Editing Icecast (section)

{{Short description|Streaming media server}}
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| developer              = [[Xiph.Org Foundation]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1999}}
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| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
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| genre                  = [[streaming media]] [[Server (computing)|server]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]
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| website                = {{URL|https://icecast.org}}
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'''Icecast''' is a [[streaming media]] project released as [[free software]] maintained by the [[Xiph.Org Foundation]]. It also refers specifically to the [[Server (computing)|server]] program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by [[Jack Moffitt (computer scientist)|Jack Moffitt]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://metajack.im/about/|access-date=13 March 2015|title=about jack moffitt}}</ref><ref name="icecast-news">{{Cite web|url=http://icecast.org/news/|title=News Archive|access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref> and Barath Raghavan<ref name="icecast-news" /> to provide an [[open-source software|open-source]] audio streaming server that anyone could modify, use, and tinker with.  Version 2, a [[Rewrite (programming)|ground-up rewrite]] aimed at multi-format support (initially targeting [[Vorbis|Ogg Vorbis]]) and scalability, was started in 2001 and released in January 2004.<ref name="icecast-news" />