Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- Audible Magic
- Site
- audiblemagic.com
To get your music into Audible Magic, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
Audible Magic runs the content identification systems that platforms such as SoundCloud, Twitch and Dailymotion check at the moment a user uploads content. Registering your recordings there means those platforms can recognize your music and apply your policy to it.
Audible Magic, founded in 1999 in Los Gatos, California, operates a Global Content Registry that user generated content platforms query at the upload point. When someone uploads a video or stream that contains a registered recording, the platform can block it, allow it or monetize it according to the rights holder's policy, and the matching is robust to pitch shifts, tempo changes and background noise. Audible Magic itself is not a store and does not pay royalties; it is the identification layer that makes enforcement and monetization possible. Direct registration is aimed at rights holders with an established commercial catalog, so for most independent artists the realistic route into the registry is through a distributor that delivers there as part of a release.
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.
Audible Magic provides automatic content recognition and rights administration to user generated content platforms. Its fingerprint registry lets services such as SoundCloud, Twitch and Dailymotion identify recorded music inside uploads and apply the rights holder's chosen policy, which can be to block, allow or monetize the matched content.
Direct registration is designed for rights holders with a commercially released catalog on major platforms, so most independent artists arrive through distribution instead. Deliver your release through Unchained Music and your recordings are registered in Audible Magic's content registry as part of the delivery, with your ownership data attached.
Platforms that use Audible Magic match uploads against the registry automatically, and the system cannot tell by itself that the uploader is also the artist. If your own upload is muted or claimed, use the platform's dispute or allowlisting process to confirm you are the rights holder. The match itself is a sign the registration is working.
No. Audible Magic identifies content and administers policies; any money generated by a monetize policy is paid out by the platform where the use happened, through the usual rights holder channels. Your streaming and download royalties continue to flow through your distributor.
Audible Magic's technology has been used by SoundCloud, Twitch and Dailymotion among other user generated content services. Platforms license the same registry, so one registration protects your recordings across every service that queries it.
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.
Start DIYFor multi-release plans and label rosters, scoped with the services team before anything starts.
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