Protect Your Music
Before Someone Else
Claims It
You create it. Someone else steals it, pitches it, and now you're the one explaining yourself. DECODED's Vault timestamps your music the second it exists — cryptographic proof of ownership, before you distribute a single note.
Start Protecting — Free →No credit card · Free forever · Takes 60 seconds
How it works
Protect in three steps.
Takes under a minute.
No lawyers. No registration forms. No waiting. Upload your file — we handle the rest.
01
Upload your file
Upload any audio file — WAV, MP3, FLAC, whatever format you work in. A demo recording works. A rough mix works. The file doesn't have to be finished to be protected.
02
We hash & timestamp it
DECODED generates a SHA-256 cryptographic fingerprint of your file — unique to that exact audio. We permanently timestamp it: this hash existed at this moment. Immutable. Can't be altered.
03
Your proof is on record
Your Vault entry is your evidence of prior art. If anyone claims your work later — labels, other artists, AI scrapers — you have proof that your exact file existed before they touched it.
Why this matters
Protect before you distribute.
Once a track is on Spotify or SoundCloud, proving you created it before someone else claims it gets complicated. The window to protect is before the music leaves your hands.
The risk you take every day
- ⚠️ You send a demo to a label contact. A year later, a similar track surfaces. No timestamp, no proof you had it first.
- ⚠️ You post a rough mix on SoundCloud before you're ready to distribute. Someone downloads and registers it elsewhere.
- ⚠️ AI systems scrape your work, repurpose it. You have no documented creation date to reference in a claim.
- ⚠️ Copyright registration takes months and costs money. You can't afford to register every version of every track.
Proof that travels with your music
- ✅ Every file gets a permanent timestamp. Before demos, before pitches, before playlists — your creation date is on record.
- ✅ Cryptographic hashing means the timestamp can't be faked or backdated. The proof is mathematically tied to your exact file.
- ✅ Protect rough mixes, final masters, lyrics — any version of your work, at any stage of creation.
- ✅ Works alongside formal copyright registration — not instead of it. DECODED gives you immediate evidence; registration formalizes it.
How DECODED compares
Distribution ≠ Protection.
DistroKid and TuneCore get your music onto platforms. They don't protect your IP before, during, or after that process. DECODED does both — and starts free.
Common questions
Things artists ask us.
Your next track deserves
protection from day one.
It takes 60 seconds. The protection lasts forever. Start free — no credit card, no waiting.
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