Extremely short tune-ins
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Extremely short tune-ins
Hello,
on several radio stations, I watch a curiosity with Radio Toolbox:
There are quite often, sometimes several times per minute, extremely short tune-ins (duration approx. 1-2 seconds). What can this be? I guess:
- buffering,
- search engine bots,
- WLAN radio equipment, smartphone etc. where somebody listens, but the stats counter doesn't work exactly
But perhaps one of the experts here know the correct answer.
Thanks - DJ Nameless (www.musik-train.de)
on several radio stations, I watch a curiosity with Radio Toolbox:
There are quite often, sometimes several times per minute, extremely short tune-ins (duration approx. 1-2 seconds). What can this be? I guess:
- buffering,
- search engine bots,
- WLAN radio equipment, smartphone etc. where somebody listens, but the stats counter doesn't work exactly
But perhaps one of the experts here know the correct answer.
Thanks - DJ Nameless (www.musik-train.de)
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Re: Extremely short tune-ins
It could be a number of things, one thing it could possibly be is Radio Toolbox itself. It tunes in to determine the status of the media on the stream.
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Re: Extremely short tune-ins
Radio Toolbox itself can probably be excluded, because it is not always. Sometimes it is not for several hours, then there are hours with 10-20 tune ins per song.
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Re: Extremely short tune-ins
Well, from using Steamcast I can tell you that a number of requests come in from all over that tune in for seconds and leave. Some of these are bots, some legitimate users, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Incidentally mosts servers will ignore these types of connections for statistical purposes.
Incidentally mosts servers will ignore these types of connections for statistical purposes.
- Jay