One system for everything about a piece of music.
Who wrote it, who recorded it, who owns the rights, what identifiers it carries and how it is distributed. emely. consolidates the metadata that the industry currently scatters across a dozen spreadsheets.
Repertoire
Works and recordings with every relationship intact: a work can carry many recordings, a recording belongs to one work, and it all stays consistent.
Rights & splits
Copyright and neighbouring rights tracked as the separate chains they are. Split sheets enforced to 100% with live totals.
Releases
Products and configurations, from an EP down to the CD, Vinyl and digital formats, each with its own UPC and catalog number.
Identity
People and their public profiles, with the identifiers that disambiguate them and route their royalties.
The model the industry actually uses.
Entities to Works to Recordings to Products to Configurations. Every link can be many-to-many in practice, and emely. is built to hold that without breaking.
Entities
The whoArtists, songwriters, labels, publishers, producers. One person can be several of these at once.
Works
ISWCThe composition itself: lyrics and melody. Owned by songwriters, administered by publishers.
Recordings
ISRCA captured performance of a work. Owned by performers and labels via the master right.
Products & Configurations
UPC · GRidAlbums, EPs, singles and videos, delivered as physical and digital formats.
Nothing is overwritten in silence.
Every value records who asserted it and when. Fields can be verified, disagreements surface as conflicts instead of clobbering each other, and there is an append-only trail behind the whole thing. That is how credits stay trustworthy as they move.
Identifiers, validated and never mangled.
Stored uppercase with dashes stripped, rendered for humans, format checked on the way in. emely. never autocorrects them into nonsense.
| Identifier | Applies to | Example |
|---|---|---|
| ISWC | Work (composition) | ISWCT-072.482.116-4 |
| ISRC | Recording | ISRCATV252400118 |
| IPI | Songwriter, Publisher | IPI00512874663 |
| IPN | Performer | IPN01185529 |
| ISNI | Any party | ISNI0000000121038477 |
| UPC | Release / Configuration | UPC9008798304417 |
| GRid | Digital release | GRidA1-2425G-ABC1234502-M |
| LC | Label | LCLC-01234 |
Speaks the industry's formats, both ways.
emely. does not invent new exchange formats. It reads and writes the ones the industry already runs on, so your data round-trips cleanly.
DDEX / ERN
Electronic Release Notification for announcing releases to DSPs. Import and export, round-tripped cleanly.
CWR
Common Works Registration for registering works with PROs and publishers.
CSV & spreadsheets
Because that is where a lot of catalog still lives. Bring it in, take it back out, no lock-in.