Set up a visual/avatar for your SHS user profile
Follow our social media accounts : Facebook, Twitter and Bluesky
- NB: We don't expect you to create a Facebook account if you don't have one. But if you do we'll give you editor access, and you can post anything you deem cover song-relevant.
- Get editor access to our Facebook page
- Update 2025 : Our Twitter account is currently on hold
Link your SecondHandSongs account to your Discogs account.If you don't have a Discogs account, create it first.This is how it should look like on your User Profile:
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 for any database-related subject
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
- The Test database instructions
- The Capitalization guidelines
- The Editor bookmarks
Make sure you understand the difference between a Works and a Performances.
Process your very first submission
- Go to Participate > Unprocessed Own Submissions
- Choose a submission with the green "Cover" label
- For now, avoid submissions with the red "Original" and blue "Generic" labels
- Click on "Assign to Me"
- Start processing this entry by using the CREATE buttons that appeared
- NB: This will create the weird situation where you're asked to rate your own submissions. This is not an important matter, do what you want with it.
- Choose a submission with the green "Cover" label
- Process a submission using the "Create" buttons in the Top Editor Bar
- Reattribute a submission to a different work
- Register a performance
- Go to Participate > Unprocessed Own Submissions
Handle the Error reports assigned to you
- When we spot database entries that need to be improved or corrected, we will assign Error Reports to you.
- Don't be suprised if you get an impressive amount of error reports, and certainly don't take it personal:
- It's part of your training process
- It's inevitable to make (a lot of) mistakes in the beginning
- While you're in the training process, please wait to set error reports as processed until more senior editors have confirmed all is ok
- Reattribute an error report to the relevant database entity, and also the editor asssignation (if needed)
- If it concerns a Youtube video that a non-editor added
Handle the Unassigned Error reports submitted by you
- With your new powers you're able to edit entries created by retired editors.
- Use these new access powers to clean up the list of Unassigned Error reports submitted by you, that have probably remained unprocessed for some time.
- Assign an error report for a mistake that has been made by an active editor different from the owner of the entry.
- 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 How to Manage Mismatch Warnings 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
- Create a new work
- Performances
- Attributing an existing performance from the wrong to the right work
- Create a medley
- Fix the order of the medley parts
- Create an original performance that first appeared in a movie. Requires creating a Broadcast first.
- Create a mash-up
- Release
- Create a release using the Discogs form filler
- Linking an existing performance to a second release
- Link to 2 related releases
- Link a Youtube playlist
- Link a Spotify release
- Link an Apple Music release
External data: Link artists and/or performances- 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
- Upload an attachment
- Use the circular crop feature for a single visual
- Artists
- Crop an artist picture
- To get rid of a border or text
- To center it horizontally
- Create an artist relation
- Merge artist aliases
- Convert an artist alias into a joint performer. See Video tutorial
- Crop an artist picture
- Text editing
- Use mark-up language to make internal object links simply by pasting the URL
- Use mark-up language to make internal object links but also altering the displayed text
- Use mark-up language to hide external links
- Manually quoting = not using the quote button
- Link a specific forum post
- Ask to be added to the Editor World Map
- Clean Automated Error Lists