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Rocket Streaming Audio Server (RSAS) is a webserver designed for serving live streaming audio. It allows you to connect and broadcast live audio to listeners over the web, using a streaming audio encoder, such as Rocket Broadcaster.
It is designed for professional use, and can scale to 1 million concurrent listeners on a single server.
Rocket Streaming Audio Server is also designed to be an easy drop-in replacement for Icecast, and an alternative to SHOUTcast. It works with all Icecast-compatible streaming audio encoders, and all HTTP stream players.
Read more about migrating from Icecast or migrating from SHOUTcast.
Over the years, we and many of our customers have discovered bugs or other undocumented deficiencies in both Icecast and SHOUTcast, and we wanted to build something better that fixes all these issues. We also wanted to make integration easier for streaming platforms and web developers. Lastly, we wanted to build modern streaming features that are better aligned with the needs of broadcasters in the 21st century.
In the process of creating the Radio Mast Streaming Network, we used our stream monitoring to discover several stability issues and broken features in Icecast. As the old saying goes, "if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself", so we took it upon ourselves to build the Rocket Streaming Audio Server to power Radio Mast's global audio CDN, which has been rock solid ever since. We're excited to now share this great technology with the wider internet radio community.
RSAS is available for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD (experimental).
The following Windows version are supported:
For Linux, a Linux distribution with glibc 2.27 or greater is required.
Packages are provided for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and more. Please visit the Download page for the list of supported Linux distributions.
Please see the section on Installation.
Rocket Streaming Audio Server is built from scratch in C++, and is not based on any other existing software. Source code access and licensing options are available for enterprise customers who wish to modify it. Please contact sales for more information.
Questions? Please contact support.