diff --git a/client/decoder/oggDecoder.cpp b/client/decoder/oggDecoder.cpp
index ab4808d4..2ea60be3 100644
--- a/client/decoder/oggDecoder.cpp
+++ b/client/decoder/oggDecoder.cpp
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ SampleFormat OggDecoder::setHeader(msg::Header* chunk)
 		++ptr;
 	}
 
-	logE << "Encoded by: " << vc.vendor << "\n";
+	logO << "Encoded by: " << vc.vendor << "\n";
 
 	/// OK, got and parsed all three headers. Initialize the Vorbis packet->PCM decoder.
 	if (vorbis_synthesis_init(&vd, &vi) == 0)
diff --git a/client/player/openslPlayer.cpp b/client/player/openslPlayer.cpp
index 4240951e..21b093de 100644
--- a/client/player/openslPlayer.cpp
+++ b/client/player/openslPlayer.cpp
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ void OpenslPlayer::uninitOpensl()
 //	if (!active_)
 //		return;
 
-	logE << "uninitOpensl\n";
+	logO << "uninitOpensl\n";
 	SLresult result;
 	logO << "OpenSLWrap_Shutdown - stopping playback\n";
 	if (bqPlayerPlay != NULL)
diff --git a/server/streamServer.cpp b/server/streamServer.cpp
index b85d7aac..d9dbc8de 100644
--- a/server/streamServer.cpp
+++ b/server/streamServer.cpp
@@ -91,14 +91,14 @@ void StreamServer::onDisconnect(StreamSession* streamSession)
 
 	logO << "onDisconnect: " << session->macAddress << "\n";
 	ClientInfoPtr clientInfo = Config::instance().getClientInfo(streamSession->macAddress);
-	logE << "sessions: " << sessions_.size() << "\n";
+	logD << "sessions: " << sessions_.size() << "\n";
 	// don't block: remove StreamSession in a thread
 	auto func = [](shared_ptr<StreamSession> s)->void{s->stop();};
 	std::thread t(func, session);
 	t.detach();
 	sessions_.erase(session);
 
-	logE << "sessions: " << sessions_.size() << "\n";
+	logD << "sessions: " << sessions_.size() << "\n";
 
 	// notify controllers if not yet done
 	if (!clientInfo || !clientInfo->connected)
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ void StreamServer::start()
 	streamManager_.reset(new StreamManager(this, settings_.sampleFormat, settings_.codec, settings_.streamReadMs));
 	//TODO: check uniqueness of the stream
 	for (auto& streamUri: settings_.pcmStreams)
-		logE << "Stream: " << streamManager_->addStream(streamUri)->getUri().toJson() << "\n";
+		logO << "Stream: " << streamManager_->addStream(streamUri)->getUri().toJson() << "\n";
 //	throw SnapException("bad");
 
 	streamManager_->start();
diff --git a/server/streamreader/pcmStream.cpp b/server/streamreader/pcmStream.cpp
index 57a324f2..54ab0f00 100644
--- a/server/streamreader/pcmStream.cpp
+++ b/server/streamreader/pcmStream.cpp
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ PcmStream::PcmStream(PcmListener* pcmListener, const StreamUri& uri) : pcmListen
  	if (uri_.query.find("sampleformat") == uri_.query.end())
 		throw SnapException("Stream URI must have a sampleformat");
 	sampleFormat_ = SampleFormat(uri_.query["sampleformat"]);
-	logE << "PcmStream sampleFormat: " << sampleFormat_.getFormat() << "\n";
+	logO << "PcmStream sampleFormat: " << sampleFormat_.getFormat() << "\n";
 
  	if (uri_.query.find("buffer_ms") != uri_.query.end())
 		pcmReadMs_ = cpt::stoul(uri_.query["buffer_ms"]);
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ const SampleFormat& PcmStream::getSampleFormat() const
 
 void PcmStream::start()
 {
-	logE << "PcmStream start: " << sampleFormat_.getFormat() << "\n";
+	logD << "PcmStream start: " << sampleFormat_.getFormat() << "\n";
 //TODO: wrong encoder settings leads to: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::system_error'  what():  Invalid argument
 	encoder_->init(this, sampleFormat_);
 
diff --git a/server/streamreader/streamManager.cpp b/server/streamreader/streamManager.cpp
index aa081d23..7f38ae64 100644
--- a/server/streamreader/streamManager.cpp
+++ b/server/streamreader/streamManager.cpp
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ PcmStream* StreamManager::addStream(const std::string& uri)
 	if (streamUri.query.find("buffer_ms") == streamUri.query.end())
 		streamUri.query["buffer_ms"] = to_string(readBufferMs_);
 
-//	logE << "\nURI: " << streamUri.uri << "\nscheme: " << streamUri.scheme << "\nhost: "
+//	logD << "\nURI: " << streamUri.uri << "\nscheme: " << streamUri.scheme << "\nhost: "
 //		<< streamUri.host << "\npath: " << streamUri.path << "\nfragment: " << streamUri.fragment << "\n";
 
 //	for (auto kv: streamUri.query)
-//		logE << "key: '" << kv.first << "' value: '" << kv.second << "'\n";
+//		logD << "key: '" << kv.first << "' value: '" << kv.second << "'\n";
 
 	if (streamUri.scheme == "pipe")
 	{
diff --git a/server/streamreader/streamUri.cpp b/server/streamreader/streamUri.cpp
index 73ad7a3e..5be69c2c 100644
--- a/server/streamreader/streamUri.cpp
+++ b/server/streamreader/streamUri.cpp
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ StreamUri::StreamUri(const std::string& streamUri)
 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier
 // scheme:[//[user:password@]host[:port]][/]path[?query][#fragment]
 // would be more elegant with regex. Not yet supported on my dev machine's gcc 4.8 :(
-	logE << "StreamUri: " << streamUri << "\n";
+	logD << "StreamUri: " << streamUri << "\n";
 	size_t pos;
 	uri = trim_copy(streamUri);
 	while (!uri.empty() && ((uri[0] == '\'') || (uri[0] == '"')))