: Detailed access statistics for audio files We have an external hosting company for our video files. They provide us with detailed access statistics e.g. The duration how long how many people

@Nimeshi995

A good method is what Stephen posted but in additional to that I believe Google Analytics can be setup to pretty much any 'Event' using their API. I'm sure this is something you can get a web developer to code but then you would need to host the files on your own hosting such as a CDN since on a normal server it'll drain your bandwidth with large mp3's.

It should be more affordable and provide better stats if you outsource the hosting such as soundcloud which again Steve posted.

A typical HTML5 example of this working to track start and end would be:

<audio src="your_audio.ogg">
Your browser does not support the <code>audio</code> element.
</audio>

var v = document.getElementsByTagName("audio")[0];
v.addEventListener("loadstart", function() {
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Audio', 'Start']);

}, true);

v.addEventListener("ended", function() {
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Audio', 'End']);

}, true);


You can read more about Google's Analytics API on Google's Developers Site.

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@Eichhorn148

Have you looking into SoundCloud? I noticed that Stack Exchange uses them to host their podcast files. They have an article about how to use the statistics they collect.

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