Music Moderation: Understanding Audio Matching Ratios for Smooth Distribution

In the digital era, major music distribution platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube are increasingly tightening their copyright moderation processes. To ensure your music products are delivered to digital music stores smoothly and safely, the audio fingerprinting scanning process by our quality review team always operates strictly to detect duplicate content.

Below is the detailed updated information regarding the audio matching ratios that every artist and producer needs to fully understand before releasing a product.

The moderation process will classify your track based on the following specific ratios:

• A ratio of 10% or less (Passed): The track is fully accepted. Our quality review team will approve it and proceed with distributing the product to global digital music platforms.
• A ratio from 11% to 15% (Exception): The track will enter a strict review zone. In some exceptional cases, delivery can still be accepted if the artist provides a full, legitimate license for any commercial samples, loops, or beats used.
• A ratio above 15% (Rejected): The level of duplication is too high; our quality review team will definitely reject delivery. This helps protect the artist's own account from the risk of copyright strikes or track takedowns by DSPs due to content spam policies.

Tips to Keep Your Products "Safe" During Moderation

To avoid unfortunate holds or rejections, music creators should keep the following important tips in mind:

• Personalize your audio materials: Avoid using free or generic loops and samples available online as-is in your mix. Try to alter them deeply by changing the tempo, pitch, EQ, or adding audio effects that bring out your unique identity.
• Prepare legal proof in advance: If you use a beat purchased from online platforms, always save the license file. This allows you to provide it immediately to the support team if your track falls into the exceptional moderation zone, minimizing your waiting time.

Tightening the audio matching ratio is not meant to make things difficult for creators, but to act as a shield protecting the credibility of our quality review team's distribution process and your own products in the international market. Please invest thoroughly in the uniqueness of your music to collectively build professional, sustainable artistic values.