Audio hosting
Audio hosting for your own sites and apps
Upload lectures, briefings, music or spoken-word audio once, and have it play inside your own pages through the same player, access rules and reporting you use for video—without sending listeners to a directory or an advertising-funded app.
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Artwork given room beside a full transport, for episodic or long-form listening.
Illustration of the player on a customer page — not a live embed
The basics
What audio hosting is, and how it differs from a podcast directory
Audio hosting stores your audio files on infrastructure built to stream them, prepares them for playback across devices and connections, and gives you a player and an embed so the listening experience is consistent on every page you place it. Serving a large audio file from an ordinary web host works until more than a handful of people press play at once.
A podcast directory or a public audio app solves a different problem: reach. It takes your audio into its own surface, with its own advertising, recommendations and listener data. Hosting audio yourself keeps the page, the branding, the access rules and the reporting on your side of the line—which is what businesses, educators and publishers with an existing audience usually need.
DynTube treats audio as a native product rather than a video with a black screen. Audio has its own projects, its own processing into audio-only streams, and the same player, embed, private-link and analytics model as video and live streaming, so one team learns one workflow for all three.
The mechanism
What happens to an audio file you upload
The pipeline, described as far as the current product verifies it—and no further.
- Upload into an audio projectIngest
- Common source formats such as WAV and MP3 are accepted through the dashboard or the API into an audio project, which carries the settings every asset in it inherits. Audio counts, minutes and file size are plan limits.
- Processing into audio-only streamsProcessing
- Each upload is probed and converted into audio-only HLS renditions, so playback adapts to the listener’s connection instead of downloading one large file. A project marks its content as speech or music so processing can treat it appropriately.
- Playback through the shared playerDelivery
- The DynTube player presents audio with artwork, an optional waveform and captions or lyrics where your project enables them, and the embed works wherever your site or course platform accepts an HTML embed.
- Private linksAccess
- Share an audio asset through a private link that grants playback without a public listing, and rotate or revoke that link when it should stop working.
- Listening reportsMeasurement
- When telemetry is available, reporting shows plays, listening time, completion rate and unique listeners per asset, alongside your video and live reports.
- Transcription and translationSeparate metered workflow
- Transcripts and translations are produced as a separate metered processing step—the same model as automatic subtitles for video—rather than as part of every upload.
Sample data: one audio project
- Content class: speech
- Artwork set at the project, overridable per asset
- Waveform and captions shown in the player
- Private links enabled for enrolled listeners
What you can do
Audio capabilities, described within their configuration
Each item names the setting it depends on, so the page never promises a universal behaviour.
Artwork and waveform
Square and portrait artwork at the asset or project level, and a waveform display the project’s player settings can switch on.
Captions and lyrics
Attach caption or lyric tracks and show them in the player where the project enables captions.
Private links
Grant playback to a chosen audience without a public listing; rotate or revoke a link the moment it should stop working.
One embed, audio presentation
The same DynTube embed used for video presents audio natively, so your pages keep one player and one set of controls.
Listening reports
Plays, listening time, completion rate and unique listeners per asset when telemetry is available.
Video as audio
Where enabled, publish an audio-only rendition derived from a video so a lecture can be listened to as well as watched.
Start with one file
Test audio hosting with one real recording
You do not need to move a catalogue to evaluate the product.
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Create an audio project
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Upload one file
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Embed it, or share a private link
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Read the listening report
Questions
Audio hosting questions
Direct answers, each within the current product boundary.
Is DynTube a podcast host?
No. DynTube hosts audio for playback on your own sites and apps through your own player. It does not submit your audio to podcast directories or syndicate it to third-party apps, and this page makes no monetisation claim.
Which audio formats can I upload?
Common source formats such as WAV and MP3 are accepted, and every upload is processed into audio-only HLS renditions for playback. If a specific format matters to you, test it with one file during the trial rather than relying on a list.
Is audio included in every plan?
Audio hosting is a feature-gated product with plan-limited counts, minutes, file size and storage share. The pricing page renders the current catalogue; confirm the audio limits of the plan you are considering rather than assuming them.
Can I keep audio private?
Yes. Audio is not publicly listed anywhere by default, and private links grant playback to a chosen audience and can be rotated or revoked. Access controls reduce unauthorised redistribution; they cannot stop an authorised listener recording what they hear.
What listening analytics do I get?
When telemetry is available, reporting shows plays, listening time, completion rate and unique listeners per audio asset, in the same reporting model as your video and live streams.
Can DynTube transcribe or translate my audio?
Transcription and translation are available as a separate metered processing step, not as part of every upload—the same model as automatic subtitles for video. You can also attach caption or lyric tracks you already have.
Try it with one recording and one page you own
Upload a real file, embed it, share a private link, and read the listening report. That is the whole product, tested on your own content.