How do groups work?

• For a user to see a track, the user and the track need share a group.
• A user must have at least one group but could be in many groups. By default, upon signup users are automatically added to the “Main Catalogue” group.
• For tracks, groups need to be applied at the release level, or at the label level. Groups cannot be applied directly to individual tracks.
• Groups cascade from releases & labels onto all tracks beneath them (all main + alt versions).

Types of group

There are three types of group: tier, client, and country. They function identically (see above) but may be used to distinguish some quite different use cases.

Examples of each are:

• Tier — Gold / Silver / Bronze ...and/or... Commercial / Non-commercial
• Client — BBC / Netflix / Apple
• Country — France / Germany / Croatia / Rest of world / Worldwide

The “Main Catalogue” group

Every new library is created with a “Main Catalogue” group. Unauthenticated users, see tracks and releases that are in this group.

By default:

• All users are added to “Main Catalogue” upon signup
• All releases are added to “Main Catalogue” upon ingestion

This flow works for the vast majority of use cases but may be modified if more subtle access privileges are needed.