COST and SESSION
Two cards at the bottom of the plugin window report on the running stream. Both show a dash in every row until START. COST updates every 5 seconds, and SESSION continuously. In RECEIVE a RECEIVE card takes their place.COST
COST shows what a relayed stream is costing, in time and channels, priced from the published price.
RATE is 2 JPY × channels × listeners. A 7.1 stream (8 channels) reaching 3 listeners is 48 JPY an hour once the included hours are used, and SESSION stays at 0 JPY while the included hours last. The month ends at midnight UTC on the last day shown, and included hours do not roll over.1
A Direct stream shows PEER TO PEER · NOT BILLED in RATE and nothing else, since it is never metered. A relayed stream that is not billed (a trial’s free hour) shows its width and NOT BILLED.
When the computer’s region is set outside Japan, each yen figure has a dollar figure beside it, as 48 JPY ($0.32).2
Your nomn.jp account page shows the same month to date.
SESSION
DROPPED
DROPPED counts audio the plugin discarded before it reached the network, in two cases. The upload could not keep up, so the queue of packets waiting to leave filled and new packets were dropped to keep listeners near real time; or the DAW handed over audio faster than the plugin’s sending thread could take it, which happens when the computer is overloaded. Listeners hear each dropped packet as a short gap. A count that climbs steadily usually means the upload is too slow for the stream; see Network, and consider LOW BANDWIDTH.LISTENER DROPOUTS
LISTENER DROPOUTS is the total of the interruptions every listener page on the link has heard since it opened: its buffer ran dry because audio arrived late, or a burst of late audio overflowed it. Each listener’s page reports its own count, so this readout covers Direct and Relay alike. Hold the pointer over LISTENER DROPOUTS to see the count for each listener (up to six, most dropouts first), each with a short id, its count, and the last reason the page gave:
Each row also says how long ago the last dropout was, and LEFT for a listener who has closed the page. A count that climbs for one listener alone points at that listener’s connection (see Troubleshooting).