Backstage Dashboard
Music Distribution Dashboard for Artists, Labels, and Admins
Private
Overview
Backstage is the powerful internal dashboard and artist portal for Promise Distribution, enabling music creators and label managers to manage every aspect of their digital music distribution pipeline. Artists can upload, manage, release, and monetize their tracks directly from one unified interface. Built as a role-based SaaS platform, it features specialized tools for metadata management, royalty calculation, release scheduling, and rights ownership verification. It serves thousands of artists with automated DSP integrations and real-time revenue analytics.
Key Features
- •Track Upload & Metadata Editor - High-quality file uploader with lossless audio support, ISRC/UPC generator, and comprehensive metadata management (composer, genre, language, mood, etc).
- •Release Management - Create singles, EPs, or albums, manage release dates, territories, and platform-specific settings. Includes cover art upload and auto-validation tools.
- •Royalty & Revenue Dashboard - Real-time revenue overview with breakdowns by platform, territory, and release. Artists and collaborators can see transparent royalty splits and payout history.
- •Collaborator Management - Add collaborators per track or album, assign royalty percentages, generate auto-split statements, and manage tax profiles.
- •Admin Control Panel - Superadmin interface for reviewing releases, managing takedowns, resolving conflicts, and moderating metadata. Includes audit logs and manual overrides.
- •Artist CRM & Verification - KYC process for artist verification, social linking, and backend artist management tools for support teams.
- •Copyright & Dispute Center - Rights claim submission, Content ID management, and takedown request processing with evidence and status tracking.
- •Secure Audio Transcoding - FFmpeg-based pipeline for audio normalization, platform-specific encoding, and preview snippet generation.
- •Automated DSP Delivery - Direct API integrations and export modules for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and regional DSPs with release status tracking.
- •Multi-Role System - User roles (artist, label manager, admin) with scoped permissions, feature toggles, and data isolation per account.
- •Payment & Payout System - Artists can request withdrawals via Stripe, bKash, or bank, view earnings, invoices, and track payout history.
- •Notification Center - In-app, email, and optional SMS notifications for release approvals, revenue updates, account changes, and disputes.
Challenges
- •High-Volume Media Handling - Managing hundreds of simultaneous uploads while ensuring format compatibility, quality, and encoding integrity.
- •Royalty Distribution Complexity - Accurately calculating and splitting earnings based on multiple collaborators, currencies, and per-platform reports.
- •Compliance with DSP Standards - Normalizing track metadata and formatting for compliance with evolving DSP ingestion rules.
- •Admin Moderation Workflows - Building tools for release moderation, copyright conflict resolution, and takedown processing with transparency.
- •Audit-Ready Revenue Records - Generating accurate, traceable records of all financial transactions for artists and regulators.
- •Performance at Scale - Ensuring snappy performance across large catalogs, concurrent file uploads, and streaming analytics queries.
Solutions
- •Chunked Upload System - Developed a resumable, chunked file uploader for high-quality WAV and FLAC files, integrated with AWS S3 and pre-processing queues.
- •Modular Royalty Engine - Built a multi-step royalty calculation engine with support for per-track splits, advance deductions, and multiple payout currencies.
- •DSP-Specific Metadata Adapters - Implemented normalization layers for various DSPs with automatic validation, ISRC conflict detection, and fallback mappings.
- •Workflow-Based Admin Tools - Designed release review pipelines, conflict resolution queues, and audit logging for efficient moderation.
- •Ledger-Based Finance System - Created a double-entry-inspired ledger system to record earnings, splits, payouts, and pending balances for transparency.
- •Microservice Deployment - Deployed critical components (uploads, encoding, analytics, finance) as separate services to allow independent scaling and fault isolation.
React
TypeScript
Express
Node.js
MongoDB
AWS S3