The E-Book
Metadata Done Right
Bad metadata is how your royalties get lost. Lock your credits, splits, and codes so every dollar your music earns actually finds its way back to you — the four IDs decoded, the checklist, and the templates.
$24
Instant download · 11 chapters · the pre-release checklist + copy-paste templates
Your money’s paperwork, done right the first time.
What’s Inside
The Paperwork That Pays You
Eleven chapters that turn "I uploaded it" into "it’s registered, matched, and paying."
1 · Why Metadata Is Your Money’s Paperwork
The invisible layer that decides who gets paid. Get it wrong and the streams happen while the money never finds its way back to you.
2 · The Four IDs, Decoded
ISRC, ISWC, UPC, IPI — what each one actually is, who hands it out, and which piece of your money it unlocks.
3 · ISRCs Done Right
Get your own ISRC prefix and stop borrowing your distributor’s — so every play stays tied to you, not to them.
4 · Credits Done Right
Every hand that touched the record, spelled the same way every time — so nobody’s contribution, or share, quietly goes missing.
5 · Splits & the Split Sheet
The one page that prevents 90% of music lawsuits: who owns what, agreed and signed, before it ever becomes a problem.
6 · Songwriter Shares vs. Master Shares
Two different pies. Know which one you’re cutting so you never give away money you didn’t mean to.
7 · The Pre-Release Metadata Checklist
Everything to lock before you hit “distribute” — the list you run on every release so nothing ever ships broken.
8 · DDEX in Plain English
The language the machines speak about your song, explained — so you know what the platforms are actually reading.
9 · Registering the Work — PRO, MLC, SoundExchange
Where your IDs need to be filed to actually collect — the offices that owe you money once your work is registered.
10 · Fixing Back-Catalog Metadata
Cleaning up records you already put out, so the songs already earning finally pay back the way they should.
11 · Your Metadata System
The templates so you never do this from scratch again — split sheet, credit sheet, and the release checklist, ready to reuse.
Who it’s for: Any independent artist or small label that’s ever wondered whether their royalties are actually finding them — and wants to know their metadata is clean before the next release.
The Bottom Line
Streams you can’t collect are just work you gave away. This is how you make sure every dollar finds you. The IDs, the credits, the splits, the checklist, and the templates — metadata done right, once, so it pays you for the life of the song.