Icecast 2
Streaming audio/video server which can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Oct 2026.
Comparisons in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming: Plex Pass alternatives.
At a glance
Icecast 2 quick facts
- Health score
- 15/100 STALE
- Stars
- 20
- Last commit
- 7 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.4.3, May 2020
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Icecast 2 scores 15/100, #17 of 17 in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.4.3, 6.5 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 20 stars add 5.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the gitlab.xiph.org API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
v2.4.3 released 6.5 years ago
- Stars 5.3 / 20
20 stars on gitlab.xiph.org (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- 7 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #17 of 17 tools in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming by health , just below NymphCast (#16) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | C |
| Latest release | v2.4.3 · 6.5 years ago |
| Stars | 20 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server ↗ |
Icecast 2 vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Icecast 2 (Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jellyfin | 99 | 59k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| MediaMTX | 97 | 21k | MIT | today |
| Kyoo | 94 | 2.6k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Stash | 94 | 13k | AGPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| MistServer | 81 | 519 | Unlicense | 18 days ago |
| Icecast 2 (this tool) | 15 | 20 | GPL-2.0 | 7 days ago |
Icecast 2: common questions
Is Icecast 2 still maintained?
Icecast 2 had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 7 days ago; the latest tagged release, v2.4.3, is from 6.5 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.