Release or Recording

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Clarifying "Release" in a streaming world

MusicBrainz aims “to collect as much information about music as we can”, which surely includes music released on streaming media like YouTube. I’m a fan of a couple of groups like Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox and Pomplamoose. They became famous by releasing videos of music performances on Youtube. Releases on physical media like CDs followed after. So, a streaming audio recording or a Youtube video should constitute a Release in MusicBrainz, right? The ‘‘Release’’ documentation doesn’t …