Number of Viewers/Listeners Broadcast Mode

[Ron Ackerman]

When broadcasting it would be nice to be able to see Viewers/Listeners listening to the feed. Some software I've seen actually plots it on a chart broken down in 5 or 10 min intervals. When more than one encoder is used it will combine the number of listeners into one readout.

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

Which software does it? Do you know which protocol is used?
How do you wish to see this info in Mixxx?

[Ron Ackerman (ronack01)]

I know SAM Broadcaster does. SAM combines from all servers into one. I currently have to use 3 websites via a webpage with all 3 on one page. I can give you the URL privately.

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

http://support.spacialaudio.com/wiki/SimpleCast
Hier is the Sam manual.

If I see it right, libshout does not support reporting server stats.
What are the options? Does the icecast server have a kind of back channel for it?

It looks like we need to connect to skins if statistics relay. Do you have info about it?

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

.. a kind of statistics ...

[Ron Ackerman (ronack01)]

Here is how I got the data. http://bluegrassjams.org/sc2.php

[Ron Ackerman (ronack01)]

By the way, SimpleCast is now SAMcast and they have a 7 day free trial after which it's $199 just to do the encoders and gather stats. https://spacialaudio.com/sam-cast/

[Ron Ackerman (ronack01)]

I just thought of something that goes along with this. A visual (VU Meter) showing the level of the signal that is Recording/Broadcasting. Nothing worse than having a volume turned down somewhere (external mixer) and broadcasting silence. A VU Meter would show you the level of the broadcast audio.

[Be (be.ing)]

The master level meter indicates the level of the broadcast signal.

[Ron Ackerman (ronack01)]

Ok I'm sorry if I"m wasting your time with these things. I guess I'm excited that you are so on it.

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/9055