MLC Royalty Compressor

Every month, the Mechanical Licensing Collective distributes statements covering U.S. mechanical royalties from interactive streaming and downloads. The raw reports arrive as wide, row-heavy files broken out by work, DSP, usage type, sound recording, and accounting period. The kind of file that takes minutes to open and refuses to filter cleanly in a normal spreadsheet.

The MLC Royalty Compressor reshapes that report into a compact, royalty-accounting view. Rows are grouped by work, sound recording, and DSP, and the totals are preserved exactly so reconciliation, share splits, and writer statements still tie out to the cent.

The output is a lightweight file you can open in any spreadsheet, drop into your royalty system, or send to a co-publisher or writer rep. What used to be a multi-hour wrestling match with the raw MLC export becomes a file you can actually work with.