Releases
Upload it once. Two doors open
A release is a track, an album, a short or a film, uploaded once. The public can stream it and buy it. Professionals can license it at the price you set. Same file, same page, two entirely different customers.
The problem
Streaming pays nothing and licensing pays properly
The economics of a track have almost nothing to do with how many people hear it and almost everything to do with who hears it. A thousand streams is a coffee. One editorial licence is a month of rent.
So a release does both from one page. Listeners press play and, if they like it, buy the record. A music supervisor presses play and sees a price list, a rights-holder, and a licence they can buy without writing to anyone.
What you can put up
If it plays, it is a release
A single or an album
Masters up to lossless, in running order, with a sleeve and a few words about it. Point it at a listing on your shop and the page sells the download or the physical thing.
A short or a feature
A film with its poster and a synopsis, streamed from the same page, and sold as a file or on a drive through a listing beside it.
Licences on the same page
Sync, editorial, commercial and venue, each with one price you set. Bought from the release page and issued as a PDF.
Read moreStreamed, never handed over
Listeners get the stream, not the master. What plays is made from your upload, and every link to it runs out within fifteen minutes.
Up when you say
A release stays a draft until you publish it, and can come down again whenever you like. Licences already sold stay honoured.
Rights first
Before a release goes public you confirm that the rights are yours to sell. Once, and on the record.
The two doors
What a listener sees, and what a licensee sees
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A listener presses play
No account, no app, no shuffle mode invented by somebody else. The page plays, and there is a button that sells them the record. -
A listener becomes a patron
Your tiers are on your storefront, a click from the record, for the listener who wants more than one. -
A licensee reads a price list
Sync, editorial, commercial, venue — each with a stated price, a stated term and a stated territory. No form to fill in before they see a number.
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A licensee buys the licence
They pay at the counter and the licence arrives as a numbered PDF naming exactly what was granted. You are paid out, less our 8% and Stripe's fee.
Rights
You are the rights-holder, and nothing here changes that
A student film licensed a track for forty dollars and an advert licensed the same track for four thousand, eight months apart, from the same page, without me writing a single email.
Go deeper
Questions about releases
Does Phyrne take exclusivity?
What do listeners pay?
Can a band split the money?
What formats do you take?
Put a release up and set two prices
One for the person who wants to hear it, one for the person who wants to use it. Both live on the same page.