Radio Output is out in the world

Back in May I mentioned obs-radio-output was brewing under Tech-Noid Systems — a native OBS plugin that streams audio straight to Icecast and SHOUTcast, so you can drop BUTT and stop babysitting a sidecar on stream night.

Back then the only way to run it was to build it from source. Not anymore.

The first public beta — 0.2.0-beta1 — is up, with real downloads. Grab a signed, notarized macOS .pkg (installs clean, no Gatekeeper fight) or a Linux .deb, drop it in, and you’ve got a Radio Output sitting right alongside OBS’s built-in outputs.

What’s working today:

• macOS and Linux are ready to broadcast. Configure under Tools → Radio Output, go live from the dock.
• Icecast 2.x and SHOUTcast v1, encoding in MP3, Opus, or Ogg/Vorbis — pick your protocol and codec.
• Live listener count in the dock, auto-reconnect on dropped connections, and color-coded status so you can tell at a glance whether you’re actually on air.
• Now Playing metadata and remote control over obs-websocket, if you want to drive it from somewhere else.

The honest caveat: the Windows build loads in OBS but can’t stream yet — libshout under MSVC is fighting me (#37). Mac and Linux first; Windows is next.

New to it? The User Guide takes you from install to your first broadcast. Hit a bug? Open an issue — it’s a beta, and that’s exactly what beta feedback is for.

GPL-2.0, community plugin, not affiliated with the OBS Project. It’s already handling the job on my own rig — now it can handle yours too. :)