Icecast - Jun 2015 - Identify listeners on log reports

We have businesses users listening to 17 different icecast streams.
We're looking for a way to identify via icecast logs what each user is
listening.

At the moment in order to do so, we're cloning the streams for each user,
so that separate logs are generated.
As the number of user grow, this approach is becoming unsustainable.

Is there an alternative, more lean way to do this?

Thanks

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Mark Foster
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Hi Mark,

You can maybe look at authentication:
http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/auth.html ?

I guess you need some way to differentiate the different users from each
other, either by IP address (though not that accurate) or by
username/password. Authentication can solve both cases for you.

I myself have used the authentication to provide some better logging,
but the users themselves are blissfully unaware that "authentication"
is
happening - as all users are allowed access.

- Marius

On 06/24/2015 08:53 AM, Mark Foster wrote:
> We have businesses users listening to 17 different icecast streams.
> We're looking for a way to identify via icecast logs what each user is
> listening.
> 
> At the moment in order to do so, we're cloning the streams for each
> user, so that separate logs are generated.
> As the number of user grow, this approach is becoming unsustainable.
> 
> Is there an alternative, more lean way to do this?

Hi Marius,
thanks for your reply.

URL auth via usern/pass seems what I need.

I fail to understand is if and how would that reflect on logs.

Care to elaborate further?

Thank you


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Mark Foster


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Marius Flage <marius at flage.org> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> You can maybe look at authentication:
> http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/auth.html ?
>
> I guess you need some way to differentiate the different users from each
> other, either by IP address (though not that accurate) or by
> username/password. Authentication can solve both cases for you.
>
> I myself have used the authentication to provide some better logging,
> but the users themselves are blissfully unaware that
"authentication" is
> happening - as all users are allowed access.
>
> - Marius
>
> On 06/24/2015 08:53 AM, Mark Foster wrote:
> > We have businesses users listening to 17 different icecast streams.
> > We're looking for a way to identify via icecast logs what each
user is
> > listening.
> >
> > At the moment in order to do so, we're cloning the streams for
each
> > user, so that separate logs are generated.
> > As the number of user grow, this approach is becoming unsustainable.
> >
> > Is there an alternative, more lean way to do this?
>
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