Migrating from Horus Music to Audicient

Horus Music is best known as a straightforward, artist-friendly distributor unlimited releases, artists keep 100% of royalties, and yearly plans that start cheap. On top of that retail business, Horus also offers a white label product aimed specifically at distributors and companies with large catalogues, letting them resell the platform under their own brand.

That structure works well for Horus's core audience. But because the white label offering sits alongside a much bigger retail business, and is explicitly positioned for larger operations, it doesn't always fit distributors who are earlier in building their catalogue or who want to know their costs up front.

Where Horus Music Fits and Where It Doesn't

Horus Music's retail plans are published and cheap around £20/year for an individual artist and from £30/year for a label account. Its white label product, by contrast, is offered as a monthly licensing fee that isn't listed publicly; it's positioned for "distributors or companies with large catalogues," and getting a number means reaching out directly.

That's a reasonable model if you're already running a sizeable catalogue and want a bespoke arrangement. It's more of a barrier if you're a smaller or mid-size operation that wants to see a starting price, understand what's included, and get set up without a sales cycle first.

What Transfers in a Horus Music Migration

Audicient's migration team handles the entire process. Here is what moves from Horus Music to your new Audicient instance:

User accounts. Every account in your Horus Music system, including admin and artist-level users, transfers with role assignments maintained.

Artists and labels. Your full roster structure transfers, including any organizational groupings or sub-label setups you've built.

Releases and tracks. All release metadata transfers: track titles, credits, ISRCs, UPCs, release dates, territory configurations, and rights data.

Artwork. Cover art migrates at full resolution. No downsampling, no quality loss.

Audio files. Audio transfers at the original stored quality. High-resolution files move as-is.

Nothing is handed back to you as a spreadsheet to re-upload. Audicient's team pulls the data, maps it correctly, and loads it into your instance. You review it in a staging environment before anything goes live.

How the Data Is Imported

Audicient supports DDEX, CSV, and JSON as standard import formats. Horus Music doesn't publish a self-service bulk-export format, so for accounts coming from Horus, Audicient's team typically manages a custom data export and transforms it to work with the import pipeline. Your team does not need to reformat or repackage anything.

How the Migration Works

The process begins with a scoping conversation. Audicient's team reviews your catalog size, account structure, and any DSP delivery relationships you need to carry over. From there, they handle the technical lift, including mapping your data out of Horus Music's structure and into Audicient's.

Most teams are surprised by how little they have to do. You're consulted at key checkpoints, but the hands-on migration work belongs to Audicient's team. You review the staging environment, confirm everything looks right, and then move to production.

Your DSP delivery connections and existing release statuses are part of the handover conversation, so there are no gaps in where your catalog is live.

What You Get on Audicient

Once you're on Audicient, you're running on a platform built for white label distribution businesses, with a full operational toolkit and a published starting price of $59 per month open to smaller and growing operations, not just larger catalogues.

Deeper Customization Your platform runs on your domain, carries your brand identity throughout the artist and label experience, and can be configured with your own pricing plans and policies. Artists using your platform never see Audicient's name.

Built-In Operational Tools These functions are included in the platform, not sold or arranged as a separate licensing conversation:

• Helpdesk. Support your clients from within the platform.
• Subscription plan builder. Set up flat fees, percentages, or tiered pricing for your artists and labels.
• Smartlinks and custom pages. Pre-save links, release pages, and artist pages built into the dashboard.
• Royalty accounting. Full royalty reporting and statement generation, handled inside Audicient.
• Global payouts. Pay your artists and labels worldwide, directly through the platform.
• Bulk uploads. Submit large release batches without going one by one.
• REST API. Connect Audicient to internal systems or automate workflows.

Pricing That's Visible From Day One Audicient starts at $59/month with the full platform included, published rather than scoped case by case. If you're already running a large catalogue with a negotiated Horus Music white label rate, that comparison is worth doing directly with your account terms. But if you're an operation that doesn't yet meet Horus's "large catalogue" bar for white label, or that simply wants a starting number without a sales conversation, that's the practical difference.

Who This Migration Is For

If your operation is currently on Horus Music and you find yourself:

• Not quite at the catalogue size Horus's white label product is aimed at, but still wanting a fully branded platform
• Wanting a transparent monthly rate instead of a custom-quoted licensing fee
• Trying to consolidate distribution, royalty accounting, and client support into one platform without arranging each piece separately

...then a migration to Audicient is worth a serious look.

Audicient's team will scope the migration with you, handle the full transfer, and make sure your catalog is intact before you go live. Your team's manual involvement is minimal.