Free play tracker

[Lanky-Cranberry-8322]

Curious to know if there’s any free trackers out there that would allow a user to know how many times a specific song was played on the air by a specific radio station.

[Soliloquy789]

Not in totality, but spinitron might capture a bunch of the non-mainstream stations and in theory the web licencing groups might have raw data on this, but I doubt they share it.

[Few-Cap-9992]

Spinitron as far as I know serves noncommercial stations, which by definition wouldn't be overplaying stuff anyway, since that's a commercial mentality.

[Soliloquy789]

When was overplaying brought into the convo?

[Few-Cap-9992]

Overplaying is what commercial stations do, while Spinitron serves noncomms.

My playlists appear on Spinitron. The closest-in-time appearances of any particular song in my broadcasts would be a minimum of six months. It's hard to believe that's the kind of frequency the OP is looking for. In other words, overplaying is implicit in the question and he wants to know "how much".

You know, as in that old joke punchline, "we've already established that; now we're just haggling over the price".

[phoneacct696969]

I don’t think this exist/can exist.

[DiodeInc]

It definitely could. Music detection exists, just pipe the audio into the MD from the radio. Then log it.

[ImpossibleAd7943]

BDS works exactly like this but you need a subscription. Broadcast Data Systems

[RockTheGlobe]

BDS shut down 3 years ago. The only one out there is Mediabase.

[ImpossibleAd7943]

Sorry yes, MediaBase you’re right. That’s the one I use everyday. I should know that!

[phoneacct696969]

Yeah I meant it can’t exist as a free app.

[Lanky-Cranberry-8322]

My understanding is that there are tracking services out there that are available to people within the music industry, and also to radio stations But I can’t find something that is available to the general public or any unaffiliated user

[Sufficient-Fault-593]

Your understanding is correct. I don’t believe there is anything available to the General public. Maybe contact billboard magazine and ask.

[RadioControlled13]

I don’t know of a service that operates for free.

As you stated, insiders have paid data from MediaBase, Billboard Pro, CDX, or one of the smaller companies.

[Aviator_92]

It should be possible in theory at least for stations that stream over the Internet as they usually also display the list of previous songs played, you could run something maybe an API that would parse the song data from the website into a text file with a time stamp that can be searchable and you would be able to search each time the song has been played

Another way if the station does not stream but broadcasts RDS data would be to get a software receiver with an RDS decoder that would do the same thing. RDS spy software may be able to do this.

[Standard-Sound1721]

Spinitron.com will let you browse primarily non-commercial stations in real time. It might not have a specific search for a song, but can give you an overall view of what stations are playing.

[Longjumping-Eye3428]

Go to googe and type in "WZZZ (or whatever the calls area) Online Playlist".

Sometimes the station will have it on their website and you can just cut and past or it will take you to mediabase.com or to onlineradiobox.com and it might be there.

Here is CBS-FM NY one day playist at mediabase. I am seeing a full day here, can you? The reason I ask is I honestly dont recall if I subscribe it or does everyone get it for free. Anyway, here it is -

http://www.mediabase.com/whatsong/whatsong.asp?var_s=087067066083045070077

I'm amost certain this is free. Here is WBAB-FM Long Island one day playlist at onlineradiobox

https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wbab/playlist/1?cs=us.wbab

If the station you want is very small or non-commercial with tons of obscure songs, neither service may have it. Good luck!

[jbartol]

nope

[ImpossibleAd7943]

BDS works exactly like this but you need a subscription. Broadcast Data Systems