![]() The key benefit is the ability of the ISMN to accurately track products through their lifetime. The ISMN gives added value to the entire music industry chain. The International Standard Music Number is an efficient organizational and simplification tool wherever notated music publications are produced, distributed, sold and lent. Its usefulness is recognized internationally by composers, music publishers, music traders, libraries and rights organizations. Customers do not have to search the needle in the haystack, namely music among millions of non-music items.Įveryone who comes in contact with notated music publications needs an ISMN. ![]() Music publications can be easily filtered out of the huge amount of other publications by means of the ISMN and thus used for Music in Print and other purposes.Music is clearly excluded from ISBN in the text of the standard.In contrast to Books in Print, Music in Print should be an international directory.Lots of music is produced in small editions by composers, church communities etc. This is an important factor in handling in the trade, even now when so much is not looked at but just processed in automatic ways. ![]()
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