RE: FN-FORUM: Tracking MP3 downloads

date posted 1st March 2004 14:24

Hi Paul

Have a play about with analog (http://www.analog.cx/), very easy to get
working, lots of example scripts, even a non-techy will get it working.

Norman

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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Tracking MP3 downloads



Dom wrote:

> On Monday 01 Mar 2004 2:31 pm, Paul J White wrote:
>
>>What would be the simplest way to count the number of times an MP3
>>file is downloaded? We don't need to know who or when etc. It is the
>>client's idea to offer original music in return for a donation, but we

>>want to run a trial to see what % of people are playing fair. Any
>>thoughts?
>
>
> "grep filename.mp3 /var/log/httpd/access_log | wc --lines"
>
That may be simple to you mate, but it may as well be Chinese to me ;-)

Thanks to all for your thoughts anyway - the raw logs are something of
a nightmare to a non techie like me, but I've a few things to look at.

Cheers, Paul.

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