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Icecast status-json.xsl can look healthy while listeners hear silence
A listener emails at 2 a.m. to say your stream has been quiet for an hour. You open the Icecast…
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AzuraCast and Liquidsoap Fallbacks vs External Silence Monitoring
A lot of AzuraCast stations have never had a minute of true dead air, and their operators take that as…
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Silence Detection Thresholds Without False Alarms
Your stream monitor fires at 2 a.m. You open the dashboard. The mount is up. The encoder is connected. Nobody…
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Best Icecast & Shoutcast Stream Monitoring Tools 2026 (Silence & Uptime)
Technical · September 2026 Your stream can answer HTTP 200 and still play nothing. The encoder is connected, the mount…
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Shoutcast vs Icecast 2026: Which Should You Choose for Internet Radio?
Technical · April 2026 If you are setting up internet radio, Shoutcast and Icecast come up constantly. Both have been…