Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- ACRCloud
- Site
- acrcloud.com
To get your music into ACRCloud, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
ACRCloud is an automatic content recognition company whose audio fingerprint database powers song identification, broadcast monitoring and copyright matching inside apps and platforms used by hundreds of millions of listeners. When your music is registered there, those systems can identify your recordings and credit them to you.
ACRCloud, a Singapore based company founded as Syntec TV, maintains one of the largest acoustic fingerprint databases in the industry, with more than 150 million tracks indexed and a radio monitoring network covering tens of thousands of stations. Its recognition technology is used by services including Deezer, Anghami, Musixmatch and device makers such as Xiaomi and Huawei. ACRCloud is infrastructure rather than a store: it does not stream music or pay royalties itself. Instead, registering your recordings means that wherever its technology runs, a play, an upload or a broadcast of your music resolves to your name, your ISRC and your release data instead of coming back as unknown. Those identifications feed the usage reports, credits and claims that platforms and rights holders act on.
The same four steps for every release, whichever stores you send it to.
Sign up and pick the plan that fits. Grow is one artist profile, Pro is three and adds editorial pitching.
Audio, artwork and the metadata that travels with them: titles, credits, release date and rights.
Select your stores and send the release to all of them in one go.
A person checks the release before it leaves. It typically appears on the platform within 24 hours to 7 days.
Updated September 2026
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
ACRCloud is an automatic content recognition service. It stores a compact acoustic fingerprint of each recording in a reference database, then matches audio it hears in apps, broadcasts and uploads against that database. A match links the audio back to the correct track, artist and identifiers such as ISRC and UPC, even when the audio is noisy or partial.
ACRCloud's own submission route is aimed at labels and distributors rather than individual artists, so the practical path is distribution. Deliver your release through Unchained Music and your recordings are registered with the fingerprint and metadata ACRCloud needs, with no separate application to manage.
No. ACRCloud identifies music; it does not run a store or a royalty pipeline. Its value is in the reports and matches it generates, which platforms, societies and rights holders use to credit and pay the right people. Your streaming and download royalties continue to arrive through your distributor as normal.
ACRCloud's recognition technology is used by streaming services such as Deezer and Anghami, lyrics services like Musixmatch, and consumer electronics brands including Xiaomi and Huawei. It also powers broadcast monitoring across a network of tens of thousands of radio stations worldwide.
Recognition databases decide whether a play of your music is attributed to you or to nobody. If your recordings are not registered, an identification request can come back empty or, worse, match someone else's claim. Registration protects your credits, supports usage reporting and makes downstream claims and royalties traceable to your release.
Set the release up in the app and it goes to this platform with the rest of them, delivered to spec and checked by a person first.
Upload the release yourself in the app, on the plan that fits, and send it to every store you want in one go.
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