Music industry + Patchline-specific terminology. Organized alphabetically.Documentation Index
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AGENTS.md — A markdown file with rules of engagement for AI agents. The docs-site version lives at docs.patchline.ai/AGENTS.md. See AGENTS.md explained. AI credit — Patchline’s unit of metered AI consumption. See Plans & credits. ASCAP — American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. US performance rights organization (PRO).B
BMI — Broadcast Music, Inc. US PRO (peer to ASCAP). BPM — Beats per minute. Tempo measure from sonic analysis.C
Catalog — The set of tracks (yours + your roster’s) Patchline holds metadata + intelligence for. See Catalog. Catalog search — User-scoped search across your Patchline catalog by title, artist, ISRC, mood, genre, BPM, key, and similarity signals. Curator — A person who runs a Spotify (or other DSP) playlist. Patchline ranks curators by “responsiveness score” — see Playlist matching.D
DDEX — Digital Data Exchange. Music industry standards body. DDEX DSR (Digital Sales Report) is one royalty statement format Patchline parses. DSP — Digital Service Provider. Streaming platform (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, etc.).E
EPK — Electronic Press Kit. Bio + photos + press + streaming proof points, exportable from the artist intelligence profile.F
Fan graph — Patchline’s cross-roster + storefront audience network view. Surfaces overlap between artists, cluster identification, bridge artists. See Audience.I
ISRC — International Standard Recording Code. 12-character ID that uniquely identifies a recording. Patchline deduplicates by ISRC. ISWC — International Standard Musical Work Code. The ID for a musical work (composition), not a specific recording.J
JSON-LD — JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data. Structured data format Patchline ships on every page so search engines and AI extractors understand page content. See AGENTS.md explained.L
llms.txt — A markdown file convention from llmstxt.org that serves as a site index for AI crawlers. These docs publish one at docs.patchline.ai/llms.txt.M
MCP — Model Context Protocol. Open standard from Anthropic for giving AI tools access to external services as callable functions. Patchline ships two MCP servers. Mintlify — The platform hosting these docs. Provides MDX rendering, search,llms.txt, .md twins, and the hosted docs MCP server.
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OAuth 2.0 — Authorization framework Patchline’s MCP uses for user-scoped access.P
PKCE — Proof Key for Code Exchange. OAuth 2.0 extension Patchline uses to make the MCP OAuth flow safe for AI clients. Project anchor — Patchline’s persistent state for a release campaign — track list, status, tasks, dates. Concurrent-write-safe. See Project anchors. PRO — Performance Rights Organization (ASCAP, BMI, SoundExchange, PRS, etc.). Collects performance royalties.R
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S4A — Spotify for Artists. Spotify’s artist-facing dashboard. Smart link — A routing URL that takes fans to their preferred streaming platform. Patchline creates these via thecreate_smart_link MCP tool.
Sonic features — The audio characteristics (BPM, key, mood, energy,
valence, etc.) that Patchline extracts via sonic analysis.
Storefront — A branded artist page on Patchline at patchline.ai/store/<slug>
where fans buy music direct. See Storefront.