Hello, I am looking into adding a few VTuber karaoke livestreams, but I’m not really sure how to do the track list portion. I did see a few posts that suggest these are allowed at all, including the unarchived ones (as long as there’s an unofficial archive available), but I couldn’t find any specific information on how tracks work in this scenario.
These streams generally contain intermixed singing and talking portions, and there often isn’t any official list of tracks (i.e. chapter markers or an official list of timestamps in the description/comments). The most we might get is an ordered list of songs on-screen as they sing, or some fan-made lists of timestamps (only for archived streams though). I’ve seen these streams handled two ways on MusicBrainz, neither of which I find satisfactory.
(For context, I mainly use MusicBrainz to tag my music via Beets to import to Jellyfin. I’d personally prefer to split the stream into multiple files, where one file represents EITHER a song with some amount of talking portions mixed in (this is how Bo Burnham performances are released), OR solely a song or solely speech (but I don’t know how to name spoken portions).)
The first method I’ve seen is what “So this is sugar ooowooowowowoo” by Nanashi Mumei does, where the entire stream is a single long track, and its marked as a “live recording of” every song she sang. I’m not a fan of this, since it lacks literally any information about ordering.
A second method is how “【歌枠｜UNARCHIVED KARAOKE】One More Silly Singing Stream ! ~” by Nanashi Mumei works, where it lists each song as a separate track, but none of the tracks have any length data, so I have no idea where one track ends and another begins, or whether its even including the spoken sections.
My ideal (no examples found) would be where each song and each talking portion get their own tracks. But again, I wouldn’t know how to name the latter tracks; I know there’s [unknown], so do I use that, or is there something specific to spoken portions of live performances? Also, where would I even split each track? The line between sung and spoken portions can be very blurry sometimes.
So what’s the consensus here, if any? I get the impression that MusicBrainz wouldn’t want users “making up” a track list/lengths if there’s nothing official, so maybe I’m asking too much from it, but I would also really like a properly fine-grained look into the structure of these streams. I also assume that one or both of the releases I linked earlier need to be fixed; Mumei has multiple releases using each format, so it isn’t clear which (if any) is “correct”.