--- title: "Audio Mount Configuration" slug: "audio-mount-configuration" updated: 2024-01-26T21:15:24Z published: 2024-01-26T21:15:24Z --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.tritondigital.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Audio Mount Configuration Live streaming stations can stream in in both AAC and MP3 formats, and at different bitrates. AAC is generally more common and is the best choice if only one format is used. However, some older listening devices do not support the AAC format, so most stations use both an ACC mount and an MP3 mount as a fallback. (With both AAC and MP3 mounts, the stream switches automatically from AAC to MP3 if it detects that AAC is not supported.) Your station’s mounts appear in the **Mount Information** panel. Depending on your user role, you can monitor the selected station's mount(s), stop and start the streaming, and edit the mount configuration. To access the options, **click the triangle for the mount** in the Mount Information panel. ![Mount-info-closed](https://cdn.document360.io/7124b381-0a94-401a-abbd-9df9c4ea5dff/Images/Documentation/223582d2-050f-4aab-8334-0bfd4a526bec.png) ![Mount-info-open](https://cdn.document360.io/7124b381-0a94-401a-abbd-9df9c4ea5dff/Images/Documentation/0a263c19-dc65-4a5b-9baf-d143b64f8b45.png) #### Listening to (Monitoring) the Stream The small Flash-based player that appears when you click **Listen**in the mount's Available Options menu has been deprecated. A better option for monitoring your live stream is to use the browser-based FLV Debug tool, [described here](https://tritondigitalcommunity.force.com/s/article/Cue-Point-and-Metadata-Monitoring). #### Stopping and Starting the Stream This option is available to Broadcaster Administrators, Broadcast Managers, and Engineers. Warning**Use this feature with caution!** Stopping your stream from the Available Options menu **disables** the mount and the station is removed from your Station Manager mounts list, effectively stopping the stream *for all listeners*. The process of stopping and starting the stream with this tool can take several minutes and should be considered risky; depending on several variables, you might have to contact Customer Support in order to re-enable the stream. In the Mount Information **Available Options**, click **Stop Streaming** to disable the mount’s stream. It might take a minute or two for the mount to disable. Once the mount is disabled, the button label changes to **Start Streaming**. Click **Start Streaming** to resume the stream. ![Mount-info-open-do-not-stop](https://cdn.document360.io/7124b381-0a94-401a-abbd-9df9c4ea5dff/Images/Documentation/0ab5b9d8-5bed-4bf0-be53-7690e974db71.png) #### Editing the Mount Configuration This option is available to Broadcaster Administrators, Broadcast Managers, and Engineers. Click **Edit**in the **Available Options** menu to open the Mount Configuration panel. The items that appear on the Mount Configuration panel depend on the type of mount. Also, some items will not be editable if your user role does not include permission to edit them. They are set up at stream activation; contact your Broadcaster Administrator or [Triton Digital Customer Support](http://support.tritondigital.com) if you need to make changes there. The following window appears, where you configure the parameters of your stream. Note the mount’s **Stream Alert** and **Audio Level Configuration.** ![StreamConfig-MountInfo-AudioMountConfig](https://cdn.document360.io/7124b381-0a94-401a-abbd-9df9c4ea5dff/Images/Documentation/d0e9ed70-2faf-4fca-9ffa-4610fa4e0228.png) **Audio Mount Configuration** | **Item** | **Description** | | --- | --- | | **Stream Configuration** | | **Name** | The name of the mount. *The mount name must be UPPERCASE!* | | **Format** | The stream format. | | **Disable This Stream** | Checking this option will disable the stream, similar to the way the **Stop Streaming** button does on the main page of the**Stream Configuration** tab. | | **Max Listeners** | You can select the maximum number of concurrent listeners allowed for the stream. If your simultaneous listener base exceeds this value, would-be listeners will be told the stream is unavailable. It can be used to cap your data transfer. **The 0 value represents an infinite number of listeners**. | | **Disable Stream Alert** | Select this to disable stream alerts. **Not recommended!** Typically, this is only used while doing mount maintenance. | | **Send Stream Alert To** | A stream alert is issued when there is a break in the connection between the Media Proxy and the Media Relay that extends beyond a timeout threshold. Enter the email address that automatic stream alerts should be sent to. You can enter additional addresses by clicking the “+” button that appears after you enter the first address. If you do not want to receive alerts, check the **Disable Stream Alert** box (this is **not** **recommended** because you need to know as soon as possible when your stream is down). The stream alert timeout threshold is configured by Triton Digital; if you wish to adjust the timeout, contact [Triton Digital Customer Support](http://support.tritondigital.com/). | | **PLS Link** | This item will be deprecated in mid-2021. This field shows the PLS-format URL of the stream, if there is one. You can copy the URL from here if you need to send it to someone who is configuring a third-party player to use your PLS stream.Not | | **ASX Link** | This item will be deprecated in mid-2021. This field shows the ASX-format URL of the stream, if there is one. You can copy the URL from here if you need to send it to someone who is configuring a third-party player to use your ASX stream. | | **Flash Player HTML** | This field includes the Flash player HTML, which you can copy and paste into your web pages to integrate the player. | | **Audio Track Configuration** | | **Codec** | Indicates the audio container format. | | **Bitrate** | This field shows the maximum bitrate.**It can only be changed by Triton Digital**. Contact [Triton Digital Customer Support](http://support.tritondigital.com/). **Note**: increasing the bitrate will lead to higher streaming data charges for both you and your listeners. Lowering the bitrate too much will lead to decreased audio quality. | | **Stream Option** | This field shows the sampling rate at which your feed is encoded. **It can only be changed by Triton Digital**. Contact [Triton Digital Customer Support](http://support.tritondigital.com/). | | **Audio Level Configuration** | | **Dead Air Power** | This value represents the sound level at which the Audio Encoder will consider the stream to be dead air. An alert is sent if one or more email addresses are specified in the Email field. The default value is -30 dB. **Note that this is an optional item only available by special request.** Contact your Triton Digital solutions specialist for more information. | | **Problem Timeout (sec)** | The sustained time duration in seconds of audio power level problems. (*Note: this is separate from the stream alert timeout threshold described above*.) This value is configured by Triton Digital; if you wish to adjust the timeout, contact [Triton Digital Customer Support](http://support.tritondigital.com/). | | **Email** | Enter the email address to be used for Problem Timeout alerts. You can enter additional addresses by clicking the “+” button that appears after you enter the first address. **Note:** you might receive alert emails telling you that the stream is back on-air (“*The audio signal is now present for the mount as of *”) even though you did not receive an alert that there was a dead air problem. This happens when the dead air problem was of a shorter duration than the timeout threshold. For example, if the dead air alert timeout threshold is 30 seconds, and your stream has dead air for only ten seconds, you will only receive the “back on-air” alert. |