Materia Collective review for Single ‑ Video & Music

March 4, 2020

Finally - how did we not hear about this earlier? Soundscan reporting is fantastic to have. Looking forward to this being built out into a more fully-featured app. Edit, March 2020: It's been two years, and the app still feels like rough like an unpolished beta. Issues: • Pain point: Track upload and metadata entry are painful: unable to upload more than 3 concurrent tracks, locked out from adding metadata for tracks during upload, unable to add track titles while 3 files are uploading. • Bug: Creating dozens of tracks (for larger albums) at once creates track number duplicates. • Bug: Album art randomly disappears in the dashboard. • Bug: Physical products not always found when trying to attach a digital release. Wishlist: • Bulk edit tools, cloning metadata between tracks to avoid extensive manual data entry that could be avoided • DDEX ERN support for automatically creating releases via existing music aggregator distribution flow • Allowing metadata to be edited after locking a release • More control over how Shopify products/collections are created, tagged, managed. • External product fulfillment, e.g., via codebanks • Whitelabeling / custom branding. • Custom mailservers. Email notifications/order redemption go to spam. • Integration with other smart link platforms (linkfire, Smarturl, etc.) • Data analytics/retargeting/marketing options • More extensive metadata: P-line/C-line support, publishing fields per track (PRO info, Publisher/Administrator, multiple ISWC support)