The Digital Publishing Standard for Audio Recordings- Stonebridge Mastering – The Studio Blog. Posted by Gebre Waddell on Sep 10th, 2009 | no comments Welcome to Stonebridge Mastering’s guide for digital publishing of audio recordings. This is the most complete online resource on this subject today. To ensure that it is comprehensive, it has been reviewed for by Sébastien Mamy of CISAC and Arlene DiBenedetto of ASCAP . 1. ISRC is an abbreviation for International Standard Recording Code. These codes are the primary way to track songs so that royalties may be paid Most radio stations simply will not play songs that do not have ISRCs. ISRCs are required for iTunes and other music stores ISRCs are a standard, so present day technologies and future technologies are designed with them in mind Ways to obtain the codes: If you are in the U.S.A., you can register to receive ISRC codes online: Registering for your own code with the RIAA through USIRC is $79 - CD Baby website: $39 to assign anywhere from 1 code to a full albums worth - If you’re in the UK, go to: 2. 3. 3. 4.
SoundScan website: Vinyl Pressing Plants. I have compiled a list of all the vinyl pressing plants across the globe that I know are still pressing vinyl.
If you know of any that aren’t listed here, please contact me and I shall add them to this list. It’s amazing how many pressing plants are still out there churning out vinyl. Please keep in mind that I do not know the quality of the pressings, their turnaround times or pricings. All of this information can be found on the pressing plants’ websites or by contacting them directly. I would suggest researching the companies if you are unsure to find recommendations by satisfied customers or the ones to avoid as I am not affiliated with any of these places and therefore cannot guarentee the quality of work.
ASIAToyokasei (Japan) AUSTRALIAAcoustic WeaponryImplant (Melbourne)The Vinyl Factory (Sydney)Zenith Records (Melbourne) CANADAAmtech (Montreal)Rip-V (Quebec) JAMAICALaserworks (Kingston)Tuff Gong (Kingston) MEXICORetro Activo Records SCANDINAVIATail Records (Sweden) Pirates Press - Independent Custom Manufacturing. Gaiman: SOPA and PIPA are on the wrong side of history. Author Neil Gaiman The twin anti-piracy threats that were being considered by Congress — the SOPA bill in the House and the PIPA legislation in the Senate — have been put aside due to the storm of controversy and criticism they sparked.
But the media and entertainment industries are unlikely to give up their battle so easily, author Neil Gaiman said in an interview this week, even though what they’re trying to do amounts to “trying to put genies back in bottles.” Gaiman, who recently signed an open letter protesting SOPA with over a dozen other prominent artists, says the content industries have to recognize the Internet has changed the media landscape just as fundamentally as Gutenberg’s printing press did.
Gaiman is probably best-known for his comics and graphic novels — including the Sandman series — as well as the novels American Gods and Coraline, and the screenplay for the film Beowulf. Although British-born, he lives in Minnesota with his wife, musician Amanda Palmer. Gorillaz give away their new album made on an iPad. Gorillaz, the cartoon-styled supergroup renowned for breaking new ground in the worlds of music and technology, have notched up another claim to fame.
The band that headlined this year's Glastonbury festival today released The Fall, an album that can be downloaded free and was largely produced using only an iPad. "I've never been someone who's embraced technology particularly," frontman Damon Albarn told a New Zealand TV station this month, shortly after announcing that Gorillaz would stop playing live in their current format. "I've always tried to keep true to my roots, which was just a four-track and a guitar, but I got given an iPad and I suddenly found myself in a position where I could make quite a sonically sophisticated record in my hotel room.
" Albarn, who led the Britpop revolution with Blur, has called The Fall a love letter to America. "I used to be very baffled by this place, and I guess I still am in some ways.