Audio quality monitoring
Qosifire provides Icecast audio streaming quality monitoring
The industry of online radio uses Icecast protocol and tools around it to make efficient delivery of content to the audience.
Qosifire allows making sure that your audio streams are delivered with no glitches and with proper quality.
Qosifire Icecast stream setup and usage details can be found in Monitoring setup articles.
You can find full list of Icecast monitoring parameters in Icecast monitoring setup knowledge base article, here are some most notable ones.
General connectivity
- Connection events and issues
- DNS-related events and issues
- Redirects
- Agent nodes performance
Icecast and audio specific
- Metadata and general info
- Bufferring values and errors
- Silence detection
Notifications
Notifications are currently initiated against connectivity errors as well as silence detection with threshold noise level.
All users with proper access level in your account will get emails and mobile push notifications.
Decoding
Qosifire monitoring agent may use libfds_aac and ffmpeg decoding libraries for silence and noise detection. You can choose that as part of stream monitoring setup.