Enrich the relevé before it leaves your hands
In France you never file with SCPP or SPPF directly: broadcasters declare annually to SPRE, the rémunération équitable collector, and attach electronic relevés de diffusion. Those playlists flow onward to SCPP and SPPF, who distribute the producer share by matching them against repertoire declared with ISRCs and audio fingerprints.
Sonovault enriches the relevé before it goes in. Resolve each artist + title line against a 90M-recording catalog and export a playlist where every line carries the ISRC and label the producer societies' matching keys on, alongside the title and broadcast duration SPRE's declaration requires.
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 SCPP / SPPF needs from your report
SCPP and SPPF are France's neighbouring-rights societies for producers of sound recordings (SCPP represents the majors and many independents, SPPF the independents). Radios and webradios don't pay them directly: SPRE collects the rémunération équitable owed under Article L214-1, splits it 50/50 between performers (ADAMI, SPEDIDAM) and producers, and the producer half flows to SCPP and SPPF. SACEM licenses the composition side separately: two independent obligations for every station.
The annual SPRE declaration carries your revenue base, the share of your airtime that is recorded music, supporting accounts and, in electronic form only, your relevés de diffusion: the titles broadcast during the year and the broadcast duration of each. SCPP, France's national ISRC agency since 1989, distributes the producer share in proportion to broadcast duration, matching broadcaster relevés and BMAT fingerprint recognitions against repertoire declared with ISRCs. The cleaner and more identifiable each line, the more reliably a spin reaches the right producer.
The gap most reporters hit: SPRE wants the relevés in electronic form, but a playout export identifies each spin loosely: free-text artist and title, no ISRC, no producer or label. Fingerprinting backfills some of it after the fact; clean, ISRC-bearing lines don't need backfilling.
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 relevé des diffusions is a per-play listing of the recordings broadcast, so monitoring hands you the relevé itself rather than something you reconstruct from a scheduler export.
Monitoring is billed per active station, separately from your API plan. Reading your own spin logs and airplay reports costs no API credits.
The French declaration at a glance
Checked against SPRE's published forms and tariff pages and SCPP's distribution rules. Confirm current requirements with SPRE before you declare.
Who you declare toRadios and webradios declare directly to SPRE via portail.spre.fr. SCPP and SPPF receive the playlists via SPRE and BMAT; you never file with them. SACEM authorization for compositions is separate and additional.What's in itRevenue base (assiette), the annual share of airtime that is recorded music, supporting accounting documents, and electronic relevés de diffusion: the titles broadcast and the broadcast duration of each.Frequency & deadlineAnnual, due within 6 months of fiscal-year close, with quarterly provisional payments along the way. Filing on time with justificatifs earns a 10% abatement.Webradio tariffRevenue × 12% × music-usage rate (decision of 7 Nov 2019, in force since 1 Dec 2019); optional flat rate when revenue ≤ €17,000; minimum €349.32 HT (2026, indexed).Commercial radio tariffProgressive 4–7% brackets on revenue × usage rate, with news-programming abatements up to 26% and a minimum around €342 HT.RecognitionSPRE works with BMAT for broadcast recognition; SCPP members declare repertoire with ISRC plus an audio fingerprint. Distribution to producers is proportional to broadcast duration.Contactsradio@spre.fr for radio, webradio@spre.fr for webradio.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
SCPP's repertoire is declared and searchable by ISRC, and the ISRC is what makes broadcast relevés processable at scale. Sonovault returns the ISRC and clean release data per line.
SCPP, France's national ISRC agency since 1989, says the ISRC improves a recording's traceability and facilitates the processing of radio and TV broadcast reports. A relevé line with the right ISRC identifies exactly one recording in producer repertoire.
The relevé itself must carry each title and its broadcast duration; artist and label corroborate the match and separate one version from another. Sonovault returns canonical values for all of them.
Common uses
Annual SPRE declaration
The declaration wants electronic relevés alongside your revenue figures. Resolve the year's log once and export a playlist with ISRC and label per line.
Webradio declarations
Webradios fall under the licence légale too (since 2016). Turn your automation export into an ISRC-bearing relevé before filing via portail.spre.fr.
Producer repertoire declarations
SCPP and SPPF members declare phonograms with ISRC and metadata. Pull the ISRCs for a whole catalog in one pass before declaring.
Make fingerprint-missed spins claimable
BMAT recognition can't catch everything. ISRC-resolved relevé lines identify the spins fingerprinting missed, so the duration still counts toward the right producer.
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 SCPP / SPPF. Sonovault is an independent music metadata service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to SCPP and SPPF (France's neighbouring-rights societies for producers). We supply ISRC, label, and release data; you are responsible for your own membership, licences, and reporting, and for confirming SCPP / SPPF's current requirements. Always verify data before you submit it. Official sources: SPRE - how it works · SPRE - webradios · SPRE - annual radio declaration form · SCPP - national ISRC agency.