# What does video recording includes in it?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-does-video-recording-includes-in-it/784049
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** recording, digital-media, music-video, video, musicbrainz, style, relationships
**Created:** [August 15, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-does-video-recording-includes-in-it/784049 "2025-08-15T18:29:23Z")
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### Author: ![Libra](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@Libra](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Libra)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-does-video-recording-includes-in-it/784049/3 "2025-08-15T20:29:39Z")

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> [@UltimateRiff](#):
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> in all those cases, you could add an audio recording to go with the video, as the audio would technically have different credits (basically just excluding artwork and other video credits)

As written, this is what I do for first 3 cases.

> [@UltimateRiff](#):
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> for case 4, I’d just create a standalone recording

So unusual to hear that from you 😃

As I said, most of my releases were published only in video format on YT and this is exactly what I did at the beginning after I learned from @chaban that video recordings should always be [added](https://musicbrainz.org/edit/115220993) separately from audio recordings. I took this practice based on chaban’s edits ([here](https://musicbrainz.org/recording/68b129e3-0532-420c-aebf-5ad71894cc2e/edits), for instance). As far as I can see, chaban [prefers](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/import-youtube-video-broken-on-latest-chrome-windows-10-with-userscript/714322/14) to add standalone recordings for video and not releases. But then [here](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-there-any-way-or-special-purpose-artist-to-add-listeners-viewers-as-authors/725097/6) you advised to add releases for video recordings:

> [@Is there any way or \[special purpose artist\] to add listeners/viewers as authors?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-there-any-way-or-special-purpose-artist-to-add-listeners-viewers-as-authors/725097/6):
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> also, I wanted to note that usually music videos should get a release. I believe we’re moving away from simply standalone recordings, since there’s a lot that can’t be adequetly represented that way (release dates, labels, video thumbnails, and more)

This is the main reason why I started to add releases for them. And now I have ~200 recordings like that one given in the example above.

> [@UltimateRiff](#):
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> that said, it’s of course not _required_

This is so strange for me in MB. The main benefit of DBs is structuring of the data, but here there are so many fuzzy rules and recommendations, that in many cases you don’t have to follow them, if you don’t want XD

I’m not against to do that, but it is so frustrating that it can’t be made automatically. Every time after adding a video release, I need to open linked recording and to change checkbox to “video” manually. If audio even in video recordings should be added separately, then why if I add video release it can’t be generated automatically too (video + associated with it audio rec). It is not difficult to open in the end 2 tabs with video and audio and add rels. But if I need to add audio recording by me it is much more difficult, cause I need fill all duplicating data from the beginning. The main problem here is not difficulty, but the time I need to waste to do that… just for duplicating almost the same data before I can add sound-specific relationships. Really, it is so OVERCOMPLICATED. Sorry for showing my emotions so openly

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