# How to update liquidsoap to support AAC streaming

**URL:** <https://discourse.libretime.org/t/how-to-update-liquidsoap-to-support-aac-streaming/1963>\
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**Created:** [February 5, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/how-to-update-liquidsoap-to-support-aac-streaming/1963 "2026-02-05T01:41:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhknoaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@jhknoaka](https://discourse.libretime.org/u/jhknoaka)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/how-to-update-liquidsoap-to-support-aac-streaming/1963/1 "2026-02-05T01:41:26Z")

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Greetings I’ve installed libretime-4.5.0 using the installer on Ubutu -20.04. I’ve also ran the following command: `sudo apt-get install libfltk1.3-dev portaudio19-dev libopus-dev libmp3lame-dev libvorbis-dev libogg-dev libflac-dev libfdk-aac-dev libdbus-1-dev libsamplerate0-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libportmidi-dev`  
In the setting, Stream all of the information is greyed out and I cannot modify it from my admin panel [http://haitirapkreyol.com:8080/preference/stream-setting](http://haitirapkreyol.com:8080/preference/stream-setting) how can I change the stream to broadcast in 64kbps in AAC+ format? I also have access to the icecast2 admin panel and [http://haitirapkreyol.com:8000/admin/](http://haitirapkreyol.com:8000/admin/) and icecast2 config file via `sudo nano /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml`

What are the steps that I must take in order to accomplish such goal?

Since you don’t have access to my admin page please view the uploaded pictures. In my research I saw a post mentioning AAC support bu that was for Debian distro, I failed to find instrunction regarding Ubutu -20.04.

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LibreTime version: `libretime-4.5.0`

**Installation method and OS / Environment**  
The method used to install and the operating system / environment your installation is running on.

Operating system: Ubuntu-20.04

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**Author:** ![k054](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.libretime.org/k054/32/489_2.png) [@k054](https://discourse.libretime.org/u/k054)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/how-to-update-liquidsoap-to-support-aac-streaming/1963/2 "2026-03-30T02:26:08Z")

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I haven’t tried this but sounds exactly the same you wanna achieve:

> **[1. Obtain liquidsoap with AAC support​ - How to update liquidsoap to support AAC...](https://libretime.org/docs/admin-manual/tutorials/setup-liquidsoap-aac-streaming/#1-obtain-liquidsoap-with-aac-support)**
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> This tutorials walks you though the steps required to replace the liquidsoap package with a version that supports AAC streaming.