Successfully tracked mp3 plays!

  • Thank goodness for this plugin! Here’s the solution I found to track individual mp3 streams with this GET plugin + Hauki Minimalist Player + Yoast’s Google Analytics

    1. I set up Yoast’s google analytics plugin in Universal mode. Don’t know if this is necessary, but that’s how it was when I got the whole deal working.

    2. I used the Haiku minimalist player plugin to add single-track players for my 11 songs: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/haiku-minimalist-audio-player

    3. Each play BUTTON on the page has a unique id, listed in order. So #haiku-play-1, then #haiku-play-2, and so on. I used these IDs in the GET plugin to track

    4. So my settings in the GET plugin are 11 different custom trackers:

    Player Play – TRACK1TITLE
    #haiku-play-1
    MP3 Streams – TRACK1TITLE
    On MouseClick –> Played
    Played__{ITEM_TITLE}_{PAGE_RELATIVE_URL}_{LINK_RELATIVE_URL}

    Player Play – TRACK2TITLE
    #haiku-play-2
    MP3 Streams – TRACK2TITLE
    On MouseClick –> Played
    Played__{ITEM_TITLE}_{PAGE_RELATIVE_URL}_{LINK_RELATIVE_URL}

    …..and so on down the line through track 11. Some of that labeling might be redundant but it made things clear enough in Google Analytics. So now I’m getting real time data about when people are clicking play on each individual track! WOO!

    Hope this helps other folks!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/gravitate-event-tracking/

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  • Thread Starter MattDotCom

    (@mattdotcom)

    Note to others: if possible you should just use Bandcamp to do all this and get much better stats (partial VS complete plays, etc). But I needed to set up something for a secret, yet-to-be-public album so Bandcamp wasn’t an option. Downside to this setup is that it tracks every time the PLAY button is clicked, so if someone hits play, then pause, then play again it counts as 2 plays.

    oh well – the ballpark number is still helpful!

    Plugin Author Gravitate

    (@gravitate)

    Thanks MattDotCom.
    You made my day!

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