@trauts14 it looks like you are using ssh to access your pi through either Putty or another Terminal type program on a Windows laptop. Yes, the problem is that when the terminal is closed darkice stops.
Did you install the Raspbian Lite OS or one of the Raspbian with Stretch desktop OS on the pi? If you have one of the desktop OS then you should be able to enable VNC and use RealVNC rather than ssh to get into the pi. When you disconnect RVNC the desktop actually stays running on the pi and thus the darkice terminal window on that desktop will stay open. That would also free your laptop.
You can enable vnc from the command line using sudo raspi-config and then finding the interfaces option.