{"id":74,"date":"2024-08-27T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2011-12-13T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T09:22:24","slug":"isrc-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/isrc-codes-74.html","title":{"rendered":"ISRC Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, you buy a new album and insert the CD to your computer. <strong>itunes<\/strong> opens the disc and automatically knows the album title, artist name and track names. How is this done?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-75\" title=\"Codes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/istock_000013692635xsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Codes\" width=\"347\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/istock_000013692635xsmall.jpg 347w, https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/istock_000013692635xsmall-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/istock_000013692635xsmall-300x299.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well  the explanation is a &#8216;International Standard Recording Code&#8217; or ISRC  code. The\u00a0IRSC\u00a0is a unique identification system for sound recordings  and music video recordings.\u00a0 Each ISRC code identifies a specific unique  recording or track which can be permanently encoded into a product as a  kind of digital fingerprint.<\/p>\n<p>Applications such as itunes read  the ISRC codes and reference them against online databases. This then  enables all registered information related to the album or songs to be  displayed.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an unsigned or independent artist that  is\u00a0selling music online, then you will already be using an ISRC code,  even if you are unaware of it.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason for ISRC is not  just so itunes will display your song information. As well as accurate  airplay data identification, ISRC is used by online music download  stores for sale tracking. Every time a song is played on radio or TV the  ISRC code can be automatically read and logged to a computer system to  help with accurate airplay royalties be paid back to the artist. So  whether your music is being played in Cardiff, Tokyo, or New York, it  will be instantly recognised, all thanks to an ISRC code.<\/p>\n<p>You  can get ISRC codes when you register your tracks with an ISRC agency. In  the UK this is usually carried out by PPL (phonographic performance  limited) <a href=\"www.ppluk.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.ppluk.com<\/a>. A set of ISRC codes are issued and details added  to an on-line database. The ISRC codes can then be added to your master  at the PMCD pre mastering stage. During\u00a0CD Replication\u00a0manufacture  these codes are copied to all your replicated CDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, you buy a new album and insert the CD to your computer. itunes opens the disc and automatically knows the album title, artist name and track names. How is this done? Well the explanation is a &#8216;International Standard Recording Code&#8217; or ISRC code. The\u00a0IRSC\u00a0is a unique identification system for sound recordings and music video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.replicationcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}