Comments on: Sound Exchange Reporting Requirements http://johntynan.com/archives/115 My Name is John Tynan and I am a poet. I live in Tempe, Arizona with my beautiful wife and muse. I have a hammock, a home theater, a python code book, a piano and a bicycle. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:48:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bryan Hance http://johntynan.com/archives/115#comment-5765 Bryan Hance Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:13:06 +0000 http://johntynan.com/archives/115#comment-5765 John, consider checking out an article I wrote here: http://radioactivity.fm/articles/soundexchange_reports_of_use.html ... which delves heavily into the subject. ATH calculation is a pretty tricky process, and for stations out there running their own streaming infrastructure it can get a little hairy, for about nine million reasons mentioned in the article. I also have a free ATH calculator for folks that want to run their own ATH numbers instead of farming it out, available at http://radioactivity.fm/tools/ Full disclosure: I'm doing the SE reporting for a bunch of college and community stations facing the same recordkeeping issues as the public stations, all under the radioactivity.fm banner. Same problem, slightly different market :) p.s. the integration/automation issues can also get ugly, because at the very least you need to capture artist name, title, album, label. There's a lot of automation out there that omits the 'label' field for some reason, and it's tripping up a lot of the DIY/homebrew outfits. John, consider checking out an article I wrote here: http://radioactivity.fm/articles/soundexchange_reports_of_use.html

… which delves heavily into the subject.

ATH calculation is a pretty tricky process, and for stations out there running their own streaming infrastructure it can get a little hairy, for about nine million reasons mentioned in the article.

I also have a free ATH calculator for folks that want to run their own ATH numbers instead of farming it out, available at http://radioactivity.fm/tools/

Full disclosure: I’m doing the SE reporting for a bunch of college and community stations facing the same recordkeeping issues as the public stations, all under the radioactivity.fm banner. Same problem, slightly different market :)

p.s. the integration/automation issues can also get ugly, because at the very least you need to capture artist name, title, album, label. There’s a lot of automation out there that omits the ‘label’ field for some reason, and it’s tripping up a lot of the DIY/homebrew outfits.

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