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About your Media Library

The Media library located in the Artist dashboard of your Winamp account is the where you can upload and manage your audio files,  as well as add your music's  metadata. 

Audio File Formats

To guarantee optimal sound quality, especially if you intend to utilize monetization services, specific audio file requirements and limitations are enforced.

Winamp for Creators supports:

  • WAV, PMC, MP3, AAC, but we recommend FLAC files for best quality
  • Bit depth: 16 or 24
  • Sample rate: 44.1 or 48 kHz
  • Mono or stereo
  • Maximum size of a single file is 100 MB.

Any other media format will not be uploaded correctly.

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It's always a good practice to upload audio files with the best quality.

While we accept WAV, PCM, MP3 and AAC formats, we recommend uploading FLAC files for the best quality.

Uploading Audio Files

Start by clicking the Media tab from the navigation bar. To upload a media file, click on the Upload media button, then browse and select an audio file from your local storage.


If your files meet the upload requirements, a progress bar will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen, showing the status of your upload.


Once the upload is successfully completed, proceed to adding your track’s metadata.

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Don't underestimating adding the right metadata to your tracks before submitting them to Winamp's monetization services! It's an essential step that boosts your chance in getting your tracks approved more quickly.

Track Metadata

Adding your the right metadata for your media tracks is essential, as it might impact whether your track will be accepted for a specific monetization program or not.

To add your metadata, click on the three dots right next to your track and click the Edit button.

Below is an overview of all track metadata fields and their description.

Field

Description

Ownership Type

You can choose between:

  • It is my own Track
  • Remix of my own Track
  • Remix (I don't own it)
  • Cover (I don't own it)

You have to own the rights to the track to be able to submit it for one of our Monetization Programs. 

Spotify URL

If your tracks are already published to Spotify, you can add a link to them and we will automatically pull the available track metadata into our system. 

Track title

The title of your track. We recommend using our Beautify tool to ensure the title doesn't include non-standard capitalization, numerical or special characters. Your title should not contain any of the characters below as it might not be accepted by our Distribution partners.

  • Non-standard capitalizations.
  • Special characters (e.g., $, ¢, ∞, ¬, _, +, =, ≠, ´‚ `, *).
  • Numerical characters.
  • Abbreviations

Version

The version of your track:

  • Acoustic
  • Bonus
  • Deluxe Edition
  • Extended
  • Live
  • Medley
  • Original
  • Other
  • Radio Edit
  • Remastered
  • Sample 
  • Speech Recording

Genre & Subgenre

Selecting the right genre & subgenre is one of the most important things to do on when editing your track.

Choose the genre & subgenre from the dropdown menus on a track level. 

Vocal Performance

The performance type of your track allows you to indicate whether there is a Vocal Performance, and if so, you can choose a type:

  • Vocal - Male
  • Vocal - Female
  • Vocal - Other
  • Instrumental

Audio Language

If your track has a vocal performance, use this field to specify the language of the audio.

Content Rating

You can choose between:

  • Censored
  • Explicit
  • Non-explicit

If your track is Explicit or Censored, you will not be able to submit it for Distribution, Licensing or Fanzone.

License Type

You can choose between:

  • All rights reserved
    The phrase “Copyright All Rights Reserved” is a declaration commonly used to indicate that the creator or copyright owner of a work is reserving all rights granted by copyright law.

    It is notice to inform others that the content is protected and that any use, reproduction, distribution, or adaptation of the work without explicit permission from the copyright holder is prohibited.

  • Some rights reserved
    In this context a new copyright framework ‘Some rights reserved", was defined with the purpose of tracks being flexible, usable by the artists, authors, and inventors themselves, and consistent with copyright law. This level framework is also known as Creative Commons.

ISRC Number

An ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is an international identification system for sound recordings and music video recordings. Each track has their own ISRC number and if you don't have one, we can automatically provide one for you.

If you already distribute your tracks to the mainstream streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, etc) through a distributor ( Distrokid, CD Baby, TuneCore, Ditto, etc.), then you already have an ISRC code. 

To get your ISRC, simply visit the website of your distributor to discover what ISRC codes are assigned to your tracks and enter them in Winamp for Creators.

Credits

Use this section to add the collaborators of your track, including their role. 

Crediting your collaborators is especially important if you're looking to submit your track for out Copyright and Distribution service.​

             Artists

Normally auto-populated with the name of the artist under whose profile the track was uploaded.

            Songwriters

For each collaborator in this group, you can select a rolefrom the Role dropdown menu. Additionally, you can select the collaborator from the list of artists and collaborators associated with your account/label or add a new collaborator that is not part of your account yet.

You can add multiple collaborators with different roles, including:

  • Composer
  • Arranger
  • Autor/Lyrics

            Producers and engineers

For each collaborator in this group, you can select a rolefrom the Role dropdown menu. Additionally, you can select the collaborator from the list of artists and collaborators associated with your account/label or add a new collaborator that is not part of your account yet.

