
First up install liquidsoap from your package manger. Debian is using 1.4.3 which is old but it works fine. We don't need anything special here.
With the Ampache cli you can add liquidsoap to the www-group, pull down the playlists and then serve the files to icecast
Add the www-data group to liquidsoap
usermod -a -G www-data liquidsoap
Log in as liquidsoap and create the playlists
su - liquidsoap -s /bin/bash
mkdir /usr/share/liquidsoap/playlists
/var/www/ampache/bin/cli export:playlist /usr/share/liquidsoap/playlists/
You should have an export of all your playlists exported to the playlists folder.
ls /usr/share/liquidsoap/playlists/
Note: Ampache 6 add the possibility to export juste one playlist. Think about it if you have a lot of playlists.
Now that you're installed and have your playlists with a working Icecast you can start streaming!
Create a config file and make it executable
touch /usr/share/liquidsoap/ampache.liq
chmod +x /usr/share/liquidsoap/ampache.liq
nano /usr/share/liquidsoap/ampache.liq
Here is my config, make sure you alter to your setup!
#!/usr/bin/liquidsoap
# Log dir
set("log.file.path","/var/log/liquidsoap/liquidsoap.log")
# Music
radio8200 = playlist("~/playlists/2184. bangers user.m3u")
radio8201 = playlist("~/playlists/14. Rebel Radio mkIII user.m3u")
# Stream it out
output.icecast(%mp3.fxp(channels=2,samplerate=44100,bitrate=128),
fallible=true,
host = "127.0.0.1", port = 8200,
user = "radio", password = "passwordhere",
mount = "/radio1",
name="bangersRadio", description="",
radio8200)
output.icecast(%mp3.fxp(channels=2,samplerate=44100,bitrate=128),
host = "127.0.0.1", port = 8201,
user = "radio", password = "passwordhere",
mount = "/radio2",
name="rebelRadio", description="",
radio8201)
Now that you're configured you can run the liq file as liquidsoap and check out that it's working
/usr/share/liquidsoap/ampache.liq
You should get a mount point on the icecast page
Radio will now be available from your mount point (https/https depending on your setup)
http://MYHOST:8000/bangersradio
https://MYHOST:8000/bangersradio
Add this link as a live stream in Ampache and you're done.
note outside your lan this port needs to be available
Now you've got live streaming from playlists without the hassle!
Can't get the ports outside your lan? Add a proxy to your site config and use your Ampache URL for the streams
In Debian Apache stores the active sites in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
First up make sure you've enabled proxy_html in Apache
a2enmod proxy_html
systemctl restart apache2
Here I've set up an ssl proxy here to redirect my streams from https://MYHOST:8000/bangersradio to https://MYHOST/bangersradio
SSLProxyEngine on
SSLProxyVerify none
SSLProxyCheckPeerCN off
SSLProxyCheckPeerName off
SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire off
ProxyPass /bangersradio https://MYHOST:8000/bangersradio
ProxyPassReverse /bangersradio https://MYHOST:8000/bangersradio
ProxyPass /rebelradio https://MYHOST:8000/rebelradio
ProxyPassReverse /rebelradio https://MYHOST:8000/rebelradio
Don't want icecast on ssl? That's basically the same as https.
ProxyPass /bangersradio http://MYHOST:8000/bangersradio
ProxyPassReverse /bangersradio http://MYHOST:8000/bangersradio
ProxyPass /rebelradio http://MYHOST:8000/rebelradio
ProxyPassReverse /rebelradio http://MYHOST:8000/rebelradio