You, as an artist, are always evolving. The tracks you produced two years ago represent a specific moment in your career, but they might not represent the artist you are today.
If you’re using Groover to get your music heard, first impressions are everything. You often only get one shot at catching a curator’s ear, which is why it’s important to ensure your tracks meet modern professional standards.
In this article, we’ll explore why remastering your older songs is a smart strategic move before pitching them to curators.
Why is remastering interesting?
Your old songs most likely didn’t have the same ears, tools, or experience you have now. But if you want to give it a second push, and life, they should have today’s industry standards.
By remastering your older song, you allow them to “level up” so they can match the audio quality of your newest work, ensuring your entire catalogue feels cohesive and professional.
Streaming platforms gradually update their loudness normalization standards. A track mastered in 2018 might sound quiet or “thin” compared to a 2024 release. If you’re either brushing off dust of an old unreleased song, or polishing up an older released track, a fresh mastering process will ensure both hit the right “sweet spot” for modern playback systems.
How to remaster a song
Curators on Groover receive hundreds of submissions, and if a track sounds “unpolished” or dated in its technical delivery, a curator might pass on it. Remastering reduces that barrier, allowing the listener to focus more on the creative aspects of the song rather than the audio quality.
When you’re preparing your campaign on Groover, you can utilize the Groover mastering service powered by Masterchannel to optimize your track automatically in minutes. It analyzes your song and applies a professional-grade master, ensuring that when a curator hits “play,” they hear your music at its absolute best.
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How to update your released songs
Many artists fear they will lose their play counts or playlist placements if they swap out their existing released songs, but there is a simple way to do it using your preferred distributor:
- Copy your ISRC code: Find the original ISRC code for the track on your distributor’s dashboard.
- Prepare the new file: Ensure the metadata is identical to the original. This includes:
- Song Title
- Artist Name
- Artwork
- Track Length (it must be similar to the original)
- Upload as a new release: Create a new release and paste the original ISRC code into the ISRC field. This tells streaming platforms that this is the same “asset,” which helps preserve your stream counts.
- Wait for the “Link”: Once the new version is live, you should see both versions on your profile (they may even show as “1 song, 2 versions”).
- Delete the old version: Once the new version is successfully live and linked, you can safely take down the original, unmastered version.
So, before you send that next pitch to a blog, radio station or playlist curator, take a moment to ask: “Is this track optimized for success”? If not, a remaster might be exactly what you need to turn a “no” into a “yes”.
Now that your release is ready, it’s time to get it heard by the best music curators