Frequently Asked Questions

You might not be aware, if you use Icecast Streaming Media Server, that anyone with internet access can view your listener statistics via the Icecast Status page. Generally, you don't want people to have access to this data, including your competitors.

Let’s say one of your stream URLs was http://streamserver1.mediarealm.com.au/demostream. If anyone were to go to http://streamserver1.mediarealm.com.au/, then details such as a listing of all the streams running on the server, plus the current and peak listener figures, would be visible.

If someone felt so inclined, they could scrape those numbers over a period of time and publish them.

Thankfully, disabling this feature is fairly easy. On a Windows Server running Icecast, go to C:-Program Files-Icecast2web and open up the index.xsl file in your favorite text editor. You can safely delete the HTML from this file that you don’t want displayed or even replace the whole page with a simple Javascript redirect to your real homepage.

Check the page again in your web browser. If all went well, you should be able to see your modified page. If you want to get access to that data, you can now log in to the admin page with your password and see that plus more.