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I post songs on StreetVoice. How do I put a date on them?

2026-11-11 · OpenStela

Paste your StreetVoice profile URL into Import from an account on the works page. It reads the first page of your All songs list, marks any song you've already registered, and registers the ones you tick, one record per song. Older songs go in one at a time with Paste a link. For the songs you'd most hate to lose, also upload the master file, because a link record and a file record pin down different things.

Every record is anchored on chain the same night, so its date can't be moved afterwards. That date is when you registered, not when you wrote the song. If you remember when a song was finished, you can state it, and that statement is frozen into the record as yours. This post covers the import, the gaps it leaves, linking your StreetVoice account, and what the records do and don't show.

Why bother, if StreetVoice already shows the song?

The song page on StreetVoice is evidence of a kind, but it lives on someone else's server. You can edit the title, swap the audio or delete the track, and so can the platform. A page you can change today isn't a strong answer to "when did this exist?" two years from now.

If you're in Taiwan there's a second reason. Under Article 10 of the Copyright Act (last amended 15 June 2022), an author enjoys copyright when the work is completed. There's nothing to file. Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office explains on its page The author's burden of proof and methods (published 11 April 2008, updated 9 May 2025) that the voluntary registration system was abolished by the Act promulgated on 21 January 1998. The same page says that because copyright is a private right, the holder carries the burden of proving it, and should keep records of the creative process, the publication and other matters related to the right.

That page lists ways to prepare, from depositing music with a collective management organisation to court notarisation and keeping every draft. It also says plainly that most of these are private documents a court weighs case by case. None of them settles who the author is. A dated record from us is the same kind of thing: one more piece of evidence, not a certificate. This is general information, not legal advice.

Article 13 of the same Act is also worth knowing. When a work is published with the author's real name or a widely known pseudonym shown in the usual way, that person is presumed to be the author, and the same applies to the publication date and place. Publishing under a consistent artist name already helps you. Writing that same name into your records keeps the story consistent.

Importing your StreetVoice songs in one pass

1. Open the works page, choose Register a work, then Import from an account.
2. Paste your profile URL, streetvoice.com/yourname, and press Read. You'll see the songs from the first page of All songs, with cover thumbnails. Songs this account has already registered are marked registered and can't be ticked.
3. Tick the songs you want.
4. Sort out dates. StreetVoice's list page doesn't give us publish dates, so the box Use the platform's publish date as the creation date has nothing to copy, and those records go in without a creation date. If you untick it and type a date, that one date goes on every ticked song. Usually it's better to leave the date blank in the batch and register songs whose date you remember one by one.
5. Fill in Attribution with the artist name you use on StreetVoice. A pen name is fine, but spell it exactly as it appears there.
6. Rights. Music carries two sets of rights, so the form asks you to confirm both: I hold the rights to the composition and I hold the rights to the recording. If you can't honestly tick both for a song, such as a cover of someone else's song, leave that song out of the batch.
7. If you used AI tools, tick This work was made with AI tools, list them, and write Your contribution. In a batch that text is identical on every record, so group songs that were made the same way and import each group separately.
8. Choose whether the records show on your public page, then register.

There is also a daily limit on how many works one account can register, so a long back catalogue may take a few evenings.

Songs past the first page, and new releases

The import only reads the first page of All songs. For anything older, paste the song URL (streetvoice.com/yourname/songs/123456/) into Paste a link. The form fills in the title it finds on the page. One by one is slower, but you can write a contribution and a date that fit each song.

For new releases there are shortcuts under Quick register in settings: a bookmarklet for desktop browsers, OpenStela in the Android share menu once you've installed the web app, and an iPhone Shortcut that adds a share option. Share a song from the StreetVoice app or site and the registration form opens with that song filled in. The same settings section also describes a Chrome extension that adds a Register on OpenStela button to StreetVoice song pages. When we checked, it showed as awaiting store review, so use the other options until an install link appears.

If you verify your StreetVoice account (below), we also check its song list every six hours and notify you when a new song appears, asking whether you want to register it. Nothing is registered automatically, because a record is anchored and can't be withdrawn. The first check only notes what's already there, so you won't get a flood of notifications for old songs.

A link record and a file record are not the same thing

When you register a StreetVoice link, we fetch the public song page once and store it. The fingerprint is the SHA-256 of that snapshot. The record also notes the song title and artist name the page showed, and whether the attribution you typed appears among them. It's noted, not judged. Your work page then embeds StreetVoice's own player, so listeners play the song on StreetVoice.

The snapshot is the HTML page, not the audio. So the two kinds of record do different jobs:

Uploads take mp3, m4a or wav up to 30 MB each. Registration is free; each account gets 300 MB of upload space for works, and links take almost none (see pricing). For your strongest songs, register both the StreetVoice link and the file you uploaded to StreetVoice. If you also release on streaming services, what to register before releasing a Suno album walks through the master-first order.

Each record comes with a Proof Pack you can download and check without us. How a registered work is verified shows the steps.

Linking your StreetVoice account

Under Settings → Music accounts, add your StreetVoice account. It shows on your profile straight away, marked self-declared, and songs registered from that account are labelled the same way. You don't need anything more to register songs.

To get the verified mark, prove you control the account:

1. Bio. Copy the one-time code, paste it into your StreetVoice self-introduction, save, and press Verify. Once it passes, the code is used up and you can delete it.
2. Links. Alternatively, put the permanent account URL shown in settings (it starts with app.openstela.io/a/) in the links area of your StreetVoice profile.

We only look in those two owner-only places. A code left in a comment under someone's song proves nothing, so we don't read comments. A verification is its own record, anchored that night, and lasts 90 days; we remind you a week before it lapses. It shows you controlled the account at that moment, not who wrote the songs on it.

One more thing about how we read StreetVoice: its robots.txt disallows /api/, so we only ever read ordinary public pages. That's partly why the import stops at one page and shows no dates.

StreetVoice's terms are a separate question

Registering a song with us doesn't change anything on StreetVoice. What you may upload there, and what StreetVoice may do with it, is governed by StreetVoice's member terms of service. The page showed no date when we read it on 11 November 2026, so read the current version yourself. We won't summarise it.

If your songs use AI tools, the terms of those tools matter too, and so does how much of the song is yours. How much do I have to do for an AI work to be protected? goes through what official sources say.

What the records do and don't show

A record shows that a specific page snapshot or file existed on a specific date, under the name you gave, with the contribution you wrote. If your song turns up under someone else's name, you have dated fingerprints to put in front of the platform or a lawyer. That's evidence if a dispute comes up.

It doesn't show that you wrote the song, that you hold its rights, or that someone else's version infringes yours. It doesn't stop copying. It isn't registration with any government office, and Taiwan has none for copyright anyway. For other ways to fix a date, see five ways to prove a file existed on a date.