Yes, it's possible to stream to an Icecast/Shoutcast server using Darkice,
either on a machine that has a sound card dedicated to the task (connected
via the audio out cable on the playback sound card) or if you have
hardware capable of using it, you can use the Jack server.
Phillippe Druout wrote a howto for setting up Campcaster with Jack:
I hope this answers at least some of your questions,
douglas
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about the last Campcaster's release and
before trying this software
I've RTFM and making search on this forum but unfortunately don't find
anything
relating to the possibility of streaming to a shoutcast or Icecast server
hosted on the same machine or not
I think that's backwards: Darkice is much simpler, Savonet is bigger and
more flexible, but more complicated.
You can install Darkice with apt-get from the official repositories on
Debian or Ubuntu, and it has a GUI for easier configuration (called
Darksnow); Savonet seems to come in source form only, and uses its own
scripting language.
On the other hand, to stream a file with Darkice, you need to play it on
one sound card, and then feed it back to Darkice on another sound card,
which means decoding and then reencoding (loss of quality). With
Savonet you seem to be able to stream files directly, without decoding
them to audio.
We are partial to Darkice because we have tried it and know that it
works; it's easy to install; and (full disclosure) it was developed by a
friend of ours.
For a standalone web radio, Savonet may indeed be what you are looking
for. Campcaster was designed for small FM stations, who can add Darkice
if they want to do streaming as well as regular broadcasting.
Savonet looks interesting, though. If you try it, we'd like to hear
about your experiences, so that we'll know whether to recommend it to
our users as an alternative to Darkice.