[Icecast] Zero listeners on icecast stats

[José Luis Artuch]

Hi Gabriele,

El lun, 16-03-2020 a las 11:04 +0100, Gabriele Zaverio escribió:
> Hi there,
> 
> I just set up a system of fallback streams for our free radio station
> here but I have this weird problem: it always show zero listeners.
> 
> Our setup is this:
> 
> We have a listening mount point for people - that fall back to a live
> streaming from a cellular phone - that fall back to a live streaming
> from a base station (a pc), that fall back to a 24/7 archive
> streaming.
> 
> No matter what the sound source is (cellular phone, PC or historical
> archive 24/7, our listening mount point always show zero listeners.
> But we have listeners there, and they are listening our stream, and
> everything works fine.
> 
> Any hint about this?
> 
> Server is icecast 2. we stream using mixxx from an Imac, darkice from
> PC and liquidsoap for our mp3 archive, streaming 24/7.
> 
> Our fallback section setup is as follow:
> 
> <!-- historical 24/7 mp3 streaming -->
> <mount>
>         <mount-name>/radiocybernet-archive.mp3</mount-name>
>         <hidden>0</hidden>
> </mount>
> 
> <!-- live mountpoint streaming from a PC base station -->
> <mount>
>         <mount-name>/rcyblive.mp3</mount-name>
>         <intro>./announce-radiocybernet.mp3</intro>
>         <fallback-mount>/radiocybernet-archive.mp3</fallback-mount>
>         <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>         <hidden>1</hidden>
> </mount>
> 
> <!-- Live mountpoint for a cellular phone streaming -->
> <mount>
>         <mount-name>/rcybcell.mp3</mount-name>
>         <intro>./announce-radiocybernet.mp3</intro>
>         <fallback-mount>/rcyblive.mp3</fallback-mount>
>         <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>         <hidden>1</hidden>
> </mount>
> 
> <!-- this is where listeners connect to listen our station -->
> <mount>
>         <mount-name>/radiocybernet.mp3</mount-name>
>         <intro>./announce-radiocybernet.mp3</intro>
>         <fallback-mount>/rcybcell.mp3</fallback-mount>
>         <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>         <hidden>0</hidden>
> </mount>
> 
> <!-- this is an old mountpoint we used for our transmission, for
>       historical purpose, many links on internet point here -->
> <mount>
>         <mount-name>/rcyb.mp3</mount-name>
>         <intro>./announce-radiocybernet.mp3</intro>
>         <fallback-mount>/radiocybernet.mp3</fallback-mount>
>         <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>         <hidden>1</hidden>
> </mount>
> 
> 
> Thank you for any help!
> 
You could experiment with some format supported by Icecast2, for
example *opus*. Maybe you will get a different result ...
Best regards.
José Luis