If an artist has an original song that they haven’t released formally, but they have a YouTube channel with a video of them singing it, does it make sense to create a work for the song and put that YouTube video as a recording? Or is it just not suppoed to be in MusicBrainz at all?
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Fine to add both imo: you know that the work/song exists, which is really the only requirement, and if the YouTube video represents the first known released recording then it’s cool to store that info too (again, in my opinion)
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That’s great to know! And, just realized I should also ask; in the musical spaces I frequent (Twitch, particularly), plenty of streamers upload long VODs containing multiple songs, all of which could be recordings in their own right. Is there any particular way of putting that into the database too?
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I’ll second that a YouTube release is most certainly formal enough to be added to MusicBrainz as a release
for stuff like karaoke VODs, those can be added as well. I don’t have an example exactly like the situation you’re describing, but I do have an unarchived karaoke livestream which is similar enough, methinks
note I’ve added this as both a release and an event
No, they’re not exactly karaoke VODs, they’re singing, and playing instruments too. (But that’s not the point of the question anyway).
Is there any structured way to add timestamps, at all? Or is the only way to do so just to put them in the setlist field, in an unstructured way?
No timestamp support, unfortunately.
I just had a look for a ticket for a timestamp field to be added to medley relationships (I think that would be correct?), I’m surprised that I couldn’t find one. Maybe someone who adds a lot of these releases and is knowledgeable on the subject - e.g. not me - would like to add one to the ticket tracker?
as said, not a perfect analogy, but close enough, methinks
I believe I’ve seen single videos with chapters added as multiple tracks (one track per chapter), so if they’re uploaded that way, it could be added as such