Calculators and tools

Four things worth working out with your own numbers rather than reading someone else's average, plus two lyric-video tools: a timing tool and the engine that puts a meme GIF on every line. The calculators and the timer run in your browser and send nothing anywhere; the GIF engine is a download.

Distributor cost calculatorDistroKid and TuneCore charge an annual fee forever. CD Baby charges once and takes a permanent cut of revenue.
Split sheet calculatorEnter each contributor's writing percentage and see what actually lands where — because the writer share and the publisher share are claimed separately, and the publisher half is…
PRO cost calculatorASCAP is free for a writer account, and free for a writer and publisher account applied for together.
Streaming payout estimatorMost payout calculators use rates somebody made up. This one uses the measured per-play rates from my own complete DistroKid export — 38,691 verified royalty lines across 48…
Lyric sync timerPaste your lyrics, load the song, and hold the space bar (or the button on a phone) while each line is sung.
Lyric GIF b-roll engineFeed it a timed lyric sheet and it searches a meme GIF for every line, cuts each one to the exact length of the line, and writes a finished MP4 plus a Premiere Pro project with…

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The Zero to Beat Society walks through registration, splits and release paperwork step by step — with the templates and checklists already filled in.

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