Symphonic wires MassiveMusic audio delivery into its label migration tool

Symphonic has added audio delivery from MassiveMusic to TransferTrack, the technology it uses to move a label's catalogue from one distributor to another. The two companies announced the arrangement on Wednesday 16 September. MassiveMusic is the business-to-business music and technology company owned by Songtradr.

The practical change is narrow and, for anyone who has done it, significant. A label or artist moving to Symphonic whose catalogue already sits in MassiveMusic's infrastructure no longer has to hunt down and upload their own audio files. Symphonic pulls the audio and the metadata across instead.

TransferTrack itself is not new. Symphonic announced the patented tool in February 2024, describing it as the first of its kind, and it lets clients bulk-import eligible releases into SymphonicMS using nothing more than a Spotify artist page or release link. The company says it cuts metadata re-entry, consolidates analytics, and helps a label keep its stream history and playlist placements where the streaming services have linked releases correctly.

What it could not do was the audio. Until now a client still had to upload the underlying files, and sometimes other assets, before a transferred release could be submitted. MassiveMusic's systems now supply those as FLAC files alongside normalised, DDEX-compliant metadata carrying ISRC information, so an incoming catalogue arrives structured and ready to distribute.

The reason any of this matters is continuity. Symphonic coordinates delivery and takedown so a release does not disappear from stores mid-move, which protects the playcount history a label has spent years accumulating, and with it the algorithmic visibility that history feeds. A transfer that loses stream counts costs a label audience it already paid for.

Jorge Brea, Symphonic's chief executive, framed it as a question of freedom: TransferTrack was built, he said, to give independent labels more choice about which distribution relationship suits their business. James Priestley, SVP for global sales, licensing and technology solutions at MassiveMusic, made the practical case, noting that much of the music labels need to move already sits inside a 180 million track catalogue.

The corporate background is a consolidation story. Songtradr bought MassiveMusic in 2021 and, in June 2025, folded its main business-to-business operations under that name, bringing in 7digital's global distribution, Big Sync Music's advertising and licensing arm, Musicube's metadata technology and Resonance Sonic Branding. It had acquired 7digital in a $23.4 million cash deal in 2023.

Symphonic has been moving at a similar pace. It struck a deal with the direct-to-fan platform EVEN in November 2025, partnered with SourceAudio on a licensed AI training data marketplace in February, acquired the YouTube monetisation platform Distro Nation in March, and launched a catalogue financing programme, Symphonic NEXT, in April with access to more than $100 million in capital. In July it partnered with Sureel AI on attribution tracking, and in August it gave clients ArtyShield tools against unapproved AI use of their recordings.

The Tampa-headquartered company was founded in 2006 by Brea, a music producer, describes itself as entirely independent, and raised $37 million in a January 2022 Series B led by NewSpring and Ballast Point Ventures. Its roster and alumni include Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, Marshmello, Doechii, Gunna, Ozuna, Sean Paul, Imogen Heap, Jon Batiste and Tim McGraw. No financial terms for the MassiveMusic arrangement were disclosed.