Echonest track profile requests always return an empty audio_summary

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I'm requesting bucket=audio_summary for songs that rank highly in hotttness. The top 100 hotttessst songs all return track.status: 'complete' but the audio summary is always an empty object.

How do I get audio summary data like time_signature and tempo? Doesn't track.status: complete imply that this information should be included in the response?

Can't Feel My Face 
https://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/track/profile?api_key=*****************&format=json&id=SOMVZDS14DDE5909E7&bucket=audio_summary

  {
    "response": {
      "status": {
        "version": "4.2",
        "code": 0,
        "message": "Success"
      },
      "track": {
        "status": "complete",
        "id": "SOZOIDR14C02B654D4",
        "audio_summary": {}
      }
    }
  }
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David W Gray On BEST ANSWER

It looks like you have the SongId rather than the TrackId for this song. If you replace 'track' with 'song' in your query you get the expected results.

This: https://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/song/profile?api_key=*****************&format=json&id=SOMVZDS14DDE5909E7&bucket=audio_summary

Returns this:

{  
   "response":{  
      "status":{  
         "version":"4.2",
         "code":0,
         "message":"Success"
      },
      "songs":[  
         {  
            "artist_id":"ARYUDWF12F2B89BB33",
            "artist_name":"The Weeknd",
            "id":"SOMVZDS14DDE5909E7",
            "audio_summary":{  
               "key":9,
               "analysis_url":"http://echonest-analysis.s3.amazonaws.com/TR/A7NwGAWSmhnc53M8w1rLk-eA_tsN8OUHaqV5C5FTbb9BnCPZVnxWOGld1wLxJJ-xdNV8xKJbbZlCRSKJc%3D/3/full.json?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJRDFEY23UEVW42BQ&Expires=1454028841&Signature=HeUxbEJt4f0ncipjD1Gamtuj08E%3D",
               "energy":0.781735,
               "liveness":0.12022,
               "tempo":107.954,
               "speechiness":0.042317,
               "acousticness":0.124391,
               "instrumentalness":0.0,
               "mode":0,
               "time_signature":4,
               "duration":216.46667,
               "loudness":-5.528,
               "audio_md5":"",
               "valence":0.586261,
               "danceability":0.713659
            },
            "title":"Can't Feel My Face"
         }
      ]
   }
}

The only reason I was able to track this down was that throwing any ID into the track API give back the stub response you were seeing and I was able to get the audio_summary for this song using the spotify id so I knew it was available.