Yo, i'm about to delete the distrokid of my old band because i can't afford to keep it any longer. This will delete our music from spotify and everywhere else where it's uploaded. The band is also pretty much over, there's just one guy left. If he wants to reupload it later that's up to him, but i'm not paying for distrokid any longer. Is the band page still allowed to stay up anyway? Also i have the UPC codes, so you can check with disstrokid that these albums were in fact uploaded through their site once upon a time.

Band in question: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Sl ... 3540463037

Thanks for the help.

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: We don't/can't continuously monitor whether something is still up and available, any more than we are totally willing and able to make sure those 14 CD-Rs by some DSBM project that actually ended up getting sold haven't all been fed into a shredder or rendered unreadable through constant and unloving use as coasters at this point. There is a certain level of "due dilligence" we do when assessing bands and if it can be demonstrated to us that something was at least available to people for a certain non-negligible amount of time, that there was the possibility of acquiring it, generally that's good enough for us and worthy of documentation. In the case of almost all digital stuff something always survives on someone's hard drive, I'd wager, even if the original sources are long gone. And even if something were to completely disappear from the face of the digital Earth, it's still valuable for an encyclopaedia to have an entry about it.

This is a bit besides the point, but you could create a Bandcamp page for your music, which is for free, from what I understand. That's a good way to keep the music available to everyone.

http://bandcamp.com/

Alright, thanks both of you.

You can distribute your music to Spotify etc. for free if you use RouteNote, Amuse.io or Soundrop (note Soundrop's website is oriented towards cover songs but I understand their service has no fees for distributing original material).