Cue sheets are essential for ensuring fair compensation reaches the rightful parties. Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC rely on accurate cue sheets to track music use and distribute royalties to composers, publishers, and lyricists. Without them, it would be nearly impossible to ensure everyone involved receives their fair share.

Additional benefits of cue sheets:

• Compliance: Accurate cue sheets help productions comply with copyright laws and avoid legal issues.
• Efficiency: Cue sheets streamline the reporting process to CMOs and PROs, saving time and resources.
• Rights holder information: Cue sheets provide valuable details about rights holders, which can be crucial for rights negotiation and licensing.

In essence, cue sheets are the documented single source of truth for ensuring music creators are recognized and compensated for their work in the media landscape.

Yes, Soundmouse takes the burden off you when it comes to reporting to CMOs and PROs (Performing Rights Organizations) around the world. Our service handles everything for you, ensuring compliance, correct formatting and timely royalty distribution to rights holders.

Absolutely! Soundmouse’s innovative Audio Recognition (AR) tool is a game-changer. You simply upload your media (video or audio), and our system intelligently analyzes it to identify music used. This creates a draft cue sheet, significantly reducing the manual effort required for traditional cue sheet creation.

The time saved with Soundmouse can be substantial. For a typical long-form production (around an hour), creating a cue sheet manually can take hours of meticulous work. Soundmouse automates this process, reducing it to minutes for review and finalization.
We’ve found that without Soundmouse, a typical cue sheet would take 3 hours. With Soundmouse, it takes 20 minutes.

Our pricing structure has two components:

• Setup Fee: This one-time fee covers the technical integration of Soundmouse with your existing workflow and onboarding your team.
• Monthly Service Fee: This ongoing fee covers the management of the platform, system upgrades and security, music content supply and storage, maintenance and support of the service. The exact cost depends on your specific needs, such as the volume of productions you handle, the number of channels you distribute through, the number of societies you need to report to and the number of users who will need access.

How does Soundmouse save me time and money?

Soundmouse offers several ways to save you both time and money:

• Reduced Labor Costs: Eliminates the need for manual cue sheet creation through AR automation.
• Minimized Legal Risks: Ensures cue sheet compliance before submission, reducing the chance of legal issues.
• Faster Rights Holder Identification: Saves time searching CMO databases for rights holder information, as Soundmouse verifies it automatically.
• Improved Communication & Efficiency: Provides clear visibility into the cue sheet creation process, minimizing meetings and communication overhead.
• Clear view of spend and usage: BI reports offer clear insights into who you submitted your cue sheets to, when they were submitted and an analysis of information within all your cue sheets.

Soundmouse integrates seamlessly with your existing partner ecosystem. Cue sheets can be automatically delivered to CMOs/PROs on a schedule you define. Sharing with rights holders is also automated for a smooth workflow.

Yes! Soundmouse empowers you with data through our Reports Manager. This user-friendly tool allows you to submit cue sheets to CMOs/PROs and run reports on various aspects of music usage, including rights holders and production status. You can even schedule reports to run automatically for ongoing insights.

The setup time for Soundmouse depends on your specific needs and workflow complexity. Our dedicated team works closely with you to understand your requirements and ensure a smooth and efficient integration process.

To get started quickly, we typically ask for a few things from you:

• Sample Cue Sheet: A sample cue sheet in your preferred format helps us understand your specific workflow requirements.
• User and Workspace Count: The number of users who will need access to Soundmouse and the number of workspaces you require.
  Rights Holder Status: Whether you function as a rights holder yourself can impact how Soundmouse is configured for your use.
• Platform Usage Details: How you plan to use the platform (e.g., cue sheet creation vs processing) helps us tailor the onboarding process.
• Original Music: If you have original music not yet publicly released, we can add it to the system for recognition during the AR process.

Absolutely! Soundmouse is versatile and handles any type of visual or audio media you work with, including podcasts, promos, advertisements, films, social media content, video games, and more.

Data security is a top priority at Soundmouse. You retain full ownership of your data, and we take extensive measures to ensure its security. Our servers are maintained in-house to prevent any leaks or unauthorized access.

The acquisition of Soundmouse by Orfium has brought several benefits to our customers:

Upon logging in, you’ll be taken to the Productions Manager page, the central hub for managing and reviewing cue sheets. This is where you can create new production headers, upload your media assets, and access existing cue sheets for editing or finalization.

Absolutely! Soundmouse offers the flexibility to leverage both AR and manual creation methods. If the AR tool doesn’t identify a specific cue, you can easily add it manually for a complete and accurate cue sheet.

Reporting to CMOs is streamlined within Soundmouse. The Reports Manager allows you to generate reports and schedule their automatic delivery to the relevant CMOs, saving you significant time and effort.

Soundmouse empowers you with robust search functionality. You can search cue sheets and music data using a wide range of relevant metadata fields. We can also configure access to specific databases like Music Brainz to further enhance your search capabilities (configuration available through the Settings page).

We understand the importance of seamless integration within your existing ecosystem. For a comprehensive list of supported integrations, please contact our sales team at hello@orfium.com.

Yes, we have a dedicated help desk staffed by knowledgeable representatives to answer your questions and guide you through any challenges you encounter. Hours of operation vary by territory. For specific details, please contact our support team hello@orfium.com.

Absolutely! Soundmouse prioritizes user experience. We provide comprehensive user guides for each function directly within the platform. Once logged in, access the guides through the Soundmouse Help section.