Accepted videos, in order of preference:
- Official videos of the same recording as the database entry
- Published by the official Youtube channel of the artist
- Published by the official Youtube channel of the label
- Autogenerated clips by Youtube, generally in the ''Artist - Topic'' format
- Non-official videos of the same recording as the database entry
- Additional criteria of preference:
- Available for the widest audience(*)
- Footage of official video-clip, f.e. broadcasted on MTV in the 80s and 90s
- Autogen video
- Additional criteria of preference:
- Same recording as the database entry, but with small modifications, examples
- With intros that don't belong to the song (owner of the record making a short introduction)
- Medium sound quality (live recording of a LP record player)
- Videos with representative but different recording than the database entry
- A video comment explaining it's not the exact same recording is compulsory.
- Example: Live recording with same band composition and same arrangements
Not accepted videos
- Amateur recordings from live concerts
Comment section
- To be used for the exceptional case when a video is not the exact same recording
- Not to be used for listing other metadata, eg listing the musicians participating in the recording
(*) Determining which video has the widest audience can be tricky. However, if a user reports a video is unavailable in his country, and suggests another one that is available to him and also to you, then chances are high the latter is available to a wider audience than the former.
Non-autogenerated or autogenerated Youtube videos (Deadline August 5th 2019)