The radio station has an obligation to the submission of the monthly information about the extra-musical of the ECAD – the Central Office of revenue Collection and Distribution. In this article, we bring you 4 important tips on how to ensure that the process is carried out in the correct way, and the simplest.
1 – Catalogue of the music in the playlists music
First of all, it’s important to be aware of the addition of a new audio file and InfoAudio, above all, on the type of event that is to be attributed to each list you’ve created, because it will determine which of the attributes, and the rules that will be applied to the events listed.
In particular, the InfoAudio there are 7 types of events, Spots, Commercials, Music Tracks, Jornalismos, Witnesses, and multi-Word expressions. Only the report of the ECAD, the system consists of the file that runs only the reproductions are drawn from the events of the musical.
In this way, to guarantee the loyalty of the information which will be sent to your ECAD all of the songs on the radio, they must be named on the lists of festivals.
In conclusion: in the case of events which are no songs are listed in the playlists of music, these reproductions will also be included in the report, it will invalidate it.
Important to note is that when you set the type of a list, such as the music you will not be able to change it to a type of music, and vice-versa.
2. Enhance the references are copyright to their songs
Now, you notice, for the registration of a song, a reference to an author, it is the ECAD requires that at least one of the reference to be included in the work is the artist, or composer.
The InfoAudio has a mechanism that will facilitate the inclusion of the singers and songwriters for the event. In this way, at the time the report is compiled, this information is entered in the execution, by completing the registration parent.
The maintenance of this information, it’s simple to do and any changes that are required in the name of the artist or by the composer, on a one-time event. From then on, the rest of the event that you have a record will also be updated.
It is worth noting that when you sign up to music in the InfoAudio it is also possible to request a change in the composition of authorship of a work is taken from the name of the audio file. In this case, please arrange for the collection in the form Description – this is a Performer / Composer, and a report in the format of the resource Autocatalogar in the Center of the Application.
3. Use it in the field, a Reason or a Justification for when you need to
In the field, Reason, or Rationale, it is a space made available by the ECAD-for the radio station to justify long periods of time without the play of the music program.
In the same way as in the InfoAudio is it possible to inform you of the reason for the setting of the parameters for the creation of a digital archive ECADTec on the Radio.
4. Please check the contents of the report before you send it
The radio stations that you will send its music programming to ECAD using the digital file ECADTec to the Radio you can find it hard to verify the information, as the content is generated in a variety of design integration between the two systems, and which, preferably, should not be opened.
To facilitate the validation of the content on the InfoAudio makes it possible to generate a preview of the contents of this month will be compiled into a file in the layout of Contents of the report of the ECAD.
For this reason, before you save the file, the template File is a Digital ECADTec to the Radio, please click on the ‘View’. Thus, all of the content that is included in the file will appear before the panel’s report.
And with that, the radio can either check for the conformity of the information, and to examine whether there is a musical line-up that recorded for the whole of the month of reference, and also to consider whether the information of the project are complete.
Please consider spending time on this-validation, and go through the whole report, as of the notification of the ECAD due to lack of data, it can end up taking a longer time to settle the shipment.
Bonus tip: Use our integration with the collection of Spotify, to help you refine your music collection
The InfoAudio have a mechanism for access to information to Spotify, which can help the user to supplement the record of the event.
To do this, just go to the Catalog screen in the Center of the App, locate it in the event that you want, and click on the button on Spotify. With this, you will be presented with the screen, integration, where you can search in which the works are in the collection that have that name, and find the right balance, to copy the information for your event.