Upload Instructions

How do I upload my music?

There are 2 upload methods. The first involves signing up for a free trial with Disco, and the second involves editing metadata in Itunes and uploading through our upload link.

DISCO Instructions:

• Using Disco’s 1 month free trial, create an account.

• Once your account is created, click and drag your lossless audio files (wav, aif, flac) into the disco uploader on the right hand side.

• Enter all of the metadata into each track, including the writers IPI numbers in song’s “comments” section and song splits on the “writers” tab of each song.

• Add any album artwork

• Save the playlist

• Go to the top of the newly created playlist and click share.

• Enter our email into the Disco user box: info@musos.us

Manual Tag Upload Instructions:

• Create a folder on desktop

• Drag in wav files

• Import wavs into iTunes

• Convert wavs to AIFFs (see how to do that here)

• Fill out the metadata fields in iTunes with basic information:

Title -  Title and or Title (Instr) or Title (feat. Artist) [DJ Remix]

Artist - Artist name

Album

Genre (no more than 3)

Year (of release)

Composer (Composer 1 (50%) ASCAP, Composer 2 (50%) BMI, etc

BPM

ISRC

Comments (Your full name and email, composer’s IPI numbers)

Lyrics (extremely helpful when searching for themed creative briefs)

Add artwork

• Remove Wav files from folder on Desktop (they are no longer required)

• Drag AIFF files from iTunes into the folder on Desktop

• Add band press photos, music video files, track artwork file, bio document,

• Create writer split sheets with song title, all composer names, their % splits, PRO affiliation and IPI numbers, master splits or ownership

• Highlight all the files inside the folder and drag onto our DISCO upload page

• On the form, fill out the playlist name field “Artist - Album/Single/EP name”

• Click Send at the bottom of the page