Happy “the first fully documented and machine-readable technical format designed to transform how music data is shared and processed across the global audiovisual industry” day to those who celebrate.
Which should be all of us, because this is good news. It’s an announcement from collecting-societies body Cisac of its new AVR+ format, which aims to ensure that audiovisual music data – think cue sheets for TV shows and films – is as accurate and shareable as possible.
This is about standardisation of the metadata, based on the ‘Global Cue Sheet Standard 2.0’ that Cisac previously announced, in September 2024. It’s also about bringing metadata on recordings and works (compositions) together – a perennial challenge for the music industry.
“By improving the accuracy and interoperability of audiovisual music data, AVR+ has the potential to massively increase the efficiency and timely processing of usages,” promised Cisac’s director of business and technology Sylvain Piat.
“AVR+ is more than a technical format: it is a practical blueprint for the future of audiovisual rights data,” added GEMA’s Jens Kindermann, who chairs Cisac’s audiovisual working group. You can dive into the technical details here.
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