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Just so you aware, while the source of your MPEG OVERRIDE may be from shoutcast's radio player - it's not necessarily the case. Any flash-based internet radio app will report itself as MPEG OVERRIDE.
The reason people use flash radio players is because listeners like them. There really is no other good way to play a radio station stream in a browser. It's the same reason flash has become the standard for video player - everyone has it installed.
As for logs, they're useful when there's a problem. If your station is running well, forget about the logs. Seriously. Turn it off and spend your time working on your playlist, shows and station's web site. If your listeners want to use flash to listen to your station, why would you want to ban them? As for 30 people connected for 10 minutes or 1 person listening for five hours, it's still one concurrent listener.
Running a station is a marathon, not a sprint. If your concurrent listeners increase week over week, month over month, year over year, then you can assume that whatever you're doing is working (and banning listeners because they choose to use flash to listen to your station isn't going to endear them to your station).
Anyways, if you want to parse your logs for listener data, it doesn't matter if they're reconnecting or not. They have the same IP number, and you can get their total listening time. You shouldn't even have to look at the log files. There are plenty of log analyzers designed to look at shoutcast logs that will do the job for you.
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