# Managing your catalog (https://notnoise.co/documentation/managing-your-catalog)

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

## Your catalog view

Distribution > Releases 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.

- **Submitted** — sent to NotNoise for validation.

- **In delivery** — being shipped to DSPs.

- **Live** — your music is available on streaming platforms.

- **Imported** — distributed elsewhere, visible in your catalog for analytics.

- **Takedown requested** — you've asked us to pull it. In progress.

- **Taken down** — removed from all DSPs.

Filter the list by status. Search by track title, artist, or ISRC.

## 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.

### Submitted (before delivery)

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

### Live (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 get the Imported badge. You can't edit their metadata through NotNoise (that's still your old distributor's job), but you can pin them to your dashboard, 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.