Music Reports adds AudioShake music detection to Cuetrak

Music Reports has integrated AudioShake’s music detection and identification technology into Cuetrak, its cue sheet platform, to speed up reporting and improve accuracy for film, TV, podcasts and other media. The move is aimed at reducing manual work and helping more royalties make it to rights holders instead of the industry’s black box.

Why it matters: - Cue sheets determine when music appears in a production, what the music is, and how long it plays. - More accurate cue sheets can reduce unmatched royalties that end up in the industry’s black box. - The integration is designed to cut manual review time for broadcasters, studios and other content owners handling more media at higher volume.

What happened: - Music Reports integrated AudioShake’s Music Detection and Identification technology into Cuetrak®, its cue sheet and analytics platform. - Users can upload a media file and receive a cue sheet report built from AudioShake’s isolated-music detection workflow. - The announcement was made Sept. 8, 2026, in Los Angeles.

The details: - AudioShake’s software separates music from dialogue, sound effects, crowd noise and narration before identifying cues. - The system returns structured data including track, timing and duration. - Cuetrak® ingests that data and stages it into a cue sheet document for distribution and reporting. - Music Reports said the workflow can make cue sheets ready for review in a fraction of the time required to build them from scratch. - The companies said the system is designed to handle dense, noisy or unlabeled content, including broadcast material, archival reels and scenes where music is buried under other audio. - Music Reports said the technology can scale across film, television, games, podcasts, fitness content and other emerging media. - Existing Cuetrak® clients can enable the AudioShake-powered upload workflow through their Music Reports contact. - New clients can get started at musicreports.com/Cuetrak or by contacting info@cuetrak.com. - Music Reports also pointed to its LinkedIn page at Music Reports on LinkedIn.

Between the lines: - The integration targets a known weak point in royalty administration: identifying every music cue accurately when the audio is mixed with other sounds. - Automation at the front end of the workflow could help reduce missed cues, which is where reporting errors often start. - The push fits a broader shift toward faster music rights reporting across social video, live streams, TV and podcasts.

What’s next: - Existing Cuetrak® customers can turn on the new workflow now. - Music Reports wants new users to adopt Cuetrak® as a faster path to cue sheet creation and reporting. - The companies are positioning the integration as a way to improve payment accuracy as content volumes keep rising.