Anyone across ISRC codes?

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Armistice

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So I've applied for and received, from our national licencing body, the ISRC for our band.

What's got me foxed is that according to what they've sent, an ISRC code is in the following format:

ISRC AU-XXD-14-00001

where AU = Australia, XX is the two digit code they gave me for my band as the first owner code (not the real one, obviously...), D = sound, not video which is part of the three digit registrant code of which the XX is the other section (that's what is says!), 14 is the year, and I start the numbering at 00001, then 00002 etc. etc. etc. for each song

What I'm struggling with is that I only got a two digit code signifiying the band, and it's two letters. Assuming they use letters & digits, then that's 36 x 36 combinations, or 1296 total possibilities for recorded music by Australians since ISRC codes were invented.

I know we're a small country but I fail to see how this is going to be a unique code given the small number of variations possible.

The actual ISRC handbook says the three digit registrant code provides 46656 possibilities and don't prescribe that the third digit is either D (sound) or Q (video) and nothing else, as I'm being told by the AU licencing people... so 46656 = 36 * 36 * 36, which sort of makes more sense...

Anyone have a clue? What's a US one look like?
 
US codes follow the same format. There is no special code for videos, you just assign a different number to the video. The US ISRC website recommends using a 9 at the beginning of ISRCs to indicate a video.
 
the first two is the contry code.
then the "xxx" is the registrant (band) then year "xx" then ser.no.
how ever you assign your serial numbers is whatever. but its recommended to group the audios and the videos seperate.

its not likely that a band is going to have 99999 things isrc coded in a year.
 
Armistice said:
The actual ISRC handbook says the three digit registrant code provides 46656 possibilities and don't prescribe that the third digit is either D (sound) or Q (video) and nothing else, as I'm being told by the AU licencing people... so 46656 = 36 * 36 * 36, which sort of makes more sense...
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I take it upper and lower case is not used?
 
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