As a Live365 Broadcaster, you have some control over who listens to your station and for how long.

If you notice that a listener is connecting for long periods of time (e.g. longer than 8 hours), you do have an option to ban that IP address from listening. This will help to regulate your TLH usage and cut down on illegal stream recording. This option can also be helpful when the IP is a BOT that you do not want connecting to your stream and using your TLH.

Tip: You may have access to 1 or more Live365 stations. See our Dashboard Navigation article to learn more about selecting the station which you want to work with. Once on that Station's Overview page, you can then follow along.

You can view the currently connected users and the length of their connections by selecting Analytics from the Station Menu. Next, select Realtime from the top menu.

Use the Ban Listener button on the far right to stop a problematic listener from connecting. 

Note: The ban does not take place when you click the ban button. Bans only take effect when the user disconnects from the stream.

You can reverse the ban by selecting Restrictions → IP Bans from the Station Menu. Click the X next to the IP hash to remove it.

Under Restrictions → Session Duration, you can also set an hour limit for the listening duration. Read more about stream restrictions here.

Note: The duration for each user session is determined when that session starts. Any changes made to session length will only affect sessions started after the change went into effect. Preexisting sessions will retain the duration they were originally given.

Note: For privacy concerns, we display an IP hash, rather than the actual IP address (12.345.67.123) of the listener.