Playtunes — time-based streaming, paid on a Friday.
The streaming rail with a wallet attached is live. Upload once. Earn on a weekly cycle. ISRC, ISWC, CWR-ready — every play is a line an artist can see.
3 min readBy The GlueArrow Editors, Newsroom
Playtunes is the streaming service at the centre of the GlueArrow ecosystem. It is live today with a time-based listening model, a weekly settlement cycle, and a wallet that pays out on Friday. The artist uploads once. The ecosystem does the rest.
What is in the first release
- Time-based streaming — real minutes of listening become the unit of account.
- ValueCard-unlimited access, family networks, and an enterprise enrichment pipeline that cleans metadata as it arrives.
- ISRC, ISWC, and UPC identifiers on submission; CWR 2.1 export ready for downstream PROs and labels.
- Lyric intelligence — AI generation, voice recognition, community corrections, and a visual treatment that reads the song as it plays.
- Submission gate — the quality filter that keeps piracy, instrumentals without rights, and unauthorised DJ mixes out of the catalogue at the door.
Why the weekly cycle
The industry default in most markets is a quarterly statement that arrives months after the quarter closes. The Playtunes default is a weekly statement that closes every Thursday and pays every Friday. The artist waits, at most, one week.