Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Every time we talk to a possible advertiser on our streams, the question comes up: How many monthly listener hours does your station have?

Is there a way to track this with Icecast? Any 3rd party software?

Thank you for your replies and suggestions.

[karlH]

There are various log file analyzers, which ones have you tried?

karl.

[Anonymous]

Non so far. Didn't know where to start!

[karlH]

well you'll need to search through them, I can't say which one is better than another. Have a look at http://www.gnuware.com/icecast/unofficial/chap_08.html

karl.

[benburch]

http://analog.cx

Use analog.

You can compute total hours from the bit rate and the data transferred.

The "processing time" report is abused to show connect time.

The buckets in that are not greatly useful, sadly, and the code it difficult to comprehend as it is badly commented. But you could in principle change the bucket boundaries.

here is my conf file for an icecast server, the FILEINCLUDE statements can be used as here to restrict the streams you want to look at on a server with multiple streams;


# Configuration file for analog 5.32
# See http://www.analog.cx/
#
# Here are a couple of configuration commands to get you started. Add any more
# you like from the Readme.
#
# Lines starting with # are comments.
#
# There is a much more extensive configuration file in examples/big.cfg
#
# If you need a LOGFORMAT command (most people don't -- try it without first!),
# it must go here, above the LOGFILE commands.

LOGFORMAT (%S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%j%w%r%wHTTP%j" %c %b "%f" "%B" %t)
LOGFORMAT (%S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%j%w%r" %c %b "%f" "%B" %t)
LOGFORMAT (%S %j %u [%d/%M/%Y:%h:%n:%j] "%r" %c %b "%f" "%B" %t)

LOGFILE /var/log/icecast2/access.log
LOGFILE /var/log/icecast2/access.log.1.gz
LOGFILE /var/log/icecast2/access.log.2.gz
LOGFILE /var/log/icecast2/access.log.3.gz
LOGFILE /var/log/icecast2/access.log.4.gz
LOGFILE /var/log/icecast2/access.log.5.gz
LOGFILE /var/log/icecast2/access.log.6.gz

FILEEXCLUDE *
FILEINCLUDE *HeadOn*
FILEINCLUDE *James*

# LOGFILE /old/logs/access_log.*
# OUTFILE Report.html
# HOSTNAME "[my organisation]"
#
# You probably don't need to change anything below this until you are
# experienced.
#
# ERRFILE errors.txt
# REQINCLUDE pages
REQLINKINCLUDE pages
REFLINKINCLUDE *
REDIRREFLINKINCLUDE *
FAILREFLINKINCLUDE *
SUBBROW */*
SUBTYPE *.gz,*.Z
# OSCHARTEXPAND Windows
# Add whichever of these types of pages you have on your server, or others.
# PAGEINCLUDE *.shtml
# PAGEINCLUDE *.asp
# PAGEINCLUDE *.jsp
# PAGEINCLUDE *.cfm
# PAGEINCLUDE *.pl
# PAGEINCLUDE *.php
# More SEARCHENGINE commands can be found at
# http://www.analog.cx/helpers/#conffiles
SEARCHENGINE http://*google.*/* q,as_q,as_epq,as_oq
SEARCHENGINE http://*altavista.*/* q
SEARCHENGINE http://*yahoo.*/* p
SEARCHENGINE http://*lycos.*/* query,wfq
SEARCHENGINE http://*aol.*/* query
SEARCHENGINE http://*excite.*/* search
SEARCHENGINE http://*go2net.*/* general
SEARCHENGINE http://*metacrawler.*/* general
SEARCHENGINE http://*msn.*/* q,MT
SEARCHENGINE http://*netscape.*/* search
SEARCHENGINE http://*looksmart.*/* key
SEARCHENGINE http://*webcrawler.*/* qkw,search,searchText
SEARCHENGINE http://*overture.*/* Keywords
SEARCHENGINE http://*teoma.*/* q
SEARCHENGINE http://*infospace.*/* qkw
SEARCHENGINE http://*alltheweb.*/* q
SEARCHENGINE http://*dogpile.*/* q
SEARCHENGINE http://*ask.*/* ask
SEARCHENGINE http://*alltheweb.*/* query
SEARCHENGINE http://*northernlight.*/* qr
SEARCHENGINE http://*nlsearch.*/* qr
SEARCHENGINE http://*dmoz.*/* search
SEARCHENGINE http://*/netfind* query
SEARCHENGINE http://*/pursuit query
ROBOTINCLUDE REGEXPI:robot
ROBOTINCLUDE REGEXPI:spider
ROBOTINCLUDE REGEXPI:crawler
ROBOTINCLUDE Googlebot*
ROBOTINCLUDE Infoseek*
ROBOTINCLUDE Scooter*
ROBOTINCLUDE *Slurp*
ROBOTINCLUDE *Validator*
ROBOTINCLUDE Ultraseek*
TYPEALIAS .html ".html [Hypertext Markup Language]"
TYPEALIAS .htm ".htm [Hypertext Markup Language]"
TYPEALIAS .shtml ".shtml [Server-parsed HTML]"
TYPEALIAS .ps ".ps [PostScript]"
TYPEALIAS .gz ".gz [Gzip compressed files]"
TYPEALIAS .tar.gz ".tar.gz [Compressed archives]"
TYPEALIAS .jpg ".jpg [JPEG graphics]"
TYPEALIAS .jpeg ".jpeg [JPEG graphics]"
TYPEALIAS .gif ".gif [GIF graphics]"
TYPEALIAS .png ".png [PNG graphics]"
TYPEALIAS .txt ".txt [Plain text]"
TYPEALIAS .cgi ".cgi [CGI scripts]"
TYPEALIAS .pl ".pl [Perl scripts]"
TYPEALIAS .css ".css [Cascading Style Sheets]"
TYPEALIAS .class ".class [Java class files]"
TYPEALIAS .pdf ".pdf [Adobe Portable Document Format]"
TYPEALIAS .zip ".zip [Zip archives]"
TYPEALIAS .hqx ".hqx [Macintosh BinHex files]"
TYPEALIAS .exe ".exe [Executables]"
TYPEALIAS .wav ".wav [WAV sound files]"
TYPEALIAS .avi ".avi [AVI movies]"
TYPEALIAS .arc ".arc [Compressed archives]"
TYPEALIAS .mid ".mid [MIDI sound files]"
TYPEALIAS .mp3 ".mp3 [MP3 sound files]"
TYPEALIAS .ogg ".ogg [OGG sound files]"
TYPEALIAS .doc ".doc [Microsoft Word document]"
TYPEALIAS .rtf ".rtf [Rich Text Format]"
TYPEALIAS .mov ".mov [Quick Time movie]"
TYPEALIAS .mpg ".mpg [MPEG movie]"
TYPEALIAS .mpeg ".mpeg [MPEG movie]"
TYPEALIAS .asp ".asp [Active Server Pages]"
TYPEALIAS .jsp ".jsp [Java Server Pages]"
TYPEALIAS .cfm ".cfm [Cold Fusion]"
TYPEALIAS .php ".php [PHP]"
TYPEALIAS .js ".js [JavaScript code]"