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One of the most persistent challenges in the music business is access to capital that doesn’t create operational friction.

Funding decisions often come with rigid terms, limited visibility into trade-offs, and pressure to restructure distribution relationships. What should be a strategic decision frequently becomes a constraint.

beatBread has built a different model.

Through its platform, labels and artists can evaluate multiple funding offers, adjust deal structures, and model different scenarios before committing — allowing capital to be aligned with long-term catalog strategy rather than forcing short-term compromises.

Now available through OpenPlay Connect, beatBread becomes part of a broader ecosystem where funding, catalog management, and distribution workflows can operate in coordination.

As Matthew Tilley, Head of Artists and Industry Development at beatBread, explains:

“As longtime friends (and fans!) of the OpenPlay product and team, we are delighted to be part of the launch of OpenPlay Connect. We’ve always advocated for more transparency and choice in the music business and Connect is a great step towards a more level playing field.”

beatBread joins a growing marketplace of providers accessible through OpenPlay Connect, helping labels and rights owners discover and integrate the services that power modern music operations.

Audio contains far more value than most workflows are designed to capture.

From licensing and rights management to metadata, localization, accessibility, and content creation, audio is often trapped inside disconnected systems and manual processes.

AudioShake was built to change that.

Using advanced audio processing, AudioShake transforms recordings into structured, usable assets through stem separation, lyric transcription, and audio analysis. By making audio more accessible and actionable, rights holders can unlock new revenue opportunities, streamline operations, and get more value from the content they already own.

Now available through OpenPlay Connect, AudioShake integrates directly into the workflows where catalog, rights, and distribution teams already operate, helping organizations move faster and make better use of their audio assets.

As Jessica Powell, Co-Founder & CEO of AudioShake, explains:
"The future of music operations depends on making audio more accessible, actionable, and connected. AudioShake helps turn audio into usable assets, while OpenPlay Connect creates new opportunities for those assets to move through the industry. Together, we're helping rights holders unlock more value from the content they already own."

Discover AudioShake inside the OpenPlay Connect marketplace.

Expanding across Latin America introduces a new layer of operational complexity for rights holders.

Multiple territories.
Distinct regulatory environments.
Regional marketing dynamics.
And often fragmented distribution relationships.

What should be global catalog expansion frequently turns into operational friction.

For more than three decades, FaroLatino has helped rights holders navigate that complexity. Through digital distribution, copyright protection, related rights administration, and regional marketing expertise, they enable labels and publishers to operate more effectively across Latin America.

In addition to its regional distribution expertise, FaroLatino has established itself as a strategic partner in rights monetization and protection on YouTube. With specialized tools for Content ID management, dispute resolution, and revenue optimization, FaroLatino helps rights holders —including labels and publishers in the United States— regain control over their catalogs on the world’s largest video platform. For the USA market, where YouTube rights management has become increasingly complex, having a partner with decades of operational experience represents a real competitive advantage

Now integrated into OpenPlay Connect, FaroLatino becomes part of a broader marketplace where rights holders can discover and integrate specialized services without adding platform sprawl.

As Javier Fainzaig, CEO of FaroLatino, explains:
“At FaroLatino, we celebrate OpenPlay's transformation into a disruptive B2B marketplace. As CEO and founder, I am proud to contribute our 30 years of experience managing digital rights to this project. Faced with the challenge that AI poses to intellectual property, we are applying our expertise to strengthen this open and essential solution for the entire industry.”
By connecting regional expertise with centralized catalog and rights infrastructure, services like FaroLatino make global catalog strategy operationally viable.

Discover FaroLatino and other providers inside OpenPlay Connect.

The music industry has no shortage of ideas.

What it’s lacked is access.
Access to the tools.
Access to infrastructure.

Access to the technical resources needed to actually build.

That’s changing.

Tomorrow, at OpenPlay CoLab during Music Biz 2026, we’re bringing together artists, labels, publishers, entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and technology partners to prototype the future of the music business in real time.

We’re excited to be joined by DataArt, a global software engineering and AI partner trusted by music companies across the industry.
From modernizing legacy systems to building scalable AI and data infrastructure, DataArt has spent nearly two decades helping power the operational backbone of the music ecosystem.

Together, we’ll explore how AI-native workflows and vibe coding can unlock faster innovation across catalog operations, rights, analytics, marketing, and beyond.

The day begins with a one-hour hands-on vibe coding workshop led by Edward Ginis before teams break into collaborative build sessions with OpenPlay APIs and partner technologies.

This isn’t another panel discussion.

It’s a working session for the future of the industry.
Register here: https://events.bizzabo.com/843933

The music industry has spent years operating across disconnected platforms, fragmented services, and isolated data systems.

OpenPlay Connect was built to change that.

Connect is the new transaction hub for the music industry - bringing all of the industry’s best technology providers, rights services, metadata partners, analytics, and AI tools into one platform, one ecosystem accessible by labels, publishers, distributors, and others.

Featuring:
• 57 apps and services
• The industry’s top tech, data and service providers
• AI-powered orchestration
• Seamless metadata & rights transfer

One marketplace for stems, lyrics, work registrations, fingerprinting, royalties, audio editing, video creation, data & analytics, and more.

And this is only the beginning.

If you’re a label, publisher, distributor, or music tech/service provider, learn more at:
https://www.openplayconnect.com/

Next week at Music Biz 2026 in Atlanta, we’ll be giving live walkthroughs and deeper looks into what Connect is powering across the industry.

If you’re attending Music Biz and want to see Connect in action, click here to book time with the OpenPlay team:
https://openplay.co/request-demo/