Why Use Software To Streamline Music Catalogue Management?

Streamlined music catalogue management is essential for efficiency and productivity. However, if it is not used properly, even the best software can create confusion. The key is to choose the right package and ensure that you are fully supported. At Curve, we have an outstanding software solution, accompanied by expert help. Here’s what’s on offer.

Keep It Centralised

In a world where data is valued in the meta, keeping your information in one place is more important than ever. In the case of music catalogues, there are multiple layers of metadata to consider. These include accurately capturing your catalogues' rightsholder information, their details and most importantly, storing the correct splits for each catalogue item to ensure correct payments.

Locating this information either manually or via traditional spreadsheets can be exasperating, with the organisation of your catalogue being constantly at risk of errors and duplicates. By centralising your information, you have instant access to one tool that not only holds your catalogue information, but can also calculate royalties against it and produce statements for your rightsholders to retrieve from their own portal.

Keep It On Track

Between catalogue metadata creation and registration, royalty ingestion and calculation, statement validation and statement delivery, it is very easy to make mistakes, and that's before we even start talking about mechanical licenses, neighbouring rights or complex agreement scenarios! This is a problem that grows exponentially as your catalogue doubles, triples, and quadruples in size. Keeping on top of registrations can quickly become a backlog of headaches, and correcting errors is a time-consuming waste of productivity.

Curve is built to effortlessly navigate millions of lines. This is particularly useful when you receive catalogues and royalties from a variety of sources, all formatted in their own way and with their own data points. Curve allows you to easily ingest these files and normalise them, allowing both you and your rightsholders to get a better understanding of the royalties received.

Keep Costs In Check

For publishers, in particular, catalogue registration is a notorious drain on time and resources. As catalogues increase, the workload is amplified. For music publishing catalogue management, the result of not using specialised software can be an expensive malady.

With allies such as Curve, your CWR deliveries can be automated, ensuring accuracy while saving valuable time. Your registration files will compile themselves according to your own selection criteria, and the software will handle all of the sending, ingesting, processing returned ACK files and updating the catalogue items’ statuses. This enables you to keep your costs in check while streamlining your resources.

Keep It Flexible

Each business is unique, and this flourishes as external forces push and pull at the industry. Dusty catalogues are prone to unprecedented revivals, while the hot new talent can fizzle into smoke. As such, it is vital that a music publishing catalogue software is rapid, accessible, and usable.

At Curve, we ensure that flexibility is at your fingertips. Whether it’s a specific production of CWR work registration files or careful analysis of your ingested sales data, we offer complete control over your catalogue.

Keep It Secure

Whether you are a creator or a music company, data security is at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Music companies have a duty of digital care to rightsholders. Consequently, storing catalogues and their associated data can be precarious. Since the music industry runs on data, keeping it safe and secure is a high priority.

Thankfully, software companies such as Curve take this responsibility very seriously. Curve is a cloud-based solution, which means you will always have access to your data from any device. The company and staff members are ISO certified, and therefore strict procedures are in place for data storage, retrieval and access management. As such, both you and your clients can relax in the protection that expert collaboration offers.

What Next?

Music publishing management software can offer significant advantages, both in terms of sales and safety. To maximise its potential, it always pays to partner with an expert team that can navigate the complexities on your behalf. To learn more, click on our video tour!