[Icecast] Mystery Song Artist Shows in Listener Stats

[Steve Matzura]

It took some real deep digging, but I figured out what's going on. It's 
an EZStream problem. Or maybe not. Here's what's going on. The song name 
that's wrong comes from a three-second file that streams immediately 
before the main program. This file contains someone saying "The 
following program is broadcast in German." It seems that when the next 
file streams, only some of the metadata updates Listener Stats shows the 
correct program name, but the last line--Current song--gets held over 
from that short file that streams first.


On 5/12/2020 6:28 AM, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 14:44 -0400, Steve Matzura wrote:
>> For a very long time--years in fact--I have had a problem with one of
>> the replays on the server I manage. For this one replay only, which is a
>> program of two hours duration, the bottom of the statistics table for
>> the stream says the current song is xxx/the-show-name, and the 'xxx' in
>> question bears no relation to the current song. In fact, there *is* no
>> currents song--the file that's playing has no other metadata in it
>> except the name of the program in the MP3 title field, and the name of
>> the presenter in the MP3 artist field. What could be causing this?
>> Where
>> does this "current song" data come from?
> Metadata are in the responsibility of the source client. So please check
> that your source client doesn't have the additional text configured in
> some way.
>
> Also make sure there are only one source running per mount. Sometime
> broken source clients keep trying to update metadata even when not
> successfully connected to the mount point.
>
> With best regards,
>
>
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