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<p>Hi Justin,</p>
<p><i><b> Aren't listeners also clients?</b></i></p>
<p>No.<br>
</p>
<p>Icecast xml is a bit daunting.</p>
<p>There are two kinds of connections.</p>
<p>Listener and Client</p>
<p>Client:...<br>
</p>
<p>Connections from your source which may be darkice, BUTT, or some
other encoder.</p>
<p>You actually need plenty of these. I set mine to 20 when I have 4
services.</p>
<p>One client may have several connections. I assume there is some
handshaking and there may be metadata as well.<br>
</p>
<p>Listener:...<br>
</p>
<p>Connections from anyone using the mount address which may be a
listener or a relay. <br>
</p>
<p>The same listener can connect more than once. The reconnect may
be because of a gap the listener does not know about because of
the buffer, or store o audio waiting to be played. <br>
</p>
<p>On ADSL I limit this number to 5 and on Fibre I limit this to 10.
Your ISP will choke the upload bandwidth especially mp3. I use
AAC+ which has a smaller data size for the same quality, it's also
not on the choke list.<br>
</p>
<p>If you plan on having more listeners than 5 or so then you need a
Streaming Service who may take your stream and feed it to 100,200
or some larger number of listeners for $xx.95 a month. Most of
these are mp3 only. <br>
</p>
<p>hope this helps</p>
<p>regards</p>
<p>Robert<br>
</p>
<p><br>
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<p>I can't make sense of the connection stats on the admin page.
We have one source and one mountpoint.</p>
<p>What is the difference between <em>client_connections</em> and
<em>clients</em> and <em>connection</em>s? How can they be so
different in value? Same questions for <em>listener_connections</em>
and <em>listeners</em>? The connections values seem high for
only 5 listeners and one admin.</p>
<p>Here is a snapshot of the admin page a few minutes after the
server was started and mountpoint was made available:</p>
<p> client_connections<br>
18<br>
<br>
clients<br>
7<br>
<br>
connections<br>
24<br>
<br>
file_connections<br>
0<br>
<br>
listener_connections<br>
17<br>
<br>
listeners<br>
5<br>
<br>
source_client_connections<br>
1<br>
<br>
source_relay_connections<br>
0<br>
<br>
source_total_connections<br>
1<br>
<br>
sources<br>
1<br>
<br>
stats<br>
0<br>
<br>
stats_connections<br>
0<br>
<br>
Mountpoint /live.mp3<br>
listener_peak<br>
6<br>
<br>
listeners<br>
5<br>
<br>
max_listeners<br>
unlimited</p>
<p>After more people started to connect, the admin #s got even
more whacky.</p>
<p>Then, I have the max clients set to 25, yet the mountpoint says
'unlimited' listeners. Why the difference here? Aren't
listeners also clients?</p>
<p><limits><br>
<clients>25</clients><br>
<sources>1</sources></p>
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<p>Thanks,<br>
Justin</p>
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