Kite

Kite is a lightweight Icecast-compatible streaming server written in Go. It accepts live audio from existing source clients and serves the same stream over HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket, and SSE without transcoding.

Start here

• Quick start to run Kite locally.
• BUTT setup to connect a live MP3 source.
• Production deployment for ACME TLS and Docker Compose.
• Configuration reference for the YAML model.

What Kite provides

• Icecast Source ingest through HTTP PUT, POST, and legacy SOURCE ... ICE/1.0.
• Passthrough MP3, AAC/ADTS, and Ogg/Opus streaming.
• Bounded per-mount buffering with slow-listener protection.
• Primary, backup-mount, and looping file fallback.
• ICY metadata, SSE events, WebSocket audio, and Prometheus metrics.
• Development TLS, file-based certificates, and built-in ACME.
• Atomic dynamic configuration with revision ETags.

Kite is a single-node streaming server. It does not currently provide transcoding, HLS/DASH, AutoDJ scheduling, clustering, listener authentication, or full Shoutcast DSP compatibility.

Project links

• GitHub repository
• Releases
• Issue tracker