Wikidata:Property proposal/YouTube Music

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YouTube Music

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

   Not done
Descriptionidentifier for an artist on YouTube Music
RepresentsYouTube Music (Q28404534)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainhuman (Q5), singer (Q177220), record label (Q18127)
Allowed values[0-9A-Za-z_]{2,24}
Example 1Mari Kraimbrery (Q65153800)UCqWcxmaqW_79ftm3r-vuScg
Example 2Svetlana Loboda (Q209926)UCLBA7aDwlEmhgoM1gdrjp1A
Example 3Ariana Grande (Q151892)UC0076UMUgEng8HORUw_MYHA
Sourcehttps://music.youtube.com
Formatter URLhttps://music.youtube.com/channel/$1
See also

Motivation

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Property for YouTube Music. — Calvinn1 (talk) 05:53, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Discussion

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Actually, I have come to the realization that all YouTube Music channels are auto-generated by YouTube from tracks record labels provide to YouTube. I've never come across an artist that has the same YouTube Music channel they release music under and it is their same "primary" YouTube channel. Therefore, I support the property for the utility of distinguishment purposes. User:Lockal and User:Jura1, I'd suggest you change your vote along with me. And additionally, we could have properties for YouTube Music playlists and songs, since they too, are autogenerated. Additionally, we could have properties for YouTube Music playlists and songs, since they too, are autogenerated. Lectrician1 (talk) 11:03, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"all YouTube Music channels are auto-generated by YouTube" is not entirely correct. When artists publish their works, for example, via TuneCore, they can check up to 38 boxes, YouTube Music is just one of them. After that, TuneCore submits composition to YouTube with autogenerated ISRC, efficiently creating an autogenerated channel. Later on artists discover that they have maybe multiple autogenerated channels and may merge them into official channel by passing a specific challenge. Most of artists don't even care to create an official YouTube channel, others don't know about duplicates of autogenerated channels, that's why you don't see merged channels too often. An example of merged channel is [1]==[2]. --Lockal (talk) 11:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Lockal Ah yes, you are right. I didn't know exactly how merging channels worked so thank you!
But... if you search for "Lean Raine" in YouTube Music, it brings you to the same channel, but with a different id.
Then, if you plug in that ID to YouTube's site, you get their Topic channel, even though they're "merged". Kinda crazy right?
I guess this proves that there are still auto-generated channel IDs for artists that have merged their channels... So, there is still a use case for this propery. Lectrician1 (talk) 13:30, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Lockalany response? Lectrician1 (talk) 19:54, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak oppose there is already a formatting hint exists for YouTube Music videos, it looks like: Sandstorm (Q108109258)YouTube video ID (P1651)hQ5ufAE3d7whas characteristic (P1552)YouTube auto-generated video (Q105967840), so that smart client could suggest link to music.youtube.com, instead of youtube.com. As far as I noticed, "Any ID that works on YouTube Music works on YouTube." is correct, indeed, but database is not exactly the same and it does not always works in an opposite way. It is unclear for me, how it works (I just know that there is a checkbox in TuneCore/CDBaby/etc., but haven't seen a similar checkbox on YouTube). For example:
    1. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_10qcSp62Vs is a video of cover track, accidentally available on music.youtube.com (even though supposed to be viewed through https://youtube.com/watch?v=_10qcSp62Vs, because music.youtube.com removes comments, descriptions, publication date, etc.)
    2. https://youtube.com/watch?v=wZYYwCYi6_I (named as "Gangnam Style" - PSY | Live in Korea) - is not available https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wZYYwCYi6_I.
YouTube Music provides generally a worse experience comparing to YouTube, even with ArtTracks due to missing comments section (and publication date, and description, which even for ArtTracks may contain a lot of useful information). So my suggestion is to: 1) mark ArtTracks with P1552 qualifier (so that smart client could suggest links to music.youtube.com), 2) don't bother with marking YouTube videos available on music.youtube.com at all, because YouTube Music provides a degraded experience, as I said earlier. If you are interested in automation, you could invent a new value for P1552 (something like "YouTube Music Video", subclass of music video (Q193977)), indicating that music video is available on both YouTube and YouTube Music, otherwise it is not worth the effort. --Lockal (talk) 10:04, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]