TrackRate

Find out how people actually listened.

Share a track and get a page anyone can open — no account, nothing to install. Then see which seconds they really heard, where they stopped, and which four bars they went back for.

Free while it's early — no card, no install.

0:484 of 11 listeners stopped here. One row per person, one pixel per second — orange is a section someone went back for.

The whole point

No streaming platform will tell you this.

Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud and Bandcamp embeds give you a play count and nothing else. None of them will tell you that four of your eleven listeners stopped at 0:48 — because none of them measure the track, they measure the platform. The only way to find out is to host the track somewhere that watches.

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The same eleven listeners, as a curve. Four of them are gone at 0:48 — that is the step. It only ever falls, so there is nothing to learn before you can read it.

Where they stopped

A curve that only ever falls, so you can read it without being taught how. The biggest drop-off is written as a sentence before it is drawn as a chart.

What they replayed

Going back to hear something twice is the strongest praise a listener gives without being asked. Looping the chorus can't inflate your numbers — it shows up as heat instead.

Why they tapped

Every thumbs up and down can carry a reason, written once the song is over so nobody stops listening to type. You get the moment and the words together.

How we treat your listeners

Listener pages set no cookies and make no third-party requests. Nobody signs in and nobody is tracked across the web. A listener can let their browser remember a listen for 7 days, so they can come back and answer your questions later, and nothing is kept on their device unless they say yes. Feedback is anonymous unless you ask for listeners' names on a track, which is off unless you turn it on.

The honest cost of that: someone who reloads the page counts twice. We report listens as listens and never dress an estimate up as a headcount.

Questions people ask before they upload anything

How can I find out where listeners stop in my song?

Upload the track to TrackRate and share the link it gives you. Every listener's playback is measured second by second, so you get a retention curve showing exactly how many people were still listening at 0:48 — and how many were not. Listeners need no account and no app.

Why don't Spotify or SoundCloud show me where people skip?

Streaming platforms report plays, saves and skips at the platform level, and their embeds expose nothing server-side to whoever uploaded the track. Neither Spotify for Artists, YouTube Studio, SoundCloud Pro nor Bandcamp will tell you which second a listener stopped at. The only way to measure a track is to host it somewhere that measures it.

How do I get feedback on a demo without making people sign up?

A TrackRate link opens to a player with no login, no app and no cookies. Listeners can tap a thumbs-up at any moment in the track and answer a short set of questions you wrote yourself.

What exactly does TrackRate measure?

Which seconds of the track each listener actually heard, how far they got before stopping, which sections they replayed, where they tapped a reaction, and their answers to your feedback form. Not who they are — unless you ask for their name on that track, in which case they give it to send their answers. There is no account, and nothing is stored on their device unless they choose to let it remember their listen.

Do you track listeners around the web?

No. A listen page sets no cookies and makes no third-party requests. It stores nothing on the device unless the listener agrees to let it remember their listen for 7 days, so they can answer your questions later. The cost of that is real and we state it: a reload counts as a second listen, so the headline number is listens, not people.

Find out where yours stop.

Free while it's early — no card, no install. One track takes about a minute.