- Set up a visual/avator for your SHS user profile
- Like our Facebook page
- Communication
- Give a short presentation (anything you want to share) in the forum thread with your name
- Use the forum to communicate, this will allow any editor to jump in
- Avoid PM and email
- Submissions
- You can continue submitting covers on public website, but beware you're only making your own To Do-list longer.
- Also, as an editor you won't be using the submission form anymore, except for web covers.
- Essential reading list
- Make sure you understand the difference between a work and a performance.
- Link your SecondHandSongs account to your Discogs account. If you don't have a Discogs account, create it first.
- Process your very first submission on the test site
- Go to Participate > Unprocessed Own Submissions
- Choose a submission with the green "Cover" label (NOT with the blue "Generic label)
- Click on "Assign to Me"
- Start processing...
- Works
- Create a new work
- Link your work to ISWC, ASCAP, BMI and GEMA. Access them through our list of PRO databases.
- Manage a data mismatch: Decide whether to overrule or correct
- Read the guideline first
- Then pick a case from the error list. Preferrably process one of your own entries, if you don't have any, pick any other.
- Create a foreign language adaptation
- Make an existing work an adaptation of another work
- Performance
- Attributing an existing performance from the wrong to the right work
- Create a medley
- Create an original performance that first appeared in a movie. Requires creating a Broadcast first.
- Release
- Create a release using the Discogs form filler
- Linking an existing performance to a second release
- Create a joint performer while creating a release or performance
- Changing the performer of a release, and subsequently using the "Mass Edit" menu to likewise edit the performances on the release
- Link an Apple Music release
- Artists
- Crop an artist picture
- Create an artist relation
- Merge artist aliases
- Convert an artist alias into a joint performer. See Video tutorial
- Use mark-up language
- To make internal object links
- To hide external links
- Manually quote text (= not using the quote button)
- Upload an attachment
- Submissions
- Process an entry using the "Create" buttons
- Register a performance
- Ask editor access to our Facebook page
- Ask to be added to the Editor World Map
