Music Reports adds AudioShake music detection to Cuetrak

Music Reports has integrated AudioShake’s music detection and identification system into Cuetrak, its cue sheet and analytics platform, to speed up reporting and improve timing accuracy. The update is meant to reduce manual work, capture more complete music usage data and help shrink unmatched royalties in the industry’s black box.

Why it matters: - Cue sheets are the data backbone for getting music rights paid correctly. - Faster and more accurate cue sheet creation can reduce missed or misidentified music usage. - More complete reporting can cut down on royalties that end up in the industry’s black box.

What happened: - Music Reports announced an integration of AudioShake’s Music Detection and Identification technology into Cuetrak®, its cue sheet and analytics platform. - The new workflow lets Cuetrak® users upload a media file and receive a cue sheet report. - The integration uses AudioShake’s Copyright Compliance System to improve timing and content accuracy.

The details: - AudioShake’s software isolates the music inside a full mix before identifying cues. - The system detects when music appears, identifies the cue and returns structured data such as track, timing and duration. - Cuetrak® ingests that data and stages it into a cue sheet document ready for review, distribution and reporting. - Music Reports said the system is built to handle dense or noisy content, including dialogue, sound effects, crowd noise and narration. - The workflow is designed to help with hard-to-clear cases such as a score under dialogue, a needle-drop under a play-by-play call or a cue in an unlabeled archival reel. - Music Reports said the integration can accelerate cue sheet creation by replacing manual identification with an automated first pass. - Music Reports said the integration can improve accuracy and completeness by catching cues manual review may miss. - Music Reports said the integration can reduce royalty leakage by feeding more complete usage data into reporting. - Music Reports said the system can scale across film, television, games, podcasts, fitness and other emerging media. - Music Reports said the workflow can also handle back-catalog and archival content that has relied on manual processes. - Existing Cuetrak® clients can enable the AudioShake-powered upload workflow within the platform. - New clients can get started at musicreports.com/Cuetrak or by contacting the Music Reports team at info@cuetrak.com.

Between the lines: - The integration points to growing pressure on rights systems as more content moves across more channels, including social, live streams, TV and podcasts. - The move also signals a shift from manual cue sheet prep toward automated music recognition as catalog volume and content complexity rise. - Music Reports framed the partnership as a way to make reporting more complete, which could help more publishers and rights holders get paid for usage that might otherwise go unmatched.

What's next: - Existing Cuetrak® clients can turn on the new workflow through Music Reports. - New customers can adopt Cuetrak® through Music Reports’ onboarding process. - Music Reports is positioning the integration as a broader scale play for future cue sheet demand across broadcast, digital and archival content.

The bottom line: - Music Reports is using AudioShake’s detection technology to automate one of the most error-prone parts of cue sheet reporting and push more accurate music usage data into royalty administration.