Fill every column of a Re:Sound music-use report
Re:Sound is Canada's neighbouring-rights society, the counterpart to the U.S. SoundExchange. Its tariffs spell out music-use reporting field by field, ISRC included, and 'where available' in the radio tariff means mandatory if the data is in your possession. Playout logs rarely have it.
Run your play log through Bulk Lookup: import the export from your automation software (or paste artist + title lines), resolve each one against a 90M-recording catalog, and download a file where every line carries its ISRC, album, and record label: the columns Re:Sound's own reporting templates ask for.
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, under tariffs approved by the Copyright Board. It is separate from SOCAN, which collects for the composition; a Canadian broadcaster typically reports to and pays both. Distribution is calculated track by track from the music logs users file.
The reporting obligations are concrete. Commercial radio files sequential, timestamped logs of every recording broadcast, every day of the year, and the tariff's per-entry field list includes the ISRC, recording and work titles, performers, record label, album, durations, catalogue number, and UPC, all 'where available', which the tariff defines as mandatory when it's in the station's possession or control. Webcasters under Tariff 8 report monthly on Re:Sound's Excel templates, where Title, Artist, Label/Maker, and Number of Plays are marked mandatory and ISRC sits at the top of the 'desirable' list. Either way, the ISRC is what ties a play to one exact recording so the right performers and label get paid.
The gap most reporters hit: automation software gives you artist, title, and a timestamp, not the ISRC, record label, album, catalogue number, or UPC that Re:Sound's field lists name. Those live in a catalog, not in your playout system, and that's the part Sonovault fills in.
No usable play log? Build one from the stream
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 Re:Sound music-use report is built from exactly that: which recording aired, identified by its ISRC, and how many times it played across the period.
Monitoring is billed per active station, separately from your API plan. Reading your own spin logs and airplay reports costs no API credits.
Re:Sound reporting at a glance
Checked against the certified tariffs (Canada Gazette) and Re:Sound's own reporting templates. Confirm current forms and deadlines with Re:Sound before you file.
Commercial radioSequential, timestamped logs of every recording broadcast, 365 days a year. Royalties and logs are due the 1st of each month, covering the month two prior. The field list includes ISRC, UPC, label, album, and durations, all mandatory where the data is in your possession.Webcasters (Tariff 8)Non-interactive and semi-interactive webcasters report monthly, due 45 days after month-end, on Re:Sound's Excel forms emailed to webcasting@resound.ca. Play counts per recording per month. No timestamps needed.Webcast template fieldsMandatory: Title, Artist, Label/Maker Name, Number of Plays. Desirable: ISRC, ISWC, album, UPC, catalogue number, running times. (Re:Sound's own T8M music-use template.)Webcast ratesCertified Tariff 8: $0.000208 per file per play (2018 rate), $100/yr minimum. A proposed 2025–2027 tariff before the Copyright Board would shorten the reporting deadline from 45 to 14 days.Non-commercial webcastersDo not file music-use reports; they fall under the separate non-commercial simulcast/webcast tariff with its own simpler form.FormatElectronic: Excel or another format agreed with Re:Sound, one field per data element, as both tariffs require.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 field lists name the ISRC in both the radio and webcast tariffs, backed by performer, recording title, record label, album, and UPC. Sonovault returns all of it.
Named in the radio tariff's per-entry field list (where 'available' means mandatory if you have it) and first among the desirable fields on the webcast template. It ties each reported play to one exact recording, which is what track-by-track distribution runs on.
Title, Artist, and Label/Maker are the webcast template's mandatory columns, and the radio tariff adds album, catalogue number, and UPC. Sonovault returns clean, canonical values for every one of them.
Common uses
Commercial radio music-use report
365-day sequential logs with the ISRC field filled. Resolve your play log once a month and export the identifiers the tariff's field list names.
Tariff 8 webcaster reports
Fill the mandatory Title / Artist / Label columns of the T8M template with canonical values, and the ISRC column on top, from an artist + title log.
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.
Recover missing ISRCs
Older or third-party recordings without codes on file, matched against a 90M-recording catalog so 'where available' actually is.
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 - tariffs & reporting forms · Canada Gazette - Commercial Radio Tariff · Canada Gazette - Re:Sound Tariff 8 · Re:Sound - distribution rules.