🗂️ How to Manage Catalog Metadata for Royalty Processing in Tone

To calculate royalties accurately, you need clean, complete catalog metadata — including both tracks and releases, and their relationships to one another. Tone makes this process clear and intuitive in our user-friendly royalty management platform. This guide walks through how to add and manage metadata in the Contracts & Catalog hub.

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Tone Tip! New to the Contracts & Catalog hub? Start with the Navigating the Contracts & Catalog Hub doc and the Contracts & Catalog Glossary to get familiar with fields and features.

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🔍 Where to Manage Catalog Metadata

1. Go to the Contracts & Catalog tab from the Tone homepage
2. You’ll land in the Catalog section
3. From here, manage two types of metadata:
   • Tracks
   • Releases
4. Link tracks ➡️ releases
5. Link tracks and releases ➡️ contracts (later step)

🎵 Track Metadata Management

Tracks are the foundational catalog unit — every release is made up of tracks.

🧾 Spreadsheet View

• Use this view to bulk enter metadata by copy/pasting from other tools

• You'll see required fields (e.g. ISRC, Track Artist) clearly flagged

• See the Track Status:

  When the status is In Use the Track is ready for your next royalties run.

📋 Details Panel