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Resource Library · Credits

Music Credits & Metadata

Credits are careers. If the databases don't know what you played on, wrote, or produced, neither does the industry — and neither do the royalty systems. Claim your work everywhere it lives.

The databases

MusicBrainzFree

The open encyclopedia of music metadata — community-built, machine-readable, and the backbone of countless apps.

DiscogsFree

The collector-built discography of physical and digital releases — decades deep, absurdly thorough.

JaxstaFree tier

Official credits sourced directly from labels and distributors — not crowd-sourced, so it's the verified record.

Muso.AIFree tier

Claim a verified profile and it gathers your credits from across platforms — the modern credits resume.

GeniusFree

Lyrics plus crowd-annotated credits — where listeners actually look songs up.

The Who WhatFree

Name an album and talk to it — a conversational guide inside your record collection, grounded in MusicBrainz data, with a free cross-device account. The fun side of metadata.

The plumbing — know these two acronyms

ISRC (US ISRC Agency)Free

The unique ID stamped on each RECORDING — your distributor usually assigns them free; understand what yours are and keep a list.

ISWC NetworkFree

The unique ID for each SONG (the composition itself) — assigned through your PRO when you register works.

The habit: every release, keep one file listing title, writers, splits, ISRC, and release date. Five minutes per song — and every database, distributor, and royalty form pulls from it forever.

This page is part of the No-Money Music Resource Library — free, working links for every corner of a music career, checked by hand.

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