Audio Content Guidelines

The presentation of the following guidelines is to be fully transparent with you regarding our editorial policy, as our main goal is to serve you the best we can by maximizing your revenues.

These guidelines detail all the checks and corrections that are operated by our Content Management teams to deliver releases that are compliant with stores' guidelines.

To learn more about the path your release goes through in our system, see the Release Life-Cycle.

The main stores have very strict and precise guidelines on what kind of content they accept and how it should be presented. Not abiding by these rules may result in reduced visibility of your content, or even a refusal to host it.

To avoid this, and to help you optimize your revenues, we have put together a synthesis of these rules to apply when you create your release.

These guidelines are organized in the following articles. Otherwise, the document attached compiles all the Guidelines. 

1. Audio rules
2. Cover Artwork rules
3. Explicit content
4. Metadata consistency
5. Artist’s Name Formatting and Spelling
6. Artist’s fields content
7. Artist roles
8. Artist ID
9. Title fields Formatting
10. Version fields
11. Singles, EPs, One-Track Products
12. Re-recorded & remastered version
13. Soundtrack version information
14. DJ Mixes & remix version information
15. Live recording version information
16. Karaoke, Tribute, Japanese Orgel, Parody, and Cover version information
17. Titles for specific types of tracks
18. Genre accuracy
19. Genre specificities