MPEG OVERRIDE (SHOUTcast radio) annoyance

[Orions Radio]

OK ... my logs are getting filled with people listening to my station for hours. this is a good thing you might say ... well it would be if those people didn't connect 6 times every hour.

MPEG OVERRIDE is what SHOUTcast radio shows up as in the logs. SHOUTcast radio will reconnect the listeners every 10 minutes but to the listener its seamless... they have no idea they are reconnecting every 10 minutes.

This is very annoying and I would like to write a script or something that would check the user agent (either at an interval or when a person logs into the station) and if its from MPEG OVERRIDE then I would like them to be added to the ban list and kick the person out of the station. Unfortunately, I'm not that good at writing scripts or code so I will ask if anyone here can give me some suggestions as to how I would accomplish this.

This sounds extreme and would ban a lot of "good listeners" but I'm sick of the logs being filled unnecessarily and the stats being totally thrown off by the SHOUTcast radio.

I do have another thread where I have asked the developers to fix this issue with SHOUTcast radio but haven't heard back on that part of the thread yet. They seemed to have fixed the other issue quite quickly but never even mentioned the problem with the web based radio on their site. I am going to try to make a poll with this post to see if others are annoyed by this and maybe if enough people are pissed off... they will do something about it