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So I finally did something I've been wanting to for a while now. I installed icecast on my gentoo server here at home and started a 'radio' station. It was quite easy to install

emerve -v icecast

I am using a second program called muse to basically feed the audio to icecast to stream.

emerge -v muse

I chose it over the other program ices for feeding audio to icecast because muse will allow MP3 streaming, and only the older versions of ices (which I couldn't get to compile) would do that. Just edit the icecast config (now it's an XML file; bleh, should have used something like YAML) located in /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml and start the app with icecast -C /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml

Start up muse then with muse -C /path/to/playlist.pls -o -e mp3 -b 128 -q 9.0 -c 2 --server localhost -m $stream_name.mp3 -p $passwd

wasn't hard to set up at all but the documentation on both Muse and icecast sucks.