STYLE-2428: Step by step video (releases) guidelines thread

anything not quoted from above, I agree with and have nothing to add~

I believe there are several stores that sell music videos, I know specifically Bugs! does (only available in Korea tho), and maybe Bandcamp in some circumstances? I’ve seen videos on Bandcamp, but haven’t gotten them in the download, so… :person_shrugging: (they might only be included with a purchase, not for free? I dunno…)

I believe most of these should be allowed, save for maybe video chats (tho I have added karaoke livestreams before, see the live broadcast releases for Nanashi Mumei. video chats could count as interviews in some cases?). that said, I don’t mind any of the second point here being excluded from getting releases (unless there’s no official music video for the recording, for example miComet’s version of Animal, the first example below)

I’ve added far too many of these to count, but here’s some examples selected at semi-random

I don’t know that I’d typically add these myself (it’s a lot of work to track them down), but I’d consider these to be equivalent to live bootlegs, and should be treated the same way. I’ve previously added some such releases too (both using the video title)

also adding unofficial videos in this section

I would count these too for the recording release date, but I have no idea how to best enter such releases; what status or medium type or whatnot. I’d imagine there is some sort of release event for music videos and some way they were distributed to the TV stations (at least in the days of MTV), but I’ve yet to find any details of how that worked. that said, I’ve added a few releases for these too:

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