📄 Improvements

Improvements


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Distribution (Odoo)

Crucial Metadata not visibile to moderator

To identify an issue related to the metadata according to content guidelines, such as correct songwriter credits, the moderator needs to upload the release to SonoSuite first, as the information is not visible moderation queue in Odoo. 



Suggested improvement: All track and distribution metadata should be visible to moderation in Odoo to ensure DSP content guidelines are followed from the jump. 

Emphasis on: Composer and Lyricist fields, Remixer, Genre.


Distribution (Odoo)

Bulk actions are not possible in Distribution moderation.

In cases where we are moderating for users with large catalogs, or a vast amount of release submission,  moderation becomes an excessively manual process, as each release has to be moderated one by one.



Suggested improvement: Moderation could be optimized if bulk acceptances or rejections could be done. This could work alongside adding rejection reasons in an automated flow:

- Releases could be rejected or set to 'In Review' in bulk.
- This triggers a choice of rejection reason for moderator

- This triggers a message to the artist + status change.


Distribution (Odoo) + Media section

No way to see which DSP links correspond to which collaborating Artist on a release in the moderation queue.

Adding DSP links when creating collaborators would be huge.



There is no way for the moderator which DSP link corresponds to the right featured or with artist. 

I have to manually open all DSP links on a release, then manually search for apple music, soundcloud, and youtube links to prevent wrong DSP profile assignment. If I don't do it, then we have more support tickets + unhappy artists.


Distribution / Dashboard / UX

Metadata locked - even if release is put on draft status, artists can't do metadata changes to follow DSP guidelines. 

No way to allow changes to the release if the track is accepted in other service lines. 





Track Metadata / Distribution (Dashboard)
Version field should be open for artists to customise, instead of restricted to our options. 

For example: 
They Don't Care About Us (Slow Remix)
I Love Winamp (Live from Forest National)
Song of The Summer (2016 Remake)



Many artists need to customize the version fields and end up using the title, which does not follow DSP Content Guidelines.