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BUTT (Broadcast Using This Tool) is an easy to use, open source, multi OS streaming tool.
It supports Icecast, Shoutcast and WebRTC and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
The main purpose of BUTT is to stream live audio from your computers microphone or line input
to an Icecast, Shoutcast or WebRTC (WHIP) server. If you want you can also record your broadcast locally
on your computer.
With BUTT you can not directly stream audio files. However, with the help of tools like
Voicemeeter (Windows), Blackhole (macOS) and PulseAudio (Linux) you can also stream audio files
directly from your favorite music player.

For more details and instructions have a look at the Manual [PDF]

If you are looking for an Icecast, Shoutcast and RTMP client for your iPhone or iPad please visit iziCast

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Latest version: 1.45.0

Latest Changes (2025-04-19)

  • Add support for custom URLs and mountpoints for listener statistics

  • Add seperate MIDI commands for START/STOP Broadcasting and Recording

  • Add support for controlling BUTT via MIDI NOTE_ON messages

  • Fix a crash when connecting to a Shoutcast server that is configued with streamhidestats=all

  • Fix an issue where "Listeners: 0" was shown after connecting to servers that don’t provide listener statistics

  • Fix several German translation issues

  • Update credentials for existing radio.co servers when re-adding them

View ChangeLog for the complete change history.

YouTube channel

BUTT has a dedicated YouTube channel now.
As always: It would help me if you subscribe to the channel and hit the like buttons :)

Tutorials in textual form

Features

  • Works with SHOUTcast and Icecast

  • Supports SSL/TLS (Icecast only for now)

  • Runs on all three major operating systems. Mac OS X, Linux and Windows

  • Supports aac+, mp3, ogg/vorbis, ogg/opus and ogg/FLAC for streaming

  • Additionally supports recording in wav

  • Connects to a server after starting up automatically

  • Reconnects in case the connection was interrupted

  • Records after connecting to a server automatically

  • Can be controlled via command line and network

  • Can be controlled via MIDI CC messages

  • Shows number of listeners

  • Supports up to two multi-channel audio devices

  • Song names can be updated manually, via text file or via music apps (only MacOS and Linux)

  • Configuration files can be imported and exported

  • Status display shows infos about the current state (click on it)

  • Can automatically connect/disconnect on a configurable signal/silent period

  • Can automatically start/stop recording on a configurable signal/silent period

  • 10-band EQ

  • Dynamic Range Compressor

  • Supports 7 languages (Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish)

Contact

butt at danielnoethen dot de

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