• Licensees reporting: 302
• Content channels covered: 473
• Total Aggregate Tuning Hours (ATH)* devoted to music streaming reported: 18.5 million

One ATH = One hour of content streamed to one listener.

This means of course we’re able to start accepting Q1 2013, logs and playlists.

You should be able to select that quarter in Composer when ever you log in next.

The Deadline for Q113 submissions is April 5^th 2013.

Thanks!

Dan Gurin is no longer with NPR and we are working to rebuild a team for supporting SoundExchange. For any and all SoundExchange questions, updates, submissions, or concerns; please email SoundExchange@npr.org. Or you can submit a support ticket and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Going forward we ask that this email or ticket system be the primary point of contact for all things SoundExchange.

We will be migrating the bulk of this content into the NPR Digital Services web site and will be shutting down this blog by summer 2013.

(Un)fortunately, just because I’m leaving doesn’t mean the SoundExchange party will end! Your reporting will continue to work just like it has been, at least through the end of 2015. The only difference will be you’ll now have a different SoundExchange contact person here at Digital Services.

Allow to me introduce him – Dan Gurin. Dan’s been at Digital Services for the last two years and before that spent time at several public radio stations. He’s smart, he’s helpful and he’s an all around good guy. Some of you may already have worked with him on other DS products, such as Core Publisher. Dan will take excellent care of you.

You can reach Dan with SoundExchange questions or submissions by emailing him at soundexchange@npr.org or give DS a jingle at 617 622 5400.

Dan is ready to accept and review your Q2 SoundExchange data which – I’m sure you’ll recall – is due to us by Friday, July 6th.

Getting the chance to work with so many fine stations and so many great people these past few years has truly been an honor. Thanks again and best of luck to you all…:}

My purpose in attending was to lead a session on the changes to SoundExchange reporting that were recently announced. Thanks to those who attended. Here are the session slides that were presented, in case you missed it or if you’d like to frame one or more for your den.

Oh yeah, and don’t forget, the deadline to get us your Q2 SoundExchange reporting data is quickly approaching – Friday, July 6, 2012. If you haven’t already, get your data to us!

An important announcement has just been posted regarding the future of SoundExchange reporting through NPR Digital Services. Please be sure to review it here.

Also, for those currently attending the NFCB conference in Houston, be sure to come to the session I’ll be leading on Friday morning (June 15th) at 8:00am in the Regency room (2nd floor) to discuss all of this.

And, if you’re in Houston, be sure to keep hydrated; feels like being on the surface of the sun here.

So, if you’re going, don’t stay out too late on Thursday night drinking Texas beer or eating BBQ or roping cattle or whatever. We want you there bright eyed and bushy tailed!

For you non-NFCB members, or those not attending, we’ll be sharing these changes with you as well, via the usual channels (email, blog post, social, smoke signals, etc.) in June, so keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Exciting, right?

Of course, the fact that we’re now accepting data for Q2 means that we finished and submitted the Q1 2012 reports to SoundExchange – which we did last week. It was another great showing by you fine folks. Here are the raw numbers:

• Licensees reporting: 319
• Content channels covered: 517
• Total Aggregate Tuning Hours (ATH)* devoted to music streaming reported: 17.3 million (13.9 million when adjusted to a monthly average)
• Total sound recordings reported: 868k (and then some)
• Total performances reported**: 223 million (give or take)

* One ATH = One hour of content streamed to one listener

** One performance = The streaming of one recording to one listener

That right there is some serious amount of reporting data.

Thanks, as always, to everyone who made a serious effort to meet their reporting obligations. Remember, you’re not doing it for our benefit; you’re doing it because it’s your legal responsibility. If you stream music, you must report or risk being in violation of federal copyright laws.

But you already knew that – right? Of course you did.

Anyway, keep up the good work and get that Q2 data to us ASAP.

This means that these data are now available for the following:

1. Display in Composer Pro playlists
2. Use in quarterly SoundExchange reports

All without you having to do (much of) anything. Good news for a Monday, yes? Yes.

Your one task, if your station streams the show, will be to make sure that your schedule grid in Composer Basic/Pro accurately reflects when you offered it. Also, make sure when adding it to your grid that you select PubMusic PubJazz1 from the list of syndicated programs on the Edit Program page.

If the show was already in your grid, you’ll need to go back in and select it from the list of syndicated programs so that we’ll know to integrate those playlists into your quarterly SoundExchange reports.

The PubMedia team also plans on uploading playlists for their other services (PubJazz 2, Blues, etc.) in the near future. So keep your eyes peeled for announcements from that we’re receiving those data as well.

Finally, if you’re not sure whether a syndicated program you stream is uploading playlists to NPR Digital Services – or if you’re not sure what to do if you know a program doesn’t – then take a look at this post which reviews the basics.