Catalog enrichment, visibility, and discoverability for labels and distributors — built on decades of music metadata expertise, a proprietary matching engine, and a global editorial network.
As DSP rules tighten, metadata fractures and legacy catalogs swell. Distributors and labels need one reliable foundation to protect and grow revenue.
Inconsistent metadata
Limits discoverability, editorial pitches, and payouts on every streaming platform.
Fragmented pipeline
Scattered across distributors, DSPs and CMOs, with no single source of truth.
Lost royalties & attribution
Missing ISRCs or artist links break tracking and quietly leak revenue.
Missed recommendations
Without rich, accurate metadata, you're less likely to be recommended.
A hybrid model combining technology, structure, and human expertise — a modular framework designed to support music metadata operations at any scale.
Engineering
AUTOMATION
Editorial Expertise
A proven infrastructure for seamless metadata operations — from quality audits to delivery.
Quality Assessment
An audit engine built around DSP requirements, delivering actionable scores and clear paths to correction.
Automatic Catalog Cleansing
Upgrade and repair metadata health at multi-million track scale.
Guaranteed Coverage
Expert human curation to ensure accuracy at the final stage of automated workflows.
Lyrics
17M+ premium licensed lyrics via LyricFind, time-synced and pre-matched.
External IDs
Verified, pre-linked IDs across all major DSPs at artist, album, and recording level.
Credits
Granular credit mapping for every contributor role across albums and recordings.
Bespoke Delivery
Seamless interoperability with DDEX ERN, MEAD, CWR, and DSP schemas.
Adapted Support
End-to-end operational guidance from integration to live deployment.
An automated audit engine assessing metadata health through the lens of DSP guidelines –– delivering actionable scores and instant recommendations for improvement.
Continuously tracks 300+ quality rules published by major platforms like Apple Music and Spotify — an objective, authoritative framework for compliance.
Programmatically screens 100 to 150 critical metadata criteria to instantly deliver a global data health score.
Identifies exact catalog gaps and connects them to Music Story's enrichment solutions to fix, clean, and redeliver compliant content.
Upgrade and repair your metadata health at multi-million track scale.
High-Performance Matching Engine
Our proprietary matching engine V6 accurately identifies, disambiguates, and enriches artist profiles, releases, and recordings across large-scale catalogs.
High Quality Repository
Match against our repository to retrieve accurate, verified content.
Catalog Fixing
Combine DSP guideline corrections with Music Story's additional data for a fully cleaned catalog.
Deep Identifier Enrichment
Injects critical cross-platform assets: ISNIs, ISRC clusters, ISWCs, translated names and titles, micro-genres, original release dates.
Linking to Industry IDs
Broad coverage and pre-linking across Apple, Spotify, Deezer, and more.
Ready-to-Use, Proprietary Catalog
Your catalog remains available at all times and easy to manage. You retain full ownership and control.
To cover the last mile, we mobilize expert human curation to secure automated catalog workflows.
A trained, global network of metadata specialists with expertise in local repertoires, dedicated to complex disambiguation, version management, and catalog cleanup.
Secure, purpose-built tools engineered to maximize processing accuracy and manual matching speed.
We deploy the right resources, organization, processes, tracking, and quality control to meet the expected target.
Modular enrichment layers — external IDs, credits, and lyrics — all pre-matched against Music Story IDs.
Verified external IDs across major DSPs, pre-linked at artist, album and recording level using our proven matching technology.
Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Qobuz, Line, Melon, Napster, MusicBrainz, Discogs…
A premium all-in-one lyric solution powered by our historical partnership with LyricFind, fully pre-matched with our database.
17M+ songs · 200 geographies · 33 languages · time-synced · DSP compliance ready.
Rich, multilingual artist biographies curated and verified by our editorial team, pre-matched to every artist profile in your catalog.
Multi-language · Editorial verified · DSP compliant
High-quality artist photos, properly licensed and formatted for seamless distribution across all major platforms.
Licensed photos · Album artwork · Platform-ready formats
Seamless interoperability with the formats your downstream systems already use —so enriched metadata flows straight into every DSP and partner.
Native delivery into DDEX ERN, MEAD, CWR and DSP schemas, allowing enriched metadata to flow directly into every downstream system without reprocessing.
We map our data model to your exact field structure and delivery format — CSV, XML, JSON, or direct database feeds.
Scheduled deltas and full refreshes keep your catalog current, with versioning and quality control across every update.
End-to-end operational guidance from integration to live deployment.
Dedicated engagement leaders managing your deployment timeline — from initial planning through development to completion.
Rapidly mobilize global expert operational resources on-demand for historical catalog cleaning and volume spikes.
Direct engineering support for APIs, feeds, and workflows paired with ongoing editorial consulting on content coverage and legal validation.
A major Asian entertainment group — active in music, talent management, live events, and digital content — needed to structure a 300,000-track legacy catalog for the streaming era.
300K
Track legacy catalog
Fragmented, low-quality metadata across multiple DSPs and partners
8
Specialists in Japan
Dedicated team working under strict SLAs over a multi-month timeline
2-step
Automated + manual matching
Accurate identification, correction and enrichment of all recordings
DDEX ERN, MEAD, CWR, CSV, Excel, XML, JSON and direct database exports. Our ingestion pipeline normalizes them automatically.
A typical catalog of 10K–100K releases is matched in 24–48 hours. Larger catalogs (1M+) may take up to a week, with progress reports throughout.
It depends on genre and metadata quality. Unmatched entries are flagged for manual review by our editorial team.
Yes. We run one-time enrichment projects on legacy catalogs and keep them in sync continuously.
Yes. We work with labels of all sizes, from major groups to independent imprints. Pricing scales with catalog size.
Share your catalog details and metadata needs and we'll prepare a tailored enrichment proposal — including matching estimates, timeline, and pricing.
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