darkice

I have successfully set up an archiving system using Darkice.  My method uses a feature in Darkice 1.18 which allows a signal to be sent to Darkice to trunk a file and start a new one. The two major advantages of this method are:

After accidentally deleting half the OS and database for the KPSU archive server, I've been documenting the process of setting up station archive server under FreeBSD. So far, I've written up configuring the recording and encoding of audio from the soundcard with darkice, streaming the audio with icecast2, installing MySQL, Apache, and Drupal. Now I'm working on documenting the setup of StreamRipper and the station archive module.

If you're interested, take a look at: http://drewish.com/node/23