Hidden listeners Flood IceCast? But Who Knows For Sure?

[djjustin]

Icecast has VLC and Clemetine PC and now mobiles apps thanks to me a mod i built for VLC
for picking it up.

and the last time I saw listeners on board my Cruser, in the form of numbers was when i first started from 2021-2022 in late December. Now ZERO to FIVE live listeners are appearing in IP form, or even registered as listeners.

But when i look at listening minutes i see my encoder has a huge number of minutes differently every day. And an average of 200 repeated device sessions sometimes a day. Then scroll to the heart of my server I will see high numbers of bytes read from my broadcaster to the listeners and some sent from a relay service. The byes are vary high.

Does anyone know how shoutcast is doing? I think ICECAST 1&2 has far more devices connected to it now then shoutcast