Composer Basic
We’re pleased to announce that Composer Basic is now live for stations who are not Composer Pro clients to manage their SoundExchange reporting data. It’s been launched just in time for stations to use to deliver your Q4 reporting data (from within October 1 - December 31, 2009) which are due to us by Friday, January 15, 2010.
Composer Basic is the tool you will now use to manage your station’s contact and stream information with us for SoundExchange reporting, upload playlist and/or streaming log files, specify your chosen quarterly reporting weeks and access completed reports that we have generated and submitted to SoundExchange on your behalf. Composer Basic will also allow you to specify your weekly schedules to let us know what syndicated programming you stream, so that we can collect those playlists and integrate them into your SoundExchange reports. Composer Pro clients, rest assured, you already have access to these features.
If your station has registered with Public Interactive for SoundExchange reporting (and you’re not a Composer Pro client) then your designated contacts should have already received an email from us with login information and basic instructions for getting started with Composer Basic. Please take a few minutes to login, review the data that we have on hand for you and get familiar with the tool.
If your station is not a Composer Pro client and did not receive a Composer Basic login, please contact us and we’ll get that to you.
- Complete Composer Basic documentation: http://www.publicinteractive.com/media/pdfs/ComposerBasic_Userguide.pdf
- Also, a Composer Basic Quick Start Guide: http://blog.publicinteractive.com/soundexchange/composer-basic-quick-start-guide
Here are some important points to know about using Composer Basic:
1. To use Composer Basic your station will first need to agree to the Terms of Service that Public Interactive and NPR have developed, which grants Public Interactive permission to collect your data and submit reports to SoundExchange on your behalf, and also gives you access to Composer Basic. You will not be able to access Composer Basic (and Public Interactive will not be able to collect your data and submit reports to SoundExchange on your behalf) until you do so.
2. Stations (and their vendors such as Spinitron and StreamGuys) that were previously given FTP accounts to transfer data files to us can continue to upload data files that way if they like. However, stations will still be required to login to Composer Basic to review whether data files have been uploaded and accepted, to choose their reporting weeks each quarter and to update their guide data for reporting weeks.
3. Stations should take time to review any program guide data we may have for your streams and make any necessary corrections. However, be aware that for Q4 2009 reports the only syndicated show for which we will integrate playlist data is Classical 24. If you streamed this show during your Q4 reporting weeks, please make sure that the program guide data in Composer Basic properly reflects when you streamed the show.
Thanks to everyone for their patience - both in the past and in the future - as we work to make this tool as useful as possible.
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