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There's a good informative article for you to download, explaining UPC, ISRC, CD Text, and CDDB
Go to http://www.airshowmastering.com/codeinfo.html and click the red dot at the top that says (OPEN) - to download the article.
Intro from the article:
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UPC, ISRC, CD Text, CDDB: A lot of information on a music CD isn't music. Digital delivery and online CD sales are important to almost every artist, and they can't happen without some of these codes. Listeners use of all kinds of players to hear their music gives artists new opportunities to share information about their music, too. In this guide, we tell you what each code does, what it looks like, and where to get it. UPC, a numeric code, and ISRC, an alphanumeric code, support the conduct of the music business by tracking sales of CDs and individual tracks. CD Text and CDDB are two sources of text information that enrich the listening experience.
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Praise THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!
Thanks Derek for all the information. The ISRC and CDDB encoding is all new to me. I haven't gotten my cd's manufactured yet, but I've already done the mastering. However, I have my songs uploaded to my hard drive. Do you recommend any software I could purchase (or shareware) where I can ISRC code my music before I send it to a manufacturer? Please let me know. I'll be using 'cdbaby' for the majority of my online selling. Thanks. GOD BLESS.
-maCmoses
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on Monday May 30 2005 @ 02:08AM PDT [ reply | parent ] |
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Anyway, your mastering engineer should encode your tracks with all the codes you want. You're not supposed to even touch the master once the mastering engineer hands it to you, much less use your own software on it. Keep it in its case and just send it to the plant.
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on Monday May 30 2005 @ 02:12AM PDT [ reply | parent ] |
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Whatever you're talking about, after mastering you're supposed to have a CD ready to send to the plant, not a bunch of separate tracks.
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Great article! Thanks for the information.
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Thank you Derek for that excellent and informative link about UPC and other required coding information. Vital and imperative reading for us all.
All artists wishing to release a CD commercially absolutely need to know about this. I would add my voice to the mastering comments as well:
The recording studio insert ISRC codes during the mastering stages and it is not something that we the artists have to do. BUT - we do need to register with PPL or whatever the USA equivalent is because PPL issue the ISRC codes! The recording studio does not issue the codes and it is OUR responsibility to apply for these and to pass that information on to the studio we have chosen to master our product.
Andy Martin
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Yup, I know about what we do here in the UK. www.ppluk.com has info for UK based 'record labels'
The confusing bits are several terms mean the same thing. A mastering session in a studio can mean simply mastering each track to bring it up to commercial levels and eq'd to each other. a CD master however is the final product created to be replicated/duplicated 1000's of times. This CD needs all info on it including IRSC & CD Text.
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I got my cd mastered by discmaker I paid for a bar code already, you mean to tell me that I am missing a ISRC, UPC ?
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You might already have ISRC codes. Ask Disc Makers. But if not, we can assign you ISRC codes for free.
As for UPC : the barcode you have is a UPC barcode, so you already have that.
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THANKS FOR THE GOOD WORK YOU ARE DOING.
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Hi Derek,
Hope all is well. I have my IRSC numbers, but
when I update the form it takes me back to the
IRSC home page, and doesn’t seem to
recognize the numbers.
I appreciate your help,
Monica
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on Monday October 23 2006 @ 12:09AM PDT [ reply | parent ] |
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I am just waiting to see how things go with my Album.
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So if I am duplicating at home, how do I add these codes to my tracks? Please advise.
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This is a spoken word album with no songs.
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Hi
I have a question. I have recorded a single with a producer and I'm planning to release it for digital distribution via CD baby (only digital at this stage no physical CDs). the track was created on Protools but since it is just one track and planned for release as an mp3 I haven't gone as far as mastering yet. I just have a copy of the final track burned on a CD and I replciate at home if I need more CDs. do I need to do this and add in ISRC codes etc before I mail my CD to CD baby with a note saying "for digital distribution only"?
thanks
Don
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Don -
Everything intended for digital distribution needs an ISRC code, but we can assign them for you. You don't have to.
For further questions, please email cdbaby@cdbaby.com. This bulletin board you're posting on is just an old news announcement from May 2005.
- Derek
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I record at home into my laptop How do I get UPC and ISRC codes
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> I record at home into my laptop How do I get UPC and ISRC codes
From CD Baby! Just sign up your album here after you're doing recording it, and we can assign you UPC and ISRC codes.
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hey i am recording a album... do i have to get it mastered? i will be editing it myself.. do i have to get license if it is all my own songs? do you then assing the barcode and the irds thing? please reply to sev email. finally i am part of a group band. can we have a acount with all of names in it and cd eligaabl?
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Do ISRC codes differ from any numbers or codes supplied by BMI for instance?
Thanks,
Nelson
Synchro Nine Factor
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Yes, they are very different. BMI supplies its own codes. ISRCs are a different thing. Read the other links out there on the 'net for more info about what an ISRC is.
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How do I find out my ISRC codes? Our first record was previously up for download by someone else, but we are getting ready to take it over and put it up through CD Baby. Is there a place I can look them up? Thanks.
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Amazing quality of info. I thank you.
Yet -incredible as it is- techo-klutz like myself, don't find the way back into "editing CD info" for lovely CD Baby : (
Always love, light and laughter;
Leticia : )
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