About TrackRate
A musician can find out how many people played a track. Finding out where they stopped is a different question, and no streaming platform answers it.
Why it exists
Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud and Bandcamp all report plays. None of them will tell you that four of your eleven listeners quit at 0:48, because none of them expose per-second behaviour to the artist, and an embedded player on your own site reports nothing usable back to you either.
The only way to learn that is for the track to be hosted somewhere that measures it. TrackRate measures what TrackRate hosts. That is the whole product, and it is also its honest limit: we can tell you nothing about a play that happened anywhere else.
What we do differently
Listeners never make an account. They open a link and press play. The page sets no cookies, stores nothing on their device, and makes no third-party requests — which is why there is no consent banner on it. The privacy page says exactly what is recorded.
Numbers come with their denominators. Your first audience is about twelve people, where one person is eight percentage points. So the dashboard says “9 of 12” and never “75%”, and below twenty listeners it shows you one row per person instead of a smoothed curve. Averaging twelve humans into a percentage throws away the only detail that was worth having.
We say what the data cannot tell you. Because nothing is stored on anyone's device, a reload counts as a second listen — so the headline number is “listens”, and the listener count is an explicitly labelled estimate. We would rather show a range than dress a guess up as a headcount.
Who makes it
TrackRate is built by Sprung Interactive, which makes a small shelf of tools for working musicians.
Getting in touch
Bug reports, feature requests, and copyright reports all have a home on the contact page.