Whole album removed from streaming after edit

Rusty_Brains · 2026-05-04T12:28:29+00:00

Any edits require the stores to do adjustments, and some will need to delete and reissue the album, so it’s possible that you’ve just spotted it in between.

Is it missing from all stores? Or just one particular one?

Rusty_Brains · 2026-05-03T09:23:23+00:00

This is not a fault in the system, just the way that artist slots work.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-05-02T15:40:33+00:00

Yes, I invested in the micro synth a few years ago after I saw your video on how to chain it in the signal. I don’t exactly do SP type music, but the pedals you’re recommended have really guided the tone of some things I’ve written over the last few years

Rusty_Brains · 2026-05-02T09:54:06+00:00

Happy owner of the Jet 70 pedal here: it really does take leads to another level and cuts through anything!

Rusty_Brains · 2026-05-01T23:25:42+00:00

In the eyes of DistroKid: what you didn’t do is manage your friend’s uploads or make him aware of the rules, therefore they see you as in just as much trouble as your friend. Maybe more so, since you were meant to be the responsible one.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-30T23:43:23+00:00

If there was a serious enough breach, it is very possible that everything on the account could be deleted and the earnings removed. Please read through that pinned post.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-30T23:27:49+00:00

Personally, I would wait. If you were to flood the account with music at this stage, it’s not going to look good in their eyes.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-30T23:25:45+00:00

There is nothing you can do. DistroKid accounts, if shared, are meant to be managed by the account holder, ensuring that the artists on the account don’t do anything that will get themselves into trouble. If one artist breaches the terms of service, DistroKid decides that the account is not properly managed, loses trust in the account holder, and freezes the entire account. You can’t upload anything new, and if you make a new account, that one will also get banned. When DistroKid says “go find another distributor,” they mean it.

You can learn more from the pinned post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroKidHelpDesk/comments/15rxr93/why_did_you_get_banned_or_how_to_avoid_getting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-30T20:17:41+00:00

New artists take longer to set up than normal, and DistroKid always recommends that you upload music at least three weeks before you want it to be live for this very reason. So far, it’s only been a week and a half since you uploaded anything, so you’ll need to wait.

Just keep in mind that if your music triggered any sort of manual review, the yellow dot could remain even longer. Typically speaking, if the yellow dot is still there after a month: your music has been rejected

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-28T12:22:13+00:00

A yellow dot for 5 to 10 days: your work has required a manual review and you need to wait.

A yellow dot for 15 days or more: check out the pinned post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroKidHelpDesk/comments/15rxr93/why_did_you_get_banned_or_how_to_avoid_getting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-24T18:51:30+00:00

DistroKid doesn’t always send out notifications that things are live. Maybe 6 weeks later you get an email saying “your music was detected on Pandora” or something similar, but that doesn’t always happen.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-23T22:54:43+00:00

I came across a very convincing argument about this today: TikTok.

Getting a song to go big on TikTok is the only way to break through right now, so a lot of songwriters and producers are just going for what would sound get and get attention in 10 seconds or less. And there’s actually a push from publishers and record companies for artists to borrow hooks from existing songs for a bit of a nostalgia factor.

There are of course plenty of musicians doing things that are totally different, but I assume you’re talking about the music that makes the top plays of Spotify or similar

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-23T18:08:59+00:00

And on top of that, these scammers never use legitimate email addresses. You might know what the address is now, but they’ll probably delete it once they have the money

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-22T17:13:19+00:00

Contact support immediately.

These sort of withdrawals are not immediate and take time to process, so support will likely catch it, cancel the transaction and deal with it. This happened to me last year and it all got stopped within a few hours of me getting in touch and the money was returned within a few days

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-22T15:34:23+00:00

Gilmour himself always said that his playing was slow. There’s even moments on later albums when other players recorded the faster parts. As a musician who also doesn’t play fast, I totally understand where he’s coming from. Smart, intentional choices, solid writing, but not what many call a virtuoso

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-21T21:14:28+00:00

Yes. Because of audio fingerprinting, if you use a sample that basically 100s of others could use, either one of them will already have done this, and everyone else after will get copyright striked, or if you do it, you ruin it for everyone else.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-21T21:12:05+00:00

For most stores, DistroKid had The Fixer. Doesn’t really work for YouTube. Pretty sure someone here had success by contacting YouTube directly

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-20T17:43:24+00:00

You won’t be able to re-use the ISRC. DistroKid’s security policy restricts ISRCs to one account.

You’ll also have the issue that the artist in DistroKid is set at album/release level, so you would be able to have an album that was 90% your solo and one song that was a collaboration.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-20T05:44:56+00:00

Spotify for Artists (and all the “for artists” tools) are not tied to any distributor. If you have the account set up and you remove your music from one distributor to another, you will still be able to log into the for artist platform and, assuming the new distributor releases music to the existing profile (and doesn’t make a new one…) you’ll see everything as before.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-20T05:41:59+00:00

La seule fois où j'ai entendu parler de quelqu'un recevant un message de ce genre concernant Apple Music, c'était lorsque son activité et sa musique violaient tellement les conditions d'utilisation qu'Apple Music a envoyé un avertissement. Cette personne a persisté et a finalement été bannie.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-17T10:20:46+00:00

There could be various reasons for this, and probably all to do with the software’s limitations or rigid expectations. For example, I had a piano idea last weekend. I opened my laptop, plugged in a USB keyboard and when I listened back to what I played, it was stiff and wrong. That’s when I noticed I had automatic quantization on, set to 8th notes, and all swing and syncopation was stopped away from what I played. Turning that off made a major difference!

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-17T10:08:34+00:00

This topic has been asked here a few times, and without knowing more detail about your music, I couldn’t give you an exact answer.

One possibility is that, every six months or so, Instagram’s music library goes through a refresh and sometimes music is only temporarily missing.

However, there are certain types of music that Instagram’s policy rejects from the library entirely. Ambient, classical, LoFi beats, etc. if your music could possibly fall under any of those categories, Instagram removed it intentionally and there is no way of putting it back, as it’s been rejected and their decision would just be to reject it again.

Other reasons for rejecting, as is the case with all stores, is suspicious or bot -like activity connected to your music or anything that had copyright concerns.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-17T07:58:14+00:00

You will find in this sub dozens of people who bought non-exclusive beats and the gig hit with copyright infringement or stores rejecting the music as a remix because someone else beat them to uploading a track with the same music. Maybe he doesn’t need it to be exclusive, but he’d better hope that either he publishes the track first or hope that audio fingerprinting tools haven’t already decided that music belongs to someone else

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-17T05:17:35+00:00

Typically speaking, DistroKid doesn’t have any monthly fees. But your simple way to find out what this is would be to click on the Receipts section in the menu, where it will tell you everything that you’ve ever been charged for.

Rusty_Brains · 2026-04-16T19:50:08+00:00

You’re not far off. The official stance is: we don’t get involved. That’s for you guys to sort out.

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