Music Contacts and Songwriter Profiles
Use contacts to manage collaborators, clients, songwriter details, artist relationships, and sharing recipients in Songkeeper.
Contacts are the people and teams you work with: collaborators, clients, session musicians, engineers, managers, and anyone who may need credits, files, or a clear next action. Use a contact for the person. Use an artist for the credited performer name.
What Contacts Store
| Area | Details |
|---|---|
| Identity | First name, last name, stage name, pronouns, notes, and tags. |
| Communication | Multiple email addresses and phone numbers, each with a type and primary flag, plus website and address fields. |
| Professional info | Company, job title, preferred contact method, and other context that helps you find the right person later. |
| Social handles | Handles for Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and LinkedIn. Enter the handle, not the full URL. |
Songwriter Information
Mark a contact as a songwriter when that person should be available for songwriter metadata. The extra fields keep collection-society details with the contact record.
- PRO - Their performing rights organization, such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN, PRS, GEMA, SACEM, SIAE, JASRAC, or APRA.
- - Their collection-society identifier. Songkeeper validates the number format when you save it.
- Default role - Author, composer, or composer and author.
Where Contacts Connect
| Use contacts for | How it helps |
|---|---|
| Artist profiles | Link people to artist profiles, mark the primary contact, and record their role for that artist. |
| Song metadata | Reuse songwriter details when tracking writers, roles, and collection identifiers. |
| Sharing | Select contacts as recipients when sharing songs, files, projects, or playlists. |
| Contracts | Add contacts as contract parties with optional party roles. |
Timeline and Manual Interactions
Each contact has a chronological timeline for durable work history. Songkeeper records high-level sharing milestones, while you can record calls, meetings, emails, texts, and notes manually. Granular play and download analytics remain in sharing reports instead of filling the contact timeline.
- Link a manual interaction to multiple contacts, projects, and songs.
- Attach private JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WebP screenshots to a manual interaction. These images use signed access and do not enter the media library.
- Add standalone Todos from any timeline event. Their current completion state appears under the event, but Todo changes do not create new timeline entries.
- Filter by event type or manual interaction type, or search the safe event details shown in the timeline.
Creating and Maintaining Contacts
- Create quick contacts with a first name, optional last name, and optional primary email, then fill in the detail cards later.
- Use tags and company or job-title fields to keep large contact lists scannable.
- Keep the primary email current. Songkeeper can detect when a contact's verified email belongs to an existing Songkeeper user.
Deleting a Contact
Before deletion, Songkeeper shows the linked records it found, including share links, songwriter profile details, project assignments, and artist associations. Review that impact before confirming. Existing timeline entries keep a safe name snapshot, but their live link to the deleted contact is removed.