Managing your catalog

Edit live releases, import existing ones, and take down releases.

Your catalog view

Distribution shows every release in your catalog: ones you've shipped through NotNoise and ones you've imported from elsewhere. Each release has a status badge so you can see what's happening at a glance.

  • Draft: you're still working on it. Not submitted.

  • In review: you've submitted it. NotNoise validates the release and ships it to the stores.

  • Released: your music is available on streaming platforms.

  • Needs fixes: validation or delivery hit a problem. Open the release to see what to fix.

  • Paused: the release has been taken down or is being pulled from the stores.

Imported releases (music you distribute elsewhere) appear in the same catalog, marked as imported rather than carrying a delivery status.

Editing a release

What you can edit depends on where the release is in its lifecycle.

Draft (before submit)

Edit anything. Re-upload audio, swap artwork, change every metadata field, move the release date.

In review (before the stores have it)

Contact support@notnoise.co. We can pull the release back to draft if it hasn't been shipped yet. Once it's on its way to the stores, edits get more restrictive.

Released (after going live)

Some fields stay editable. Others lock to preserve royalty integrity.

  • Editable: artwork, secondary genre, contributor credits, label name, P-line and C-line copyright years.

  • Locked: release title, primary artist name, primary genre, language, release date, ISRC, UPC, audio file.

If you need to change a locked field after release, you usually need a full takedown and re-release, which means losing accumulated stream counts and editorial placements. Contact support before going that route.

Importing existing releases

If you've previously distributed through DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby, or another distributor, you can import those releases into NotNoise's catalog. Imports don't change distribution: the original distributor still owns the delivery. Importing just gives you one place to track analytics across all your music.

Go to Distribution > Imports and click Import release. Paste the Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Music URL. NotNoise pulls the release metadata across every DSP it can find.

Imported releases are marked as imported in your catalog. You can't edit their metadata through NotNoise (that's still your old distributor's job), but you can run Smart Links against them and pitch them for playlist placement.

Taking down a release

Click on a live release. Click Takedown. Confirm. NotNoise sends takedown requests to every DSP.

How long it takes per DSP:

  • Spotify, Apple Music: usually 1 to 7 days.

  • YouTube Music: up to 14 days because YouTube has more layers (the audio may be in fan-uploaded videos).

  • Smaller and regional DSPs: 1 to 4 weeks.

Takedowns are irreversible from the DSP side. If you want the music back, you re-distribute it as a fresh release. You'll lose the original release date, stream counts, and any playlist placements.

Replacing audio on a draft

Before you submit, you can re-upload audio as many times as you want. Open the draft, drag a new file into the audio slot, the old one is replaced.

After submission, you cannot replace audio. You'd need a full takedown and re-release.

Bulk actions

Select multiple releases from the catalog list to take them down together, or to apply a label-wide change like a new copyright year. Bulk edits respect the same locked-vs-editable rules per release status.

Switching from another distributor

Already releasing through DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby, or someone else? You can usually move a release to NotNoise without downtime and keep the streams, saves, and playlist placements you have already earned, as long as the old and new deliveries overlap correctly and the codes match. The order of the steps is what protects your history, so follow the full walkthrough in its own guide: "Switching to NotNoise from another distributor." This is different from importing for analytics above, which only mirrors an outside release so you can track it.

If you cancel your plan

Your releases stay live while your plan is active. If you cancel, a 30-day grace period starts: your music stays live and you can reactivate anytime. You can also take any release down yourself at any time from the catalog.

Before the grace period ends you can reactivate your plan, move into Catalog Mode if eligible (releases stay live with an 85/15 royalty split), or pay the Keep-Live Fee to keep a limited number of existing tracks live at your full royalty share (the current price is shown in your dashboard during the grace period). If none of those happen, eligible catalogs may move into Catalog Mode automatically; otherwise we schedule a takedown from the stores.

Full details, including the exceptions: see Cancelling your distribution plan.

Last updated: June 12, 2026

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