What is the best way to broadcast a live stream with Linux and Shoutcast?

[wolpert]

Folks-

I'm currently looking into what the best way to broadcast a live stream from Linux using Shoutcast. I'm doing the following; let me know if this makes sense.

I'll take the stream from a given source, and push it from PCM to mp3 via lame. The output is being sent to a FIFO file on my server.

sc_trans_040 is reading the FIFO file and sending the results to the shoutcast server for broadcasting.

In theory, this should work, but it may not be the best method. I cannot use window systems in this environment, only UNIX. (Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris) In the best case, I'd like to have multiple streams from a single server (same port, different URL) but I cannot find the correct way to configure shoutcast for this. Also, I'd rather feed shoutcast directly rather then go through sc_trans_040 but I cannot figure out a way to do that. (And using the content directory for my fifo doesn't help.)

What are other people doing for these UNIX live broadcasts? (If anything)

Virtually,
Ned Wolpert