Tracking when a MP3 gets played

[queerfm]

Hi Guys,

I have an Advertiser that advertises on MANY radio station however NOT all give him a playlist of when his ad has been played. Is there anyway i can embed something into the MP3 so he gets told when it got played or how many times it got played at lest?

Thanks

[Twey]

Luckily not, no. It would raise some privacy issues if there were.

[mburt]

Maybe a pre-recorded time length could be set for each mp3 song, and then a function could time it according to that length... But that's a maybe.

[thetestingsite]

If you are using shoutcast as a server, you could access the "Recently Played" list, and use PHP to search through each line of that list for the title of the ad. Perhaps some other servers use this as well, but you would have to do some researching for this.

Hope this helps nonetheless.