From artist + title to a report-ready file
Re:Sound is Canada's neighbouring-rights society — the counterpart to the U.S. SoundExchange. Its music-use reports identify every recording that aired, and that works best when each line carries an ISRC. Most station play logs don't.
SonoVault's Bulk Lookup closes that gap. Paste a list of tracks with just the artist and title, resolve them against a catalog of 90M+ recordings, and download a file with Artist, Title, Album, Label, and ISRC for every track — ready to map onto your Re:Sound report.
Resolve your play log in the Bulk Lookup tool in your SonoVault dashboard. A free account includes 1,000 lookups a month — no credit card needed.
🇨🇦 What Re:Sound needs from your report
Re:Sound collects the “equitable remuneration” owed to performers and to the makers of sound recordings when their recordings are broadcast or publicly performed in Canada. It is the organization authorized under the Copyright Act to collect these neighbouring-rights royalties, and it is separate from SOCAN, which collects the songwriting (composition) royalties — so a broadcaster typically reports to both.
Re:Sound's rates are set by tariffs approved by the Copyright Board of Canada. Under the Commercial Radio tariff, stations file detailed electronic music-use reports with a separate field for each recording played — and those fields explicitly include the ISRC, alongside the recording title, performer(s), record label, and album. The ISRC is what ties a reported play to one exact recording so the right performers and label are paid; artist and title alone are ambiguous.
The gap most reporters hit: radio automation and playout exports usually log only artist, title, and a timestamp — rarely the ISRC, record label, album, or catalogue/UPC the Re:Sound tariff asks for. That's the gap this tool fills.
How it works
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Paste your artist + title list
Drop in a column of tracks — a station play log, a setlist, or a catalog export — one per line, up to 1,000. Or import a CSV and map the Artist and Title columns.
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Resolve to ISRC + label
Press Resolve. Each line is matched to a canonical recording and its ISRC, album, and record label — the fields a usage report relies on to identify a recording.
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Download the enriched file
Export a CSV with Artist, Title, Album, Label, and ISRC for every track, then map those columns to the format your society's report expects.
What SonoVault adds to each track
One row per track, enriched with the recording identifier and clean release data your report needs.
ArtistThe featured artist, cleaned to its canonical spelling.TitleThe recording's title, normalised against the catalog.AlbumThe release the recording appears on.LabelThe record label that released the recording.ISRCThe 12-character recording code, upper-cased — the reliable recording identifier.ISRC, plus clean metadata
Re:Sound's music-use report names the ISRC as a field for each recording, backed by the performer, recording title, record label, and album. SonoVault returns all of it.
One 12-character code that names the exact recording — the studio cut, the radio edit, the remaster all have their own. It is the cleanest, highest-match way to tie a reported play to the right recording.
Clean, canonical release data corroborates the match and stands in when an ISRC is unavailable. SonoVault returns all of it, normalised against a 90M-recording catalog.
Common uses
Commercial radio music-use report
The Commercial Radio tariff wants a field per recording — including the ISRC. Resolve your play log once and export the identifiers the report asks for.
Webcaster / streaming reporting
Non-interactive and semi-interactive webcasters report the recordings they stream. Turn an artist + title log into a file with ISRC, label, and album attached.
Clean up a messy playout log
Free-text artist and title strings from your automation system, resolved to canonical recordings with their ISRC and release data.
Fill missing ISRCs
Older or third-party recordings without ISRCs on file, matched against a 90M-recording catalog to recover the codes.
Reporting to another collecting society?
SonoVault supplies the ISRC and metadata for these reporting flows too.
Frequently asked questions
Enrich your report free
A free SonoVault account includes 1,000 lookups a month. Paste your artist + title list, resolve it to ISRC, album, and label, and export the file — no credit card, no code.
Not affiliated with Re:Sound. SonoVault is an independent music metadata service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Re:Sound Music Licensing Company (Ré:Sonne). We supply ISRC, label, and release data; you are responsible for your own membership, licences, and reporting, and for confirming Re:Sound's current requirements. Always verify data before you submit it. Official sources: Re:Sound — What We Do · Copyright Board of Canada — Re:Sound tariff.