Using Songcards¶

Songcards is built around one simple unit: one song, one Songcard.

A Songcard can follow a song from an early idea through generation and publication without forcing you to complete a large form first. Only the title is required.

Song identity¶

Song identity contains the details that help you recognise, organise and find the song later.

Current fields include:

Title
Catalog number
Primary artist
Project
Song status
Status note
Language
Duration
Primary genre
Secondary genre
Work type
Work type note when relevant
Tags

A catalogue number is your own internal reference. Songcards does not automatically derive it from the title or project.

A song may have more than one language.

Work type can describe an original song, cover version, remix, adaptation or translation, traditional song, or another type when needed.

Creative¶

The Creative section keeps the writing and production context together:

Core idea
Working lyrics
Final lyrics
Production notes

Working lyrics and final lyrics are separate on purpose. You can keep the draft or generation text that mattered during creation without replacing the clean final lyric.

Suno generation¶

Suno generation records the information around a Suno creation.

It can include:

Model
Plan used
Creation mode
Voice source
Suno song URL
Voice details when relevant
Style prompt
Weirdness
Style influence
Audio influence when relevant
Excluded styles
Generation notes

Songcards does not connect to your Suno account and does not automatically read private Suno data. Record the information you want to preserve.

Some fields are conditional. For example, choosing a platform-generated voice can hide voice fields that are irrelevant to that choice. Hidden fields are not intended as a signal that old stored information should be silently discarded.

Release, credits & rights¶

Use Release, credits & rights when the information becomes relevant.

Release details¶

You can record details such as:

release date;
distributor;
record label;
ISRC;
UPC / EAN;
Master file;
Cover file.

Master file and Cover file are references. Songcards stores a filename, local path or note — not the media file itself.

Credits & rights¶

Songcards can keep:

rights review status;
composition copyright owner;
sound recording copyright owner;
rights notes;
songwriters;
additional credits.

Rights review can be marked Not reviewed, Needs review or Rights documented.

This is documentation, not a legal ruling. Songcards does not prove ownership, decide copyright questions or replace professional legal advice.

Published links¶

Publication links can be recorded for destinations such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, your own website/catalogue, a smartlink, or a custom destination.

The library is meant to be returned to, not merely filled in once.

Search can use current identity information such as title, catalogue number, artist, project, status, language, genres, work type and tags. Existing library filters remain available, and the list can be grouped by Project or Status.

Use the information you naturally remember. The point is to avoid reconstructing old song history from scattered tabs, notes and filenames.

Autosave, duplicate and delete¶

Songcards saves edits into the local working library automatically.

You can duplicate a Songcard when a new record should begin from an existing one. Release-specific data that should not automatically carry to a new record is reset by the duplication workflow, while reusable creative/credit information is preserved according to the app's rules.

Delete is available through the More menu and requires confirmation.

What Songcards does not do¶

Songcards does not generate music, distribute releases, store your audio files as attachments, act as a royalty system, or provide legal advice.

It keeps the record behind the song.

Next: Backup & Restore.