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ISRC code checker: validate any ISRC in a second
Paste an ISRC with or without hyphens and see whether it is built correctly, what each part means, and what is wrong if it is not. Or paste a whole catalogue and check every code in one go.
A single wrong character can stop a release being paid
An ISRC is the ID that follows a recording through every platform and statement. When a code has a typo, an extra digit or a missing character, distributors reject the release or, worse, accept it and the plays cannot be matched to you later.
Catalogues make it harder. Codes get copied from spreadsheets, pasted from emails and typed by hand, and the same code is reused by mistake for two different recordings. Spotting that by eye across fifty tracks is unreliable.
Check the format instantly, one code or hundreds
The checker cleans up what you paste (hyphens, spaces, the word ISRC, lower case), then tests each part: two letters for the country or agency, three characters for the registrant, two digits for the year and five digits for the recording number.
In list mode it tells you how many of your codes are correct, marks each failure with the reason, and flags duplicates so no two recordings share a code. You can copy the results straight into a spreadsheet.
- Accepts any common way of writing an ISRC
- Explains each of the four parts
- Plain-English reasons for every failure
- Bulk mode with duplicate detection
- Free, instant and private
How to check an ISRC
- 1
Choose one code or a list.
- 2
Paste your ISRC or ISRCs. Hyphens are optional.
- 3
Read the result: valid, check the prefix, or not valid, with the reason.
- 4
In list mode, fix the failures and duplicates and copy the results.
- 5
Confirm any code you are unsure about with your distributor or the agency that issued it.
What a passing check proves
A pass means the code is well formed: twelve characters, a country or agency prefix we recognise, a two-digit year and a five-digit number. It does not prove the code was ever issued to you. Only the issuing agency, or your distributor, can confirm that.
Two digits cannot show the century, so a year such as 99 is read as 1999 and 24 as 2024. The year in an ISRC is when the code was assigned, not necessarily when the song was recorded.
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