"Topic" Videos, I love 'em, but questions...

Paul Smeenus · 03-31-2016, 02:15 PM

You've probably seen them, there seems to be these "Topic - (fill in artist)" for virtually everything, even notoriously rare out-of-print artists. I give you such an examples here not so much because very many here follow these artists, but to give people a sense of such releases, you'll probably recognize the format:

I've been finding these videos almost every time I want to post to MB or when in Dubtrack (or Plug if you need dancing avatars I s'pose).

I'm so impressed with both the consistently high quality of the audio and the smart-looking clean lines of the appearance of these videos, so much so that I'm completely editing my catalog reviews. I hope that's not a mistake, I'd really hate in if these excellent videos went *poof*. I've put a lot of work on these.

Also, are these artist/label made (they appear to be) or just somebody doing excellent work?

Thoughts?

Paul Smeenus · 03-31-2016, 03:02 PM

Another example

https://youtube.com/channel/UCaGW8SwfliDHfGiaMW3QJ1w

Tristan_Geoff · 03-31-2016, 03:04 PM

It's "auto-generated by Youtube" according to the descriptions, whatever that means. I've found them to be rather iffy though. I'll come back to find entire artist's discogs blanked out saying "video unavailable in your country". I'd like to find a page by Youtube explaining it all because they seemingly popped out of nowhere a few years ago.

Tristan_Geoff · 03-31-2016, 03:10 PM

I suppose at some point Youtube might make it into a monetary thing and cracking down on the full albums uploads, so I refrain from using them whenever possible. Also, I sometimes run into videos with incorrect track times, so like half the song is chopped off.

Anyways, not looking forward to what this turns into.

Paul Smeenus · 03-31-2016, 03:15 PM

^ not what I was hoping to hear

They are all working for me here in the US, fwiw

Tristan_Geoff · 03-31-2016, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

^ not what I was hoping to hear

They are all working for me here in the US, fwiw

I am in the US :/

Paul Smeenus · 03-31-2016, 03:22 PM

The thought slickens...

Paul Smeenus · 04-02-2016, 01:20 PM

I may have stumbled upon a clue

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2579942?hl=en