You can add multiple collaborators with different roles, including:

  • Producer
  • Co-Producer
  • Mastering Engineer
  • Recording Engineer
  • Assistant Engineer
  • Graphic Design
  • Mixing Engineer

          Musicians

For each collaborator in this group, you can select a roleand instrument from the Role dropdown menu. Additionally, you can select the collaborator from the list of artists and collaborators associated with your account/label or add a new collaborator that is not part of your account yet.

Artwork

Adding Artwork to your tracks helps capture the listener's attention, convey the theme or mood of the music, and brand or identity for the artist.

We recommend always adding artwork to your tracks, but this required if you're seeking to use our monetization programs. 

Artwork Requirements:

  • Ownership: You must own the rights to the images that you'd like to use as your artwork.
  • Quality of images: The cover art must not be any of the following: blurry, pixelated, mismatched, cut, misaligned, rotated, stretched, or have any other quality issues.
  • Dimensions and file format: The cover art must accomplish with all following requirements: 3000 x 3000 px, JPG, TIFF or PNG & Maximum size of 36 MB.
  • Pornography and violent content: The cover art can not include contents that may be racist, pornographic, or glorify or trivialize violence.


Copyright Scan

Every track that gets uploaded on Winamp for Creators will undergo a copyright scan, which entails comparing your track to a broader database of registered tracks.

If your track doesn't pass the copyright scan, your track will be flagged as as potential copyright infringement and receive the status "Copyright Infringement". As a result, your track will not be accepted in any of our monetization programs and you will be asked to delete the track.


To avoid receiving a “Copyright Infringement” status, ensure that you only upload music that you have created yourself and for which you possess the rights, or that you represent the rights holders of all the music you upload on Winamp for Creators.

Copies, covers or remixes are not allowed on Winamp for Creators.


Common Reasons for Failing the Copyright Scan

If your track has failed the copyright scan and received a "Copyright Infringement" status, here are some of the reasons why this may have happened.

  • You don't have rights to the track.
  • Your track is a cover or a remix of someone else's track.
  • Your track is a free sample registered by a different artist.
  • Your track is based on a classical piece of music.
  • Your track contains a watermark.
  • Your track is a royalty-free sample that was already registered by another artist.

If none of the above applies to your track, you can request to be contacted by our Support team by clicking the Copyright Infringement status and select Get contacted by Support button.

Our team will reach out and assist you.



Creating Collections

A group of tracks can be organized in a Collection in the Media tab.

To create a Collection, after you've uploaded your audio files, navigate to the Media tab and select the tracks you'd like to include in a collection.

After selecting the desired tracks, click on the small folder button as shown in the screenshot below, then click Create a new collection. A new screen will appear, prompting you to provide a name for the collection and upload a cover picture. 


Once the collection is created, it will appear in the Media library under the Collections tab.



From the Collections section of the Media tab, you can submit your collection for Distribution or add it to your Fanzone.

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Before you add your tracks to a Collection, we suggest that you finalize the metadata. 


Deleting a Track

To delete a track, navigate to the Media tab of your Winamp for Creators account. 
Click on the track you wish to delete. 
In the top right corner of the screen, click on the more icon and select Delete this audio. On the pop-up screen, confirm your choice.

Your top questions answered

  • Navigate to the Media tab.
  • Double-click on the track you wish to manage.
  • Scroll down to the Artwork section.
  • Double-click on the image you've already uploaded.
  • Select a new image from your local storage and wait until it's uploaded.
  • Save your settings.

If your track has already been released through Winamp Distribution or is part of a Collection, please contact us so we can help you change your artwork.

If your track has received a Copyright Infringement status, click on the "Copyright Infringement" status and select Contact Support.

You cannot modify the track metadata during the moderation process, as the information you provided is actively being used to assess your track's eligibility for the monetization service you submitted it to.


It is not possible to delete a track that has been submitted and is actively being used in any monetization services. In some cases, like for example Distribution, in order to delete a track, you first need to request a take down.

If your track is already being used for one of our monetization services, navigate to the knowledge base of the relevant monetization service to learn how to take down and delete your track.

If you are facing problems uploading your tracks, it is probably due to a technical issue or because a copyright check needs to be made.

You may encounter one of the three following error messages: 

  • Unsupported file type: 
    Be sure the track respects the formats accepted:
    • WAV and FLAC
    • 16 or 24 bit
    • 44,1 or 48 kHz
    • Mono or stereo
    • Max 480 MB

NOTE: AIFF, MP3 and M4A are not supported formats.

  • Track upload failed:
    The track couldn’t be uploaded successfully as a result of a potential internet connection issue. Try uploading the track again but first make sure to delete the track that failed to upload.

  • Track processing failed:
    The track couldn’t be processed successfully. 
    This error message means something happened when you tried to save your track in your library. Try uploading the track again but first make sure to delete the track that failed to upload.

If you're still experiencing issues uploading your track, please make sure to contact us.

To learn how to claim your artist profile on the major DSPs, click here