Soundmouse by Orfium
Who are Soundmouse by Orfium?
Soundmouse by Orfium provides music reporting services to royalty collection societies and media companies ensuring that whenever and wherever music is played, its usage is tracked and shared, helping rightsholders to be accurately paid.
What services do they offer?
Soundmouse by Orfium for composers & publishers
Soundmouse by Orfium simplifies and automates the music cue sheet process, reducing manual input and saving time and money.
Using Music Recognition Technology (MRT), Soundmouse by Orfium monitors key television and radio broadcasts in the UK and across the world to report where Soundmouse members’ music has been used.
For PRS, Soundmouse by Orfium monitors and directly reports on:
- Performances across 125 domestic radio stations
- Music used on international TV and radio stations
- Music used in TV adverts in the UK
- Music used on a number of TV and radio stations in Cyprus
- Music used on a number of TV stations in the Bahamas
Soundmouse by Orfium additionally offers cue sheet services on behalf of broadcaster clients around the globe and monitors online music usage. The BBC has chosen to partner with them to supply their music management system, MusicBox. In collaboration with ICE, Soundmouse by Orfium also reports on music featured on YouTube.
Orfium for Music Publishers
Combining Orfium’s market-leading technology and expert copyright teams with Soundmouse’s global cue sheet network means that Orfium can deliver increased revenue and visibility for publishers. Detailed performance reports and earnings dashboards are provided to show the health and performance of the client's catalog. If you are a Publisher and wish to find out more about how Orfium could benefit you, reach out to hello@orfium.com
Why should I join Soundmouse by Orfium?
PRS have our own systems to try to match your music as best we can, however, to make sure we’re paying out your royalties as accurately as possible, we enlist the help of Soundmouse and their music recognition technology to fill in any gaps and enrich our distribution information.
In 2022, royalties from 32,644,908 music usages were paid to members as a result of the music recognition services provided by Orfium.
As a PRS member, you can join Soundmouse for free and upload your music to make sure that your repertoire is available to broadcasters and collecting societies for reporting purposes. This means there are more accurate distributions for the TV channels and radio stations monitored and your royalties will reflect this.
What territories do they cover?
Orfium works in a comprehensive set of territories around the world, including Europe, UK, USA, Australia, South Korea and Japan, and produces music reports for many of the world’s largest media companies and collection societies
If you know your music is used in Cyprus, you should make sure you join because when your music is played on TV or radio there, you’ll only get paid if you have a Soundmouse account and your works have been uploaded to it.
It’s important to note that several other societies around the world rely significantly on Soundmouse’s technology to identify music used on TV and radio, in the drive towards accuracy in reporting when your music is used around the world. These include:
- ASCAP (USA) use Soundmouse to identify music used in radio commercials, public service announcements, short form infomercials, movie trailers (not monitored by Numerator), TV commercials (not monitored by Numerator) and promos not on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, Univision, HBO, Cinemax or Showtime
- GEMA (Germany) uses Soundmouse to identify music used on TV commercials for selected channels
- IMRO (Ireland) uses Soundmouse to identify radio commercials for selected channels
- APRA/AMCOS (Australia & New Zealand) uses Soundmouse to identify music used on all TV and Radio commercials
- ICE uses Soudmouse by Orfium to report on the music used in millions of YouTube videos each year
- BMI uses Soundmouse by Orfium to report on the music used in long and short form Radio channels across the USA along with music used in YouTube Videos
We highly recommend you set up your Soundmouse by Orfium account and upload your audio files, otherwise you may not receive a payment for the usages above.
I have written music for production music libraries. Should I upload my tracks to Soundmouse by Orfium?
Most production music libraries will already have music accounts and should be uploading your data but it’s a good idea to check this with them. Any music you have created which is specifically commissioned for adverts, film and TV that sits outside your library work should be supplied to Soundmouse by Orfium directly.
How much does it cost?
Signing up to Soundmouse by Orfium is free.
How do I join Soundmouse by Orfium?
Please email helpdesk@soundmouse.com with the subject line: “Music manager account creation request for PRS for Music” and include your full name and CAE number in the body of the email.
What do I need to upload?
When you have received your account invite and logged in, you will need to upload your audio files. Each recording you upload should relate to a work registration. You can have multiple recordings or edits that relate to one registration e.g. a jingle package with multiple versions of the same track.
Please provide the following for each track:
Required Metadata
- Audio file name incl. file extension (unique identifier) in as high a quality as possible
- Track title (should be the same as when you registered the track with us)
- Composer and publisher name(s) including society affiliations
- Label name (if a commercial recording, then indicate record label here. If not, then insert name of data supplier as per library label name)
- Audio format: MP3 320kbps is suitable, but you can upload higher resolution files (WAV or AIF) if you like.
Recommended Metadata
- PRS for Music tunecode
- ISWC
- Composer / Publisher CAE/IPI Number
- Composer / Publisher Society Name
- (if applicable) Library label name (This acts like a master folder, housing all your tracks under one name and is not required for Commissioned Composers but for production libraries / commercial music suppliers where this can be the name of the company/catalogue)
I have a question, who can I ask?
Contact helpdesk@soundmouse.com or visit orfium.com/contact-us/
