The Advanced tab includes options for configuring various advanced settings which normally do not need to be adjusted.

Advanced (IceCast)

When using IceCast as your streaming server, options include the following. Please consult the IceCast documentation for more information about these options.

• Directory listings URL
  Specifies the URL to your directory service.

• Directory listings port
  Specifies the port number of your directory service.

• Suppress metadata
  Prevents IceCast from sending song artist/title information to your listeners.

• Relay password
  Specifies the password required to relay your stream, if any.

• Song length detect limit
  Specifies the maximum expected length of time for a song played on your station.

  This is necessary as IceCast's logs only include the start time of each track; they do not provide information about the length of each song. As such, Centova Cast must determine the length by checking the duration between the start times of each song. If the server is stopped between songs, however, the song will appear to last for the duration of the outage. This limit is used to ensure that if any song 'appears' to last longer than a certain number of seconds, it will not be included in the track statistics.