Your catalog, resolved, from any source that ever disagreed.
Arcke connects the records behind your music without losing where anything came from or how it changed. The Preview starts with the music you have already released.
One song. Ten stages. No one place has all of it.
From the first voice memo or the first beat to the statements that arrive months after release, your work passes through sessions, approvals, splits, credits, platforms, and people. Each stage adds another piece to the record. No single system connects it all, let alone shows how it fits together.
- 01IdeaIt starts with a melody, a rhythm, a chorus. Voice memos, sketches, and demos capture the first versions of something new.
- 02Pre-productionDemos multiply as the arrangement develops, collaborators join, and the recording is planned.
- 03ProductionTakes and versions, tracks and comps, track sheets and session files multiply as the song is built and rebuilt.
- 04Post-productionEdits, pre-mixes, mixes, and masters move through revision until the final masters are approved. Stems, mixes, and alternate versions are archived.
- 05Rights & splitsContributions become credits and percentages on a split sheet, then agreements and registrations.
- 06CataloguingTrack and release titles, lyrics, names, roles, credits, metadata, identifiers, and codes are recorded across catalogs, registrations, and platforms.
- 07PackagingCover art, photography, campaign imagery, copy, and credits move through revisions, then become files for every format and platform.
- 08Release & distributionMasters, artwork, and metadata are prepared for platforms with different fields, specifications, and deadlines.
- 09PromotionPromotion becomes its own production: pitches, posts, clips, media assets, interviews, live shows, and tour logistics.
- 10Post-releaseStatements, royalties, and audience signals arrive from different places, on different timelines.
The bars illustrate how the balance of creative and administrative work shifts across the lifecycle.
You know there’s more to a release than the recording.
The song, the people who contributed, the agreements about who owns what. Those connections belong in your catalog, too.
The recording is connected to the composition.
Separately identified, but disconnected.
The song and the recording are matched.
The credits are connected to the people.
The credit and performer weren’t connected.
Donald Mayer confirmed his vocal performance, credited as Don Mayer.
An agreement is recorded. The earlier claims remain.
125% claimed. Only 100% exists.
The rights holders recorded an agreement about ownership of this recording.
Fictional examples. Names are invented.
Independent music needs more than another place for its data. It needs a connected record that can carry the truth into the future.
The truth about your music requires three things
All three matter, from the first melody to the latest royalty statement.
- Who made what
- Every contribution connected to the person behind it, from the first studio session to the final master.
- Who gets paid
- Every right and share connected to the people and organizations entitled to it, even as ownership changes.
- Who said yes
- Proof of who agreed to what, and when.
Today, these answers live apart. Arcke is being built to keep them connected across the life of your music.
Your music. Your catalog. Nothing hidden from you.
If Arcke can see it, so can you.
The decisions are yours
You decide which records to trust and who you invite to confirm their part.
Nothing is overwritten
You can see what changed, who changed it, and what came before.
Nothing is buried
Missing or conflicting credits, rights, metadata, and identifiers stay visible until they are resolved.
You can take it with you
Export your catalog whenever you want. When it meets Arcke's standard, we'll tell you it's ready to go.
These commitments shape the product and the company behind it.
Arcke is being built now, and we welcome you to be among the first.
The Preview will open to a small group of independent artists and record labels before opening more widely. Join the waitlist to tell us about your catalog and request access.