TuneSat and ONTRK do different jobs
Composers looking for somewhere to go after TRQK are usually pointed at TuneSat, then find themselves unsure whether ONTRK is the same kind of thing. It is not, and the difference is worth ninety seconds of your time before you spend anything.
Tracking royalties is two separate problems, and most tools only solve one.
Problem one
What actually aired?
Fingerprinting your music and listening to broadcast to catch airings nobody reported. This is detection.
TuneSat does this today. ONTRK's is coming soon. No date to give you yet, and this page will not invent one.
Problem two
What did they pay me?
Reading the statements you already receive and turning thousands of rows into what each cue earned, where, and from whom.
This is what ONTRK does, for twelve societies, free to try without an account.
They work better together than apart
Detection on its own gives you a list of airings with no way to tell which were already paid for. A statement on its own tells you what was paid with no way to know what was missed. The value is in the comparison, and that comparison needs both files.
If you run TuneSat, ONTRK will reconcile its exports against the statement that settles the same period, per cue and per quarter, and flag what was never settled. That works today, because the airings come from your file rather than from us.
See how reconciliation worksCommon questions
Should I use ONTRK instead of TuneSat?
Not instead, if you need detection this week: ONTRK's is coming soon and cannot yet tell you about an airing your statement never mentioned. It can already tell you far more about the statement itself than any detection service does.
Can I use both?
That is the combination ONTRK is designed for. Drop a statement and a detection export in together and it reconciles them.
What does ONTRK cost next to TuneSat?
Reading one statement is free with no account. $9 a month keeps every statement you own. They are not really comparable prices, because they are not the same service: detection costs far more to run than parsing does, and honest pricing reflects that.
Related
- Looking for a TRQK alternative? — for composers who lost detection and statement analysis at once.
- How to read a royalty statement — free, in your browser, for twelve societies.
Start with the statement you already have.
Free, no account, about a minute. Whatever you decide about detection, the statement is sitting there unread either way.
Read a statement free →Ready to keep every statement? Create an account — $9 a month, and the first statement is free either way.