How to detect on Windows if MinimServer (+BubbleUPnP Server) is actively streaming?

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(18-11-2018 22:09)simoncn Wrote:  It is hard for me to say what is happening without seeing the trace log information that I requested in my previous post. My guess from what you have posted so far is that BubbleUPnP's urlcache.dat file might be a cache of streamed audio data. MinimServer does not use such a cache but streams data from the audio file "on demand" as requested by the renderer.

I'm not sure what I should screen capture to illustrate the idea. What I meant is that when BubbleUPnP Server caches data (it caches MinimServer-affixed urls), MinimServer's logging stops after a while because BubbleUPnP Server can then utilize its own cache.

Whereas what I need is to MinimServer to keep on logging to be able to detect streaming activity. But like I said it's a hack, which fortunately though seems to work more predictably for my needs than relying on Windows' own power management.

Just today, most likely because of a pretty recent Windows bug, I needed to move the minimserver.log from the default location to my Documents folder - closer to root. Reason being that Windows stopped refreshing the file metadata all of a sudden, which according to some reports may happen if the file path is very long. And as my script relies on detecting minimserver.log file size changing over time (in practical terms indicating streaming), my script temporarily failed. Let's see how it goes, so far so good.