Reliable way to count Soundcloud audio playback through API?

Question

I use the API endpoint /tracks to get statistics on the song, for example, play count and number of favorites. I noticed that the play count in the API does not match the play amount on the website.

Here is an example

I found a workaround here at https://stackoverflow.com/a/3129605/2167 , but it seems that using this can be against Soundcloud ToS, although I did not find a specific article in ToS. In addition, I would prefer not to use the undocumented API, as it may be changed or removed without notice.

What would be the right way to get the real amount of playback for a track?

Answer 1

As you wrote a workaround , but it certainly violates ToS SoundCloud!

From SoundCloud, an attempt was made to clean up:

http://status.soundcloud.com/post/145855742725/stats-maintenance#note-container

This is after their update (August 3, 2016), so this is a mistake. My recommendation is to ask the forum for help, (a special part of stat) , they seem to answer little by little in this section.

Update: API worked as intended for 2017.10.09.