From artist + title to a report-ready file
Sena is the Dutch neighbouring-rights society. It matches the playlists it receives against registered repertoire, and a line matches automatically only when its metadata — including the ISRC — lines up. Most station play logs don't carry it.
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 line up with Sena's repertoire.
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 Sena needs from your report
Sena collects the equitable remuneration owed to performing musicians and producers of sound recordings when recorded music is broadcast or publicly performed in the Netherlands, and splits it 50/50 between the performer and the producer. It's the recording side; Buma/Stemra handles the composition and mechanical rights — a single broadcast generates a claim to both.
Sena matches the playlists broadcasters supply against registered repertoire, and how fast a line is processed depends on whether its metadata matches one-to-one. Sena uses artist, title, version, ISRC, album, and label to make that match, and describes the ISRC as a “digital fingerprint” that makes collection and distribution easier. When those fields line up automatically, the line can be paid in the next cycle; when they don't, it falls to slower manual matching.
The gap most reporters hit: radio automation and playout exports usually log only artist, title, and a timestamp — often free-text and inconsistently spelled — not the ISRC, version, album, or label Sena needs for a one-to-one match. 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
Sena matches playlist lines on artist, title, version, ISRC, album, and label. SonoVault returns the recording identifier and clean release data, so your lines line up with registered repertoire.
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
Radio & TV playlist reporting
Sena matches the playlists you supply against registered repertoire. Resolve your log once so each line carries the ISRC, version, album, and label it matches on.
Webcaster / internet radio
Turn an artist + title log from your automation system into a file with ISRC, album, and label attached, ready to align with Sena's repertoire.
Clean up a messy playout log
Free-text artist and title strings, resolved to canonical recordings with their ISRC and release data — fewer lines falling to manual matching.
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 Sena. SonoVault is an independent music metadata service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Stichting ter Exploitatie van Naburige Rechten (Sena). We supply ISRC, label, and release data; you are responsible for your own membership, licences, and reporting, and for confirming Sena's current requirements. Always verify data before you submit it. Official sources: Sena — What does Sena do · Sena — ISRC.