ICES2(1)

💖 ICES2 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual for ices2 — that's the Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming source client, and yes she's iconic, she's a whole vibe, she's giving "your audio goes out into the world and you did that". 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ices2 config.xml

literally just that. one argument. that's the whole thing. she's low maintenance, she's main character energy. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

ices2 is a program that connects to Icecast 2 streaming media servers and feeds them audio streams, like a little fairy godmother for your sound. 🧚

she supports both of these:

• live audio input straight from a soundcard 🎤
• re-encoding of Ogg Vorbis files from a playlist 🎶

both at once? no. but both supported? yes ma'am. periodt.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay so here's the tea, and it's a short one:

• ices2 has no command line options. like, zero. none. ngl she keeps it mysterious.

every single aspect of how she operates is controlled by the XML configuration file, and the path to that file is specified by the sole argument. so yeah — config.xml is doing ALL the heavy lifting here. she's carrying the team. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

listen, bestie, this is the important part:

the example configuration files, provided with the package documentation, are the only reliable source of information on this software. 😭

fr fr. that's not a suggestion, that's the whole situation.

the software is still under very active development — so active, so dev — and detailed documentation will be written when it is possible to do so. iykyk. 💀

💜 AUTHOR 💜

ices2 was written by:

• Michael Smith <msmith@icecast.org>
• Karl Heyes <karl@pts.tele2.co.uk>
• and others 👑

this manual page was written by Keegan Quinn <ice@thebasement.org>. absolute slay, thank you for your service. 🎀

aaaand that's the whole page babes ✨ this was from July 28, 2003, the ICES2(1) general commands manual — general commands manual, version vibes of 2003, still out here streaming. mwah 💖 no cap.