{"id":423,"date":"2012-04-27T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-04-29T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T17:48:20","slug":"building-a-streaming-radio-station-part-3-streaming-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/building-a-streaming-radio-station-part-3-streaming-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Streaming Radio Station, Part 3: Streaming Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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stk.fm in action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the final segment of my blog post about building a streaming radio station. Part 1 can be found here<\/a>, and part 2 can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Streaming Analytics<\/h1>\n

The station was just about ready to launch. Just one part was missing – analytics. It’s difficult to keep track of analytics for streaming audio simply due to the nature of the content. I couldn’t find an existing solution that fit my needs, so I built my own.<\/p>\n

I was only majorly concerned with a few different metrics – namely, how many people were listening, what they listened to, and how long they listened. I added a new table to the MySQL database that the rest of the site had been running on to keep track of these metrics. In the player’s check-in process, I added an include for a script which would register analytics. This script would add or update a row for that particular session (identified by PHP session ID) which stored:<\/p>\n

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  • Timestamps for the first and most recent check-ins<\/li>\n
  • The first and most recently listened to songs<\/li>\n
  • The number of seconds of music that were streamed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    It wasn’t possible to derive the length of time the user was actually listening from the start and end times, as the player wouldn’t check in if the stream was paused. However, I of course knew that the player checked in every five seconds, so I could use this to get a fairly close approximation of how much audio was actually streamed.<\/p>\n

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    Between now and the time that I started writing this series of blog posts, I unfortunately had to take stkbuzz down entirely. However, I do intend on making the previously mentioned Python script open source soon – I’d hate to see it go to waste!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The station was just about ready to launch. Just one part was missing – analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,21],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deadcodersociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}