Under YouTube’s rights ingestion architecture, you cannot distribute a sound recording to YouTube Content ID through DistroVibe without simultaneously delivering the release to YouTube Music.
The This is a standard DDEX and YouTube ingestion policy across most modern digital distributors.
YouTube's asset management architecture ties Content ID enforcement directly to a parent sound recording asset:
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Asset Hierarchy: YouTube pairs Content ID reference files with an existing Sound Recording / Art Track asset to establish catalog provenance and resolve rights conflicts. If the Art Track isn't ingested through the distributor's pipeline, the system cannot link claimed UGC (User-Generated Content) views to the underlying track metadata or pay out streaming and ad revenue consistently.
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Separation of Services: While Content ID requires the Art Track delivery, the reverse is fully flexible. Opting into YouTube Music simply pushes your track to the subscription/streaming service and auto-generates an Art Track without actively scanning, claiming, or monetizing third-party videos across YouTube.
For artists who want to monetize UGC via Content ID while avoiding public YouTube Music uploads (or managing their own manual video uploads), this distributor-level link can be a friction point, but it remains a platform requirement to prevent orphaned reference files and catalog spoofing.