# Audio Streaming with SHOUTcat or Icecast via butt

Source: https://mimolive.com/user-manual/playout-output-destinations/audio-streaming-with-shoutcast-or-icecast-via-butt/  
Last updated: 2023-03-10  
Section: Outputs & Distribution (Program Out)  

The two protocols most often used for audio only streaming are SHOUTcast and Icecast. While mimoLive doesn’t support those natively, it is pretty easy to set up a connection from mimoLive to the free tool “butt” which supports both those protocols.

- Download and install the [Mac version of butt](http://danielnoethen.de/butt/) ("broadcast using this tool").
- Setup a virtual audio device using [Loopback](https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/) or [Blackhole](https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole).
- Setup an Audio Aux output with the Audio mix you want to stream and select the virtual audio device from last step as the audio device.
- Don’t forget to turn it live.
- Launch “butt” and select the virtual audio device as the microphone.
- Enter your live streaming server info and start streaming!

That’s it. Now you can produce a live video and a separate live audio stream. Or just use mimoLive and mimoCall to produce your live audio stream with guests.