completed Soundcloud playback counts are skyhigh?

I just got this from a member, and I'm wondering about it. There's no way 300 people have played his soundcloud clip in a couple hours on my site:
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Hi Strumelia,
I have noticed something that you may not be aware of regarding sound cloud links. Whenever I post a link, the number of plays reported on Sound Cloud jumps dramatically. Like into the thousands. I'm wondering if there is a "default play" setting on the new site that launches the sound cloud stream whenever users log in, or open the main page.
While I am flattered that my recording of Elk River Blues has gotten 9,200 plays since June 7, I find it a little hard to believe.
This is what happened when I linked my Shady Grove track today.






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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015
updated by @strumelia: 08/17/15 07:30:48AM

Since the soundcloud player is "auto play" it's going to count a play for everyone that views the page for the song.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

What about when it appears in activity feeds like on the site main index page, or on the site/audio page? Does it actually have to start playing to be counted?


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

Actually, there is no way to know if an embedded player like soundcloud has been played so the play counter is incremented every time the page is viewed on the assumption that the player is likely set to 'auto play' anyway.
Not ideal, I know!!


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Oh, it's ok with me, my member and I just wanted to understand why it was happening.
Thanks for the explanation!


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

I tried using the event tracer a few months ago to track YouTube plays and found that since all browsers don't work the same the results were inconsistent. So I gave up on this idea.