Submitting your music to fingerprint DSPs (YouTube Content ID, TikTok, Facebook/Instagram, SoundCloud, Audible Magic) allows the platforms to automatically detect and claim videos that use any part of your track. However, not all music can be distributed to these platforms.
What is eligible?
For all Fingerprint DSPs:
✅ Your content must be original and exclusive.
Additionally, for YouTube Content ID:
✅ Your release must be delivered to YouTube Music.
✅ Your release must have no territory restrictions.
What is not eligible?
This content cannot be submitted to any fingeprint DSP.
❌ Songs that incorporate sounds, beats, rhythms, backtracks, sound effects, loops, samples, stock music, or AI-generated audio -whether paid or free- acquired from production libraries, music apps, or DAWs (e.g. GarageBand, Ableton Live, Fruity Loops, Logic) under non-exclusive licenses.
To be eligible, you must hold an exclusive commercial license - meaning you are the only person authorized to use that sound. A standard or non-exclusive commercial license is not sufficient.
❌ Songs already monetized by another distributor. When transferring a catalog, make sure to coordinate with the previous distributor to avoid these issues.
❌ Songs that contain very generic sounds (for example, audience applause, mobile phone ringtones, laughter) or white noise (for example, raindrops, nature sounds, wildlife sounds).
❌ Ambient, Meditation, Yoga or Sleep Music.
❌ “Sound-alike” versions that imitate and infringe original copyrights, as well as recordings that are not sufficiently distinct from other legitimate recordings.
❌ Compilations such as mashups, countdown lists, continuous DJ mixes, or full album recordings played as a single track.
❌ Unauthorized DJ & Extended Mixes: mixes of unauthorized content that is made up of multiple distinct sound recordings played sequentially.
❌ Movie soundtracks (it is permitted to distribute original movie soundtracks and songs originally composed for a film and released as part of a soundtrack, provided you hold the exclusive rights).
❌ Video game soundtracks.
❌ Recordings that are in the public domain, as there is no associated rights holder.
❌ Karaoke recordings: any karaoke or sound-alike recording that imitates or is recorded to sound like an original sound recording.
❌ Spoken word: podcasts, radio shows, narrations, speeches, audiobooks, sermons.
Additional restrictions:
On Facebook/Instagram:
❌ You cannot distribute music in the Classical genre.
On Audible Magic:
If the delivered music content is longer than 30 minutes, it will be considered long-form content. Audible Magic will not process it immediately and will queue it for later review.
If you submit a song to fingerprint DSPs that does not meet the eligibility requirements, our team will flag it for review. In such cases, we will contact you to request the necessary information to determine whether the track can be approved for distribution.
Please note that violations of these guidelines may result in the permanent blocking of your track(s) on these DSPs.
limbo music is responsible for enforcing platform compliance and ensuring content eligibility.