ISRC codes for
GVL reporting

GVL is Germany's neighbouring-rights society. It matches broadcast reports to recordings by an identical ISRC (or by the combination of artist, title, and duration when the ISRC is missing), and its own guidance is blunt: the more data you provide, the more accurate the matching. Playout logs almost never carry the ISRC.

Run your play log through Bulk Lookup once: import the artist + title lines, match them against a 90M-recording catalog, and export a file where every line carries its ISRC, label, and album. Those are the strongest keys GVL's matching accepts, attached to the log your playout system already produces.

GVL administers the neighbouring rights of performing artists and producers of sound recordings, the statutory claims that arise when a commercially released recording is broadcast or publicly communicated in Germany. GEMA licenses the authors' rights in the underlying work, so a German broadcaster or webradio registers with both; the licences are separate, but the two societies share one joint reporting format.

Broadcasters report what they played as a Sendemeldung. For webradio, GVL's published webcasting tariff names the fields: label code and label, title, artist, duration played, date, simultaneous listeners, and the listeners' country. The ISRC isn't mandated by the tariff, but GVL matches usage to recordings by an identical ISRC first, falling back to artist + title + duration, and whatever can't be matched is published in GVL's annual lists of non-assignable broadcast reports for rightsholders to hunt down by hand. Clean identifiers keep your plays out of that pool.

Bulk Lookup assumes you already have a log. If your playout system exports nothing usable, or you need evidence of what actually aired rather than what the scheduler intended, Sonovault can build the log instead of enriching one.

Point us at your Icecast or Shoutcast stream URL and every recording is identified as it airs, into a timestamped spin log with the ISRC already attached. An airplay report over any date range then gives you per-track play counts alongside a row for each individual airing. A Sendemeldung is a per-broadcast listing of the recordings used, which is what a spin log already is, with the ISRC present from the start rather than matched in afterwards.