For Labels & DistributorsEnrichment • Valuation • Discoverability

Converting metadata precision into global catalog performance

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.

The Metadata Conundrum

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.

Our Approach

A hybrid model combining technology, structure, and human expertise — a modular framework designed to support music metadata operations at any scale.

Engineering

Structures and normalizes data

  • Data normalization
  • Catalog ingestion (DSPs, labels…)
  • Multi-platform ID mapping

AUTOMATION

Automated matching capabilities

  • Semantic matching at scale
  • From large catalogs to the most complex cases
  • Trained on our own manual matching records
  • Boosts productivity of matching ops

Editorial Expertise

Validates and contextualizes metadata

  • Coordinated workflows worldwide
  • Technically skilled editors
  • On-demand scalability of local experts

Your Path to Flawless Catalog Performance

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.

Prototype Available

Quality Assessment

An automated audit engine assessing metadata health through the lens of DSP guidelines –– delivering actionable scores and instant recommendations for improvement.

DSP-Driven Benchmarking

Continuously tracks 300+ quality rules published by major platforms like Apple Music and Spotify — an objective, authoritative framework for compliance.

Automated Quality Scoring

Programmatically screens 100 to 150 critical metadata criteria to instantly deliver a global data health score.

Seamless Remediation

Identifies exact catalog gaps and connects them to Music Story's enrichment solutions to fix, clean, and redeliver compliant content.

Automatic Catalog Cleansing

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.

Global Manual Matching

To cover the last mile, we mobilize expert human curation to secure automated catalog workflows.

01

Global Operator Pool

A trained, global network of metadata specialists with expertise in local repertoires, dedicated to complex disambiguation, version management, and catalog cleanup.

02

Proprietary Operations Software

Secure, purpose-built tools engineered to maximize processing accuracy and manual matching speed.

03

Target Achievement

We deploy the right resources, organization, processes, tracking, and quality control to meet the expected target.

Enrichment Bricks

Modular enrichment layers — external IDs, credits, and lyrics — all pre-matched against Music Story IDs.

External 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…

Credits

  • Granular credit mapping — accurate attribution across recordings and albums for all contributor roles.
  • Contributor identification — linked to verified artist profiles.
  • Relationship mapping — band members linked to their solo profiles.

Lyrics

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.

Biographies

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

Artists Images

High-quality artist photos, properly licensed and formatted for seamless distribution across all major platforms.

Licensed photos · Album artwork · Platform-ready formats

Bespoke Delivery

Seamless interoperability with the formats your downstream systems already use —so enriched metadata flows straight into every DSP and partner.

Standards Interoperability

Native delivery into DDEX ERN, MEAD, CWR and DSP schemas, allowing enriched metadata to flow directly into every downstream system without reprocessing.

Custom Schema Mapping

We map our data model to your exact field structure and delivery format — CSV, XML, JSON, or direct database feeds.

Continuous Sync & Governance

Scheduled deltas and full refreshes keep your catalog current, with versioning and quality control across every update.

Adapted Support

End-to-end operational guidance from integration to live deployment.

End-to-End Project Guidance

Dedicated engagement leaders managing your deployment timeline — from initial planning through development to completion.

Dynamic Scalability for Workload Peaks

Rapidly mobilize global expert operational resources on-demand for historical catalog cleaning and volume spikes.

SLA Compliance & technical support

Direct engineering support for APIs, feeds, and workflows paired with ongoing editorial consulting on content coverage and legal validation.

Case Study

Structuring legacy catalogs for the streaming ecosystem

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

Outcome

  • Faster data ingestion workflows and improved catalog visibility for distributors and DSPs.
  • Clearer rights attribution and enhanced royalty collection.
  • Extended and accurate metadata across the entire 300K-track catalog.
  • Digital distribution pre-requisite: catalog fully structured and validated for seamless streaming rollout.

FAQ

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.

Talk to our team

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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