Types of usage

Here are the definitions of the different usages:

• Streaming: this allows you to control the availability of your releases on streaming stores.

• Download: this allows you to control the availability of your releases on downloading stores.

• Copyscan: this allows you to send audio fingerprints to all stores that use content ID (YouTube, Soundcloud, Facebook…) in order to claim user generated content on these stores. Once claimed, this content can be blocked or monetized.

• Radio: this allows you to claim the audio fingerprints on non-interactive streaming DSPs, or so called “Radio” DSPs (Pandora, Slacker, iHeartRadio…).

Managing Usages

It's possible to manage the different usages at the Product level and/or at Track Level.

It's then possible to send an album for Download or Streaming only for example by turning the Download or Streaming usage off:

Or let's say that you want to remove the Download usage for a specific track, you can simply turn off the Download usage on that specific track in the product's offer. Example